Archives for June 28, 2009
Happy Birthday FreeDOS
Posted by Greg Laden on June 28, 2009 DOS stands for Disk Operating System. In the old days it was how you ran your PC. You booted up the computer and you had a prompt much like today’s Linux command line in appearance. If you typed “wp” at the command line, a text-based non-GUI version of WordPerfect would run. If you typed “dir”…
Questions about Missionaries
Posted by Greg Laden on June 28, 2009 As you know, there has been quite a bit of discussion about missionaries in the Congo on this blog. This is the central post pointing to everything else, and at Minnesota Atheists you’ll find a link to today’s radio show on the topic. It turns out that a number of calls and emails did come…
Poor and disadvantaged suffer greatly from poverty-caused neglected diseases
Posted by Greg Laden on June 28, 2009 The best of last June Triatoma infestans, Chagas vector This is the conclusion of a report to be published in the June 2008 PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases journal. The report, by Peter Hotez of George Washington University and the Sabin Vaccine Institute, is a clear indictment of economic disparity in the United States. The bottom…
How Birds Fly (book review)
Posted by Greg Laden on June 28, 2009 previously reviewed Birds: Nature’s Magnificent Flying Machines is a book by Caroline Arnold and illustrated by Patricia Wynne for, I’d say, Pre-Elementary School kids and first/second grade. This is a good book to read to a pre-literate kid. Then put it away for later when the first grade academic report on birds is due ……
Bible Hawkers Arrested at Pride Fest in Minneapolis
Posted by Greg Laden on June 28, 2009 The Minneapolis Gay Pride Fest is the third largest GLBTQFA festival in the country. Of which we are very proud. Which is why we call it the pride festival. Well, yesterday, three people form Hayward Wisconsin, which seems to be in a region that is a hotbed of bible thumping yahooism, were arrested. Previously, these…
The good book
Posted by Greg Laden on June 28, 2009 Whenever I sat at Joseph and Mary’s dinner table, Mary showed a great deal of interest in my work. In between her frequent forays away from the dining room table to get this or that food item, or to issue instructions to a servant, or whatever, she would sit at the table across from me…
We are the World: New Philippines Prisoner M. Jackson Tribute
Posted by Greg Laden on June 28, 2009 Prisoners, nuns, do the wave for Jacko: I concur with BGF’s opinion on this. Except I’ve got to add: When the nuns came out I kind of freaked. Also, as I’ve mentioned before, I totally missed the “we ae the world we are the Coke Commercial” event because I was in the jungle with the…
A blogoversary of note. Adults only.
Posted by Greg Laden on June 28, 2009 Happy Third Blogoversary Janie!
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