bats, ozone, spelling, and an invasion

Today I think I learned by reading the comments on this article that there are some cavers who got themselves banned from Colossal Cave Park and then tried to get the park in trouble for planning a trail that ended up too close to caves of endangered bats. Unfortunately, the reporter had an ax to grind with the county, so he blamed it on the county, and the bats are going to be fine anyway because they'll be asleep when anybody goes by. And that piece of trail was probably already there. I think.

I was expecting the usual 'the county is incompetent,' 'save the animals,' and 'screw the animals, they probably came up from Mexico illegally anyway' comments we usually get around here, so to get stuff that sounds like actual information is pretty interesting.

In other news, I just discovered this nifty new (new to me, anyway) ozone map. Ozone season is starting here, mostly because California's ozone and precursors are blowing over here. The trick that makes this page interesting is pushing the 'enhanced' button.

Also, 'ax' is better than 'axe' because we don't keep the extra 'e' on flaxe and all those other words that used to have e's on them, according to Webster's. They figure that we, the people who write English, should attempt to be consistent on something.

And last but not least, Sark, one of the Channel Islands between England and France, was invaded in 1991 by an unemployed French nuclear physicist, who got jumped by the fire brigade after the constable distracted him by asking about his automatic rifle.