I always knew that T-Rex was a vegetarian: "Trying to teach children not to believe everything they see." Shouldn't they add "and believe in everything they don't see?" Update: I should have known Pharnygula would have posted this before me....
Posted on March 24, 2008 7:41 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Coming soon to a desktop near you: Your own digital Jesus. (Someone to hear your prayers. Someone who's there. As much as a collection of bits representing the image of a sheet can be there, I guess that is.) Yeah...
Posted on February 28, 2008 11:17 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
A website dedicated to chronicling the lives, injuries, and money lost due to a lack of critical thinking. Woah. Is it just me or is there is somethink kind of creepy about assembling this kind of website?...
Posted on February 13, 2008 11:41 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
The U.S. presidential candidates been invited to a debate on science. Will they come? I don't know, but the thought of Mike Huckabee using biblical references in discussing science could lead to some very fun sentences. For example, if he...
Posted on February 11, 2008 1:30 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Superexchange in optical lattices, factoring 15 in a linear optics quantum computer, quantum plagarism peaceful resolution, silicon and gallium arsinide quantum computers, and quantum mumbo jumbo in support of the ideas popularly known as God....
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Posted on December 22, 2007 3:33 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Last week Mitt Romney, in a speech on religion, said that "Freedom requires religion, just as religion requires freedom." Or, as I like to put it, "Religion iff Freedom." This bothered me more than a little bit, until I realized...
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Posted on December 14, 2007 1:04 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Dave Bacon is a theoretical ski bum who is also an assistant research professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. His research is on quantum computing, his scientific passions extend to everything in physics, mathematics, computer science and beyond, and his personal pleasures include making wine, playing poker, skiing, camping, and daydreaming (although not all of those at the same time.)
