First, I want to say that we should not forget that this was a horrific event, and that I’m sure we all mourn for the dead and their families.A fellow blogger in the science and technology world lost a close friend in this shooting, and has written about it here.Now, I want to ask two difficult questions. Continue reading The Omaha Shooting
Yearly Archives: 2007
Creationists Can be So Funny
There was a time, not so long ago, when you could “Google” the terms “Greg Laden” and “Idiot” and get, well, besides the several thousand hits about me being an idiot and stuff, an Amazon.com page for “The Idiot’s Guide to Human Prehistory by Greg Laden”This is a book I never wrote. But the publishers wanted me to. However, there were complications. The first complication was that I found out (from an excellent source) that the owner of the company had “a problem” with evolution, and I came to believe it was likely that certain things would be changed prior to publication. In particular, the word “evolution” was not going to appear in the title. And so on…. Continue reading Creationists Can be So Funny
Don’t make me spit up formula on you…
No babies were harmed during the filming of this True Documentary:[Totally stolen from Tangled Up in Blue Guy]… Blue Guy has links to another movie in the same genre….
Everybody needs to do this: Learn the Greek Alphabet
Also, know how to pronounce “primer” properly….Hint: Skip ahead to minute two.Omega looks like something I once saw on a button on a toilet in Japan.
Tangled Bank # 94
The web carnival …. is here, at Life Before Death.
Why is Linux Better?
In 200 6, Greg Kroah Hartman, a well known Linux Kernel expert, as able to declare that the following statement:
“Plug and Play in Linux is Still not at the Windows Level”
was not only incorrect, but that this statement:
“Linux supports more devices “out of the box” than any other operating system ever has”
If this is true, than why is it that people don’t know this? Continue reading Why is Linux Better?
Let’s Hear it for The Listening Project
Do you live in the Twin Cities Area? Are you doing anything next Thursday, December 13th at about 7.30PM?Come and see the film The Listening Project
Born in Philadephia, reared in the Bay Area and schooled by his lifelong addiction to world travel, Twin Cities-based filmmaker Dominic Howes has spent the last 10 years trying to get accustomed to Minnesota winters — and says he’s still trying.But Howes admits that ice and cold are nothing compared to the dangers of “land mines and insurgent forces” in Afghanistan, one of 14 countries he and Rikshaw Films partner Joel Weber visited last year for their documentary, “The Listening Project.” (The screening will be Thursday, Dec. 13 at Oak Street Cinema in Minneapolis as part of the “Fearless Filmmakers” series.)”My American-ness has always been a subject of conversation in my travels whether I wanted it to be or not,” says Howes, for whom “The Listening Project” afforded an opportunity to capture that subject on digital video. Funded and conceived by executive producer and philanthropist Jim Pohlad, the documentary collects the opinions of dozens of people around the world — from Afghanistan to South Africa, China, Israel and Palestine. All are asked, “What do you think of America?” *
Sandra Porter may love Macs and PC’s … but Linux is funnier
Sandra,, for your enjoyment:
Transvestite Schoolteacher Tortures Students For Fun
How sick is your sense of humor? Really sick? Good, enjoy the show….
Continue reading Transvestite Schoolteacher Tortures Students For Fun
How To Wiki
This is a useful video to get the point of “wiki” across to, say, the students in your class or a group of coworkers who may not all be on the same page.
StumbleVideo: Michael Shermer comments on John Edward
Scorpion vs. Meerkat
One of the things about doing archaeology in South Africa is that you dig these things up all the time:(Scorpians, not meerkats)
Legacy of Linnaeus
Also known as Linnaeus’ Legacy (but it occurs to me that one should avoid “‘” in the title of a web blog post) is now at Laelaps, here. This is a new blog carnival, and a really good one. Enjoy!And, if you are thinking of submitting something to this web carnival for next month, please do so, by submitting them to moiDamn you, Laelaps, you used the Darwin Graphic I was gonna use!!!!
New Biblical Documentary
PZ Myers bagged this hysterical video on the Garden of Eden’s family reunion. Here. A must see.
OK, I’ll see you one and raise you one:
(I never really thought about it before, but GI Joe kinda is a clothes horse, isn’t he?)
Minnesota has its quirks
And some are very very annoying. We had crazy Christians running around last year putting up anti-Evolution billboards. Now, this:
Running right through the heart of the Twin Cities is a spiritual road that dozens of evangelical churches say is specifically mentioned in the Bible as the “Way of Holiness.” They call it the “Highway of Holiness.” Others call it Interstate 35.
Evangelicals throughout the Midwest… have been praying at 24-hour prayer rooms for a month for Interstate 35 in order to “light the highway.” Young people in the movement have been holding “purity sieges” in front of LGBT businesses, abortion clinics and stores that sell pornography. So far, Minnesota has been spared of “purity sieges,” but 24-hour prayer rooms have been set up in Minneapolis, Albert Lea and Duluth.
The scriptural basis for the new movement comes from Isaiah 35:8, which reads, “And a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not journey on it; it will be for those who walk in that Way; wicked fools will not go about on it.” Because of chapter 35, believers say the highway mentioned must be Interstate 35. In addition, a number of people in the “Highway of Holiness” movement claim to have had prophetic experiences that involve Interstate 35.
Wow. Read all about it here…