July 7, 2009
It has come to my attention that you may not know how to do it.
Once you practice a while, you will look just like this:
And, if you practice enough you will be able to moonwalk like a ghost:
July 7, 2009
The British Council, a Royally Chartered organization involved in education, has completed a survey which indicates that there is "a broad international consensus of acceptance towards his theory of evolution."
From the press release:
The research, conducted by Ipsos MORI, surveyed over ten…
July 7, 2009
This is indeed very easy to do.
Notice how "sudo gedit" lets you edit special secret powerful files that you should not be messing with.
Remember, Linux is not for everyone.
July 7, 2009
The coffee shop was already loud. The walls, floor, and ceiling of the Caribou are all made of sound-bouncy materials. The equipment behind the counter is loud to begin with and is not muffled by any structure. The barista has developed the typical barista habit of banging shit on other shit as…
July 7, 2009
have puke bag ready
She's speaking here to the Tea Baggers.
HT DMB
July 6, 2009
Nothing is typical. As I'm sitting here in the lobby of the hotel noticing that far fewer than half of the people waking back and forth in this busy hotel are wearing unusual science fiction or fantasy costuming (that will change as the day develops) this ("nothing is typical") is the phrase that…
July 6, 2009
This may not be entirely legal so don't tell anyone where you heard it.
Link to Medibuntu Community Documentation page
Always follow the law. And remember, Linux is not for everyone.
July 6, 2009
Today, Al Franken goes to Washington. And we helped.
Now, it is time to kick his ass.
This is the difference between the dittoheads who will follow the anointed head of the Republican Party into a big pile of dogshit if he so orders them and us. They follow their sens less leaders, they stomp…
July 6, 2009
Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments: All Lab, No Lecture (DIY Science) is a new book by Robert Thompson. The premise is simple. The coolest thing in the world is a home chemistry set like this one from Gilbert, which combined both chemistry and microscopy:
Chemistry Set Combine the…
July 5, 2009
The best of last June
Continuing with our discussion of the Evolution 2008 conference, I was hoping to meet T. Ryan Gregory yesterday. He is listed on the Evolution 2008 program as an author of a talk on genome size. Goodnews/badnews: Gregory did not show, but the talk, given by his coauthor…
July 5, 2009
I recommend not going the dual boot option. Just wipe the Windows install.
But remember: Linux is not for everybody.
July 5, 2009
Organ virtuoso Qi Zhang plays her electric rendering of "Ridiculous Fellows" from Prokofiev's "The Love for Three Oranges" orchestral suite. This exhilarating performance from TEDx USC features the Yamaha Electone Stagea, a rare, imported instrument specially programmed by Qi herself.
July 5, 2009
An oldie but a goodie:
Hat Tip: The Intersection.
July 4, 2009
Using the safe, stable, and sexy live CD:
Remember. Linux is not for everyone.
July 4, 2009
I recommend avoiding dual booting if one or more of your systems is Windows, because Windows does not play nice with other operating systems. But if Windows messed up your booting software (Grub) this is how to fix it.
July 4, 2009
Cats:
Dogs:
Hmmm... don't have one for dogs this week.
Hat Tip: The Millikan Daily
July 4, 2009
Woooo!!!!
Hat Tip: Dump Bachmann where you will find more from Ed.
July 4, 2009
They don't exactly equal each other. But from the perspective of a skeptic, I would like you to consider that belief and blame are very similar. Yesterday at the Skeptics 101 panel at Connie, I heard the fact that not everyone today is already a questioning, thoughtful, intelligent skeptic blamed…
July 3, 2009
Several years ago, I was at a going away party for Bruno. Bruno was a hard core scientist who was being brought into the Biosphere project down in Arizona to get it straightened out after a long period of bad press.
One of the folks at the party was an archaeology graduate student, Ben, who had a…
July 3, 2009
Before they know how pronounce the thing the story is about:
After they know how pronounce the thing the story is about:
July 3, 2009
The best of last June
There is new information from an older idea (from about 2000) by Paul Sherman and colleagues. The idea underlying this research is simple: Symptoms of illnesses may be adaptive. Indeed, this may be true to the extent that we should not call certain things illnesses. Like…
July 3, 2009
Nigeria's state oil company rejected criticism from a leading human rights group Wednesday, calling an Amnesty International report "inaccurate."
"We have issues with the report," said Levi Ajuonoma, a spokesman for Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.
Amnesty said Tuesday that pollution and…
July 3, 2009
There's got to be a good explanation. Either way, somebody's gonna loose themselves a trailer ...
July 3, 2009
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July 3, 2009
The BS continues.
I'm very tied up today with some political issues, practicing my Klingon, and a writing project.
But I still have time to briefly point out what is going on with Bachmann.
Bachamann wants her constituents to believe that if they fill out any details at all on the US census…
July 2, 2009
As I noted several days ago, a temporary change in policy has brought ads for "Mail Order Russian Brides" as well as a number of other ... interesting ... products to the ad spaces on Scienceblogs.com. Since I pointed this out, other Scienceblog bloggers have apparently noticed it as well and…
July 2, 2009
The con, as in this con. The convergence con (known as "connie") is a science fiction convention, and this is the first time I've ever been to one. It is just like such things are depicted in the movies and on TV with one minor exception: On TV and in the movies many of the actors playing Con…
