The spurt in evolution is similar to the rise of mammals after the extinction of dinosaurs. Mammals, no larger than small dogs during the age of dinosaurs, diversified into tigers, elephants, whales and people after the reptilian competition died away.

The success of the dinosaurs after the Triassic-Jurassic extinction may be why they did not survive the second extinction.

"Small animals always do better in catastrophic situations," Dr. Olsen said, "because they can survive on smaller amounts of food."

He also pointed out that scientists now believe the small dinosaurs did survive. "We just call them birds," he said.

I'm a evolution buff (is that a real word?) who finds discoveries like this totally fascinating.

  10:31:26 AM    

"You set it up to check you mail and it will download it, and organize and index it all. You can then access it through you browser from any machine and search your mail for any topic you need info on."

After Monday, we'll be using a always on satellite connection to the internet. I can hardly wait.  I intend to make use of tools like this Zoe to access data on my home PC from anywhere I can gain browser access.  Also on the list is Radio (of course) as well as some kind of family-oriented portal.

  10:03:05 AM    

"For the last couple of weeks I've been using MegaWiki on my palm m505. For all you palm users out there that haven't tried it, you should. Why you ask? Let me give you an example of how it use it."

I loaded MegaWiki on my Palm III not too long ago, but never really gave it a fair trial.

At the time I was thinking of using it more along the lines of an offline blog like tool.  I see now that it has much more potential.  I'll have to give it a more detailed look.

  9:57:07 AM