Archives for December 2, 2007
We are Moving Up in the World
Posted by Greg Laden on December 2, 2007 Get a Free Beer [hat tip: Spewing Truth]
Holiday Shopping Tip #1
Posted by Greg Laden on December 2, 2007 A Make It Yourself Merry Molecule Mug.
Be Good to OpenSource
Posted by Greg Laden on December 2, 2007 Ten things you can do to help open source If you’re happy just using open source, then no problem. But if you want to contribute, because you have a problem that nobody else is fixing — or simply because you want to do your bit in exchange — it can be difficult to know where…
Blogospherics: Recommended reads
Posted by Greg Laden on December 2, 2007 Good Math Bad Math wastes litte energy in his discussion of how tend to mangle the laws of thermodynamics. This is a good post to read if you are interested in this issue, from a scientific, mathematical point of view. Or, you can just skip to my favorite paragraph: And so, once again, I wonder……
Cool Stuff in the Blogosphere
Posted by Greg Laden on December 2, 2007 Climate Change Denialism Denied S. Fred Singer has a climate change denialism letter on the Scientific American web site which, in turn, is obliterated by William M. Connolley here, on Stoat. We Have a Plot to Take Over the World!!!!! Actually, it’s the very catchy Pinky & the Brain’s neuroanatomy song here on Neurophilosophy. I…
The Most Polluted River in the World
Posted by Greg Laden on December 2, 2007 Or so it is said:
This sort of appeasement is OK.
Posted by Greg Laden on December 2, 2007 They call themselves “evolutionary evangelists” — an ordained minister and a science writer who travel full time to proclaim the “kick-butt good news” of evolution. They travel in a van decorated with a symbol of their gospel: The popular image of the Jesus fish kissing a bumper-sticker parody of that image — a Darwin fish…
Earth to Kansas … Come in please…
Posted by Greg Laden on December 2, 2007 How many times do the Kansans have to go out of their way to prove to the rest of the world that Kansas is a state populated by morons, psychopaths and mental defectives? Well, OK, I admit, Kansas has no more than the normal share of psychopaths…
Happy Birthday Britney Spears
Posted by Greg Laden on December 2, 2007 Sunday’s Sermon
Posted by Greg Laden on December 2, 2007 Inherit The Wind
OK, just one more for today…
Posted by Greg Laden on December 2, 2007 I can never get enough of this:
Posted by Greg Laden on December 2, 2007 A Blogging Tool
Posted by Greg Laden on December 2, 2007 …. for people interested in writing about Intelligent Design and Creationism. You all know the term “cdesign proponentsists” … a chimera (although its been incorrectly called a missing link) of “Creationists” and “design proponents” … Barbara Forrest’s discovery and one of the key nails in the coffin for the creationists at the Dover Trial. Well,…
Turn on the TV
Posted by Greg Laden on December 2, 2007 Man, the Detroit Lions mus REALLY REALLY SUCK. I think the Vikes have had the ball six times and have gotten six TD’s. Just when I was starting to think that Minnesota does not have real sports teams. Does anybody know if the Lions are any good?
Bush Lets Down Big Business
Posted by Greg Laden on December 2, 2007 A sizable fraction of the international business community launched an effort to press for mandatory cuts in greenhouse gas emissions yesterday, on the eve of a major round of climate negotiations set to begin Monday in Bali. In an unprecedented show of solidarity, leaders from 150 global companies endorsed the idea of a legally binding…
Mainsttream OpEd Slams Hamm and Creation Museum
Posted by Greg Laden on December 2, 2007 The Courier Journal is a regular normal every-day newspaper out of Louisville, Kentucky. James K. Willmot is a normal every-day former science teacher at a Goshen Kentucky school. He works in a lab now in Britain, but he’s from Louisville. The following Op Ed in the Courier-Journal by James Willmot should be sobering for anyone…
Hovind on a Call In Show
Posted by Greg Laden on December 2, 2007 … the fish were terrified ….
Discovery Institute: You’re joking, right?
Posted by Greg Laden on December 2, 2007 Here we have another example of the link between Christian religion, Creationism, and Dishonesty. This time, it is in the post-game analysis of John West’s talk at the University of Minnesota, posted on the Discovery Institutes’s Web Site.
War on Christmas Internet Polls
Posted by Greg Laden on December 2, 2007 Grrl Scientist took one of those crazy on line polls and discovered that she’s a holiday girl. She notes that the answers to the question “What’s your holiday personality?” seems always positive and festive and crap no matter what you answer, and notes “I mean, who wants to be told they are a holiday grinch?”…
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