December 8, 2007
With all the recent news about dinosaurs, I thought you'd like to see a video of actual dinosaurs:
December 8, 2007
The question is, which street? I mean, that is quite a difficult question.
Which ... street ... should ... be ... named ... for ... Douglas ... Adams.
(That was me thinking very carefully.)
What is the ANSWER to this most difficult and intriguing question....
Well, as you know, I have a…
December 8, 2007
From this blog at harpers.org, yesterday:
I'm not sure if Secretary of the Commerce Carlos Gutierrez is cheap or cuckoo, but it comes as something of a shock to learn that the controversial book The Atlas of Creation is prominently displayed in the waiting room to his office. Written by the Turkish…
December 8, 2007
Google.org director Larry Brilliant uses a clip from an old Frank Capra movie to show that we've known about global warming for 50 years -- yet in half a century, we've done almost nothing to solve it. He explores this and other megatrends that could inspire pessimism. But, he says, there is a more…
December 8, 2007
Coturnix points out that the following video of Dan Abrams speaking with two women about sex among teenagers is a good example of reporting about a scientific issue mired in a political quagmire.
Keywords and phrases:
Well, what that study actually reveals is...
Well, in a number of cases....
The…
December 8, 2007
I know all my fellow bloggers are jealous about my Linux calendar posts (like this one) and normally I don't reveal my secrets. But this is so cool I have to share it.
The Linux calendar command (in the terminal window) puts out, by default, a listing of events, etc. from today and tomorrow.…
December 8, 2007
Don't Forget: The Listening Project, December 13, at the Oak Street Cinema!
The City of St Paul is a Free Speech Zone
Some inside info on the upcoming Republican National Convention from our own blogospheric correspondent on the East Side...
I have deep roots in the East Side of St. Paul. It is…
December 8, 2007
The Rev. Michael Dowd is preaching a surprising message: Evolution is real and science points to the existence of God.
For the last five years, the author and former evangelical pastor has lived out of a van with his wife, crisscrossing the nation to deliver the good news.
His latest book, Thank…
December 8, 2007
The School Board for Rio Rancho, New Mexico has rescinded "Policy 401" which is said to have supported the teaching of creationism. Let's have a look.
I managed to grab a copy of the policy from the Rio Rancho Public Schools web site ... presumably it will disappear shortly:
The Rio Rancho Board…
December 8, 2007
Dec 08
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) born in Venosa (Italy), 65BC
Dec 08
James (Grover) Thurber born in Columbus, Ohio, 1894
Dec 08
First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965
Dec 08
Blessing of the Water in Uruguay
Dec 08
Mother's Day in Panama
Dec 08…
December 8, 2007
... or a cult.... But really, aren't they all cults?
Germany's federal and state interior ministers have declared the Church of Scientology unconstitutional, clearing the way for a possible ban.
The ministers have asked Germany's domestic intelligence agency to examine whether the Church's legal…
December 7, 2007
Praise Nothin' We're in the Age o' Reason, Brother!
Foot worship?
[hat tip: Spanish Inquisitor]
December 7, 2007
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has said teachers who refuse younger students access to the site are "bad educators".
Speaking at the Online Information conference at London's Olympia, he played down the long-running controversy over the site's authority.
He said young students should be able to…
December 7, 2007
Another round of heavy artillery launched in the War on Christmas. It's a hit!
[hattip: PZ Myers]
December 7, 2007
He was saved by creation science. But a little too late, like, it happened after he became a vicious cannibal.
December 7, 2007
Click to see the video
December 7, 2007
[Hattip: geekology]
December 7, 2007
There has been a lot of interesting discussion on the benefits and negatives of a stable API on this thread, with good points being made on both sides. If you don't know or care what that is about, then just move along, nothing to see here...
But if you are interested, Greg Kroah-Hartman (an…
December 7, 2007
First, I want to say that we should not forget that this was a horrific event, and that I'm sure we all mourn for the dead and their families.
A fellow blogger in the science and technology world lost a close friend in this shooting, and has written about it here.
Now, I want to ask two difficult…
December 7, 2007
There was a time, not so long ago, when you could "Google" the terms "Greg Laden" and "Idiot" and get, well, besides the several thousand hits about me being an idiot and stuff, an Amazon.com page for "The Idiot's Guide to Human Prehistory by Greg Laden"
This is a book I never wrote. But the…
December 7, 2007
No babies were harmed during the filming of this True Documentary:
Good Cop, Baby Cop on FunnyOrDie.com
[Totally stolen from Tangled Up in Blue Guy]
... Blue Guy has links to another movie in the same genre....
December 7, 2007
Also, know how to pronounce "primer" properly....
Hint: Skip ahead to minute two.
Omega looks like something I once saw on a button on a toilet in Japan.
December 7, 2007
The web carnival .... is here, at Life Before Death.
December 7, 2007
In 200 6, Greg Kroah Hartman, a well known Linux Kernel expert, as able to declare that the following statement:
"Plug and Play in Linux is Still not at the Windows Level"
was not only incorrect, but that this statement:
"Linux supports more devices "out of the box" than any other operating system…
December 6, 2007
Do you live in the Twin Cities Area? Are you doing anything next Thursday, December 13th at about 7.30PM?
Come and see the film The Listening Project
Born in Philadephia, reared in the Bay Area and schooled by his lifelong addiction to world travel, Twin Cities-based filmmaker Dominic Howes has…
