Archives for December 6, 2007
Let’s Hear it for The Listening Project
Posted by Greg Laden on 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 spent the last 10 years…
Sandra Porter may love Macs and PC’s … but Linux is funnier
Posted by Greg Laden on December 6, 2007 Sandra,, for your enjoyment:
Transvestite Schoolteacher Tortures Students For Fun
Posted by Greg Laden on December 6, 2007 How sick is your sense of humor? Really sick? Good, enjoy the show….
How To Wiki
Posted by Greg Laden on December 6, 2007 This is a useful video to get the point of “wiki” across to, say, the students in your class or a group of coworkers who may not all be on the same page.
StumbleVideo: Michael Shermer comments on John Edward
Posted by Greg Laden on December 6, 2007 Scorpion vs. Meerkat
Posted by Greg Laden on December 6, 2007 One of the things about doing archaeology in South Africa is that you dig these things up all the time: (Scorpians, not meerkats)
Legacy of Linnaeus
Posted by Greg Laden on December 6, 2007 Also known as Linnaeus’ Legacy (but it occurs to me that one should avoid “‘” in the title of a web blog post) is now at Laelaps, here. This is a new blog carnival, and a really good one. Enjoy! And, if you are thinking of submitting something to this web carnival for next month,…
New Biblical Documentary
Posted by Greg Laden on December 6, 2007 PZ Myers bagged this hysterical video on the Garden of Eden’s family reunion. Here. A must see. OK, I’ll see you one and raise you one: (I never really thought about it before, but GI Joe kinda is a clothes horse, isn’t he?)
Minnesota has its quirks
Posted by Greg Laden on December 6, 2007 And some are very very annoying. We had crazy Christians running around last year putting up anti-Evolution billboards. Now, this: Running right through the heart of the Twin Cities is a spiritual road that dozens of evangelical churches say is specifically mentioned in the Bible as the “Way of Holiness.” They call it the “Highway…
Romney Has a Big Tent
Posted by Greg Laden on December 6, 2007 But there is only room in it for Christians. “There are some who may feel that religion is not a matter to be seriously considered in the context of the weighty threats that face us. If so, they are at odds with the nation’s founders…. In John Adams’ words: ‘We have no government armed with…
The White Browed Sparrow Weaver
Posted by Greg Laden on December 6, 2007 Plocepasser mahali (subspecies stentor?) and friends. Kalahari, South Africa.
Talk Radio vs. Islam
Posted by Greg Laden on December 6, 2007 Conservative Radio Talk Show Host Michael Savage is suing the Council on American-Islamic Relations for using a 4-minute bit of his show “The Savage Nation” to raise awareness of his conservative politics among potential advertisers. Savaged called the Queran “a throwback document” and a “book of hate.” I wonder what Savage things of, I don’t…
Are you sick and tired of being abducted again and again?
Posted by Greg Laden on December 6, 2007 The Testimonial: I have been abducted by aliens for years… the Thought Screen Helmet, invented by an expert, has stopped the unwelcome visitations and has raised me and my family`s quality of life. Therefore I highly recommend it. The Product:
Why is Linux Better?
Posted by Greg Laden on December 6, 2007 Better than what you may ask? Better than: -Older versions of LInux … it is always improving. -Windows. Hands down. -Apple’s operating system before Apple chose, essentially, Linux (a Unix variant) to run its eye candy and development environment on But why, specifically, is it better?
Fight! Fight!
Posted by Greg Laden on December 6, 2007 Hey, there’s a fight over at Sandwalk. PZ and Larry are going at it as to how good, or bad, this video is: Click To Play
Uffda… this guy is so dumb
Posted by Greg Laden on December 6, 2007 From Science Notes, from the continuing series “Why do people laugh at creationists” … This is installment number six.
Preaching Eugenics
Posted by Greg Laden on December 6, 2007 Brian Larnder, bless his soul, has written an overview (maybe a book review) of Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement From Brian: … the concept of eugenics found a very welcome home among the christian faithful of the day from the late 19th Century through the first few decades of the 20th…
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