June 15, 2010
What should we do about a case of Internet Identity theft? Here's the story: There is an individual of some reasonable degree of fame. I shall call him Guy-1. There is this other individual who is not famous. Guy-2. Both are similar in many respect, including, as far as I can tell, their…
June 15, 2010
... while you are cleaning your pistol and watching Hulu.
I've been trying to watch this movie staring Klaus Kinski (oh, by the way, when they make my biography, I want Kinsky to play me. Oh, wait, he's dead. OK, he can play the very last scene). Anyway, it's called "Timestalkers" and I'm…
June 15, 2010
Apple® today unveiled a completely redesigned Mac® mini, featuring up to twice the graphics performance, a new HDMI port and a new SD card slot, all in an amazingly compact aluminum enclosure. Mac mini is the world's most energy efficient desktop and starting at $699, is the most affordable way…
June 15, 2010
It's kind of subtle but if you read the words they say carefully, you can hear "kissy kissy" the whole time. Check it out: "Your ... fascinating"
Oh, and please DO leave a comment if you visit their site. That would be funny.
June 15, 2010
I like the idea of an edition of Ubuntu for scientists. I like the idea so much that I wrote a blog post about it a while back.
So I was very pleased to see that there is a project called Ubuntusci that is moving along nicely and that may fill in this niche.
But, when I went to look at the web…
June 14, 2010
Seriously. I am not making this up. Michele Bachmann, the so called "darling of the tea-baggers" (though I'm not sure why she's called that exactly) had done a full 180 on her policies regarding government involvement in stuff. Check it out.
June 14, 2010
It won't always work ...
June 14, 2010
Massimo Pigliucci's new book, "How to Tell Science from Bunk" has a great chapter called "Science in the Courtroom." The National Center for Science Education has arranged for you to have it for free. Click here to download the PDF.
June 14, 2010
in northern Minnesota
June 14, 2010
Well, yes. And some of it is discussed in the book "Evidence of Evolution." You may be interested in this PDF download of a chapter courtesy of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE)
June 14, 2010
I suppose it might be if the hypothesis was very intelligently designed .... But the problem is not just in the question. It's in the presumptions the question relies on. August Berkshire explores the idea here. Please go read this and comment!
June 14, 2010
That is the question being posed at AnswerBlog. I'm not sure what I think of AnswerBlog (they violate one of the prime directives of web design ... stuffing unrequested crap into your clipboard, so I'm reserving judgment), but I thought you might like to address the question .
June 13, 2010
That is the question that South Carolina State Senator Jake "You're a Raghead" Knotts claims that the press should have asked one of his political targets, Nikki Haley. This interesting suggestion ... that the press check out a person's Kristian Kreds ... comes along with Senator Jake the Jerk's…
June 13, 2010
Then watch him squirm as he tries to unadmit it.
June 13, 2010
Many endemic species. Much water. When cattle were first introduced here, they found too little food to survive, so this region has suffered less from that sort of blight than other regions (thus the numerous endemic species, perhaps?)
June 13, 2010
Not a great photo, it was kind of far off:
June 13, 2010
A block quote:
"Foursquare is a little bit of everything--a friend-finder, a local city guide, an interactive mobile game," said company cofounder Dennis Crowley, as if reading from the same tired script used by every one of these Web 2.0 or whatever-the-fuck-they're-called startups. "But more…
June 12, 2010
The rest of the Noah's Ark story:
June 11, 2010
Chapter 11 of Futuyma's book, Evolution, Second Edition, is available for free download as a PDF file HERE, courtesy of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE)
June 11, 2010
The times they are a changin' ... Minnesota Leads in Modernizing Bar Rules: Ladies Night will Be No More.
Today's subversive activity tip: Let's play Disability Bingo.
Scott Gavura on vitamins and Steve Wereley on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
June 11, 2010
The southern end, to be exact:
(Or, so it is called. One could debate the point.)
