October 23, 2009
The much anticipated Part Three of Jim Hall's exploration of OpenSource ... This is getting really interesting. This collection of posts will be the go-to source for anyone wanting to start an OpenSource project.
Here, on Collective Imagination.
October 23, 2009
It's mole day. The mole day site is down (try it later), but you can find out about it on Wikipedia.
Mole Day is an unofficial holiday celebrated among chemists in North America on October 23, between 6:02 AM and 6:02 PM[1], making the date 6:02 10/23 in the American style of writing dates. The…
October 23, 2009
It is an old story that a vegetarian diet is linked to a more efficient use of resources than a meat-rich diet. One of the reasons cited for this is that meat is taken from a higher level on the food chain, and thus about one tenth of the energy that enters the system is used per culinary unit (…
October 22, 2009
... as in folds Fox over her knee and spanks it.
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October 22, 2009
I never liked Tucker Carlson.
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October 22, 2009
... is doomed.
This is what happens when you (and by "you" I mean the insurance industry") go one step to far in bullying Congress. Even the Republicans turn on you. A little.
Details from Rachel:
... and more ...
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October 22, 2009
I would double my money instantly!
Hat tip: Counter Minds
October 22, 2009
The Minnesota Flu Hotline that I had mentioned earlier is a failure. The state is calling it a "hiccup." Basically, no one can get through because a lot of people are calling in. The local news is reporting that they have yet to get through themselves or to see anyone get through.
Reports are…
October 22, 2009
Map of newly extended certainty of Eurasian Neanderthal range. From Nature
It has for some time been difficult to assess the eastern limit of classic "Neanderthals." Some have claimed that Neanderthals were limited to western Asia, others that they extended across much of Asia. The fossil remains…
October 22, 2009
Surprise! That's the name of a town in Arizona, and that's where the victims in this particular story live. A young Iraqi-American woman was living a very westernized lifestyle, and that lifestyle would not play in Peoria. And by Peoria, I mean Peoria Arizona, where the young woman's crazy "…
October 22, 2009
Peter Tu masterfully crosses face recognition technology, the Naturalistic Fallacy, and engineering in Faces, brains and prairies, oh my.
October 22, 2009
Those of us who live in Minnesota have suspected this for a long time.
It is all visible in the following video. PZ is the one with the two big zeros on his shirt:
The University of Minnesota is apologizing for a bit by its Goldy Gopher mascot poking fun at a praying Penn State football player.…
October 22, 2009
Below the fold is the video of Oprah and her encounter with Atheists.
"So you don't believe in a higher being? ... I'm puzzled. I'm confused. You don't believe in god ...? Maybe you believe in you don't know you believe ... maybe it's more spiritual ..."
Oprah, has anyone ever told you that…
October 22, 2009
"I don't need the Swine Flu vaccine because I already had the Swine Flu when it went around in the 1970s"
Sorry, you do.
While we're on the subject, a couple more:
"I had the mist vaccine for the seasonal flu, so now I have to wait a month to get the H1N1 vaccine"
No you don't. You should not…
October 22, 2009
By now I assume you've experimented with Alpine, as a character-based email client. Well, I have another tip for you.
I have been using alpine almost exclusively for a few weeks now. I switch to Evolution now and then because it is easier to gather groups of emails and move them to storage…
October 22, 2009
He talks about his book, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution. The interviewer is not my favorite interviewer. A public radio interviewer should not even be asking questions about religion and creationism unless doing a story that is explicitly on fringe beliefs. She digs in…
October 22, 2009
OK, ENOUGH OF THIS. KTHXBYE.
[Documentation will be found here.]
October 21, 2009
Twitter had to shut down 33 bogus Twitter accounts that were created by Republicans in the name of Democratic state reps. The plan was to mock the democrats.
Mock THIS, Republicans nincompoops!!!
Details here
Hat tip, Bora's Twitter Stream. ... which for all I know is a total fake…
October 21, 2009
Well, not really. But if you are looking forward to this momentous occasion, have a look at Linux in Exile's pre-release commentary. Here.
JH compares the current Windows 7 release with the Vista release in times of yore.
Tux Radar has a set of benchmarks tests comparing Linux to various…
October 21, 2009
This is for sick people looking for help. It is not a phone number for people with mere questions. Only if you are sick. Not for general questions. Sick only. Got it? OK, here's the number.
Only if you're sick, OK?
1 866 259 4655
October 21, 2009
Hold on a second.... Executive compensation will be reduced in the Pig Seven (the seven companies that split up the multi-deca-billion dollar bailout). The argument is against this is that with lower executive compensation, these executives will bail, go away, move to other companies.
But these…
October 21, 2009
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October 21, 2009
Pamela Ronald, author of Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food, is now a Sbling! She will be blogging at Tomorrow's Table. Welcome Pamela!
October 21, 2009
David Sloan Wilson is famous for his work on group selection, a.k.a. multi-level selection, and it is quite a coup for Seed and Scienceblogs.com that he has joined our ranks. Please visit E4E and say hey.
October 21, 2009
For reasons you need not know, I just did something very odd ... watched about ten minutes of Oprah. And I watched as she sat and had a bite to eat with a table of atheists. Whoa.....
The atheists were Danish women in Copenhagen. They talked about the system of government, economy, social…
October 21, 2009
People say that clinical trials have not been perforemd with H1N1 vaccine, so we can't be sure it is safe. Clinical trials have been performed on the H1N1 vaccine. People say that the inhaled version of the vaccine give you the flu. The inhaled version does not give you the flu. Yes, it is a "…
