Yet another meta thingie for your meta amusement.
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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Star Wars redone by Hello Kitty
I’m not sure how good this is, but if you are a Star Wars Geek you are obligated to watch it and complain about it.
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Science proves that God created everything out of nothing.
Accoring to Aubrea Wagner, the 17 year old winner of the Christian World View essay contest in which students were asked to write an essay on the following theme:
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The ‘Plastiki’ Expedition
Plastic in the oceans is probably a problem, but it is probably not the problem you think it is.
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Court rules against vaccine-autism claims
Vaccines that contain a mercury-based preservative called thimerosal cannot cause autism on their own, a special U.S. court ruled on Friday, dealing one more blow to parents seeking to blame vaccines for their children’s illness.
Do you think references to God on U.S. currency and in the Pledge of Allegiance violate the constitutional separation of church and state?
hat tip: Jafsica
Westboro Church Pwned
Have a nice day, pervert … Bwahahahahahah!!!!!
Texas Approves Right Wing Curriculum Revisions
After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American capitalism, questioning the Founding Fathers’ commitment to a purely secular government and presenting Republican political philosophies in a more positive light.
How Thalidomide causes birth defects
A current study in Science from the Tokyo Institute of Technology seems to demonstrate how Thalidomide causes birth defects. Here’s the abstract from the paper:
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Texas Textbook Controversy on Nightline
Fundamentalist Christian dentist promotes drastic curriculum change.
Click here then click “Texas Textbook Controversy part way down the middle column.
Teh Gay Ruins Mississippi Prom
A lesbian student wanted to wear a tuxedo and accompany her girlfriend to the prom in a Northern Mississippi school district. Chaos ensued. It turns out that Itawamba County school district has an explicit policy requiring that senior prom dates be of the opposite sex. (This is the same school district that got in trouble some years back for intercom-led prayer and bible sessions.)
The AClU dove in. The school district canceled the prom but refuses to say exactly why.
So, look for a private non-school related anti-gay prom-like “event” to occur in Itawamba County this spring.
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“every pissed-off blogger we get on the interweb brings us one step closer to the meaning of life.”
In which the Isis and Zuska Tag Team takes down Laden (temporarily) and a free for all breaks out on the blogosphere.
Is this another intrablogule iron cage death match? No, it’s the real thing! In cartoon form….
Finally, your jet pack is ready.
It’s been a long time coming. While Arthur C. Clarke’s satellites have taken to space, and James Bond’s futuristic mobile technology has become common place, still the dream of sustained personal flight has eluded us. But the future is here! Finally we can all take flight as Martin Aircraft in New Zealand releases the first commercially-available jet pack!
What’s wrong with Basic?
I have yet to see a computer language that offers anything not available in Basic, in so far as the language itself goes. But Basic has been maligned as the ruination of computer coding. There is an alternative opinion out there.