Otherwise, I’m running about in Minneapolis, paying another visit to the airport and going to a meeting at UMTC, so talk among yourselves. I’ll be back later.
A comment by M.Petersen got me googling eye beams and the first things that came up were “eye beam monster vs. squid 2” comic and a comic strip called eyebeam:
I think three is the limit for open thread posts? I’ve been censored already 3 times on this blog which is why I haven’t responded to some half a dozen questions directed to me personally. Oh well. Science is Fascism.
jsays
“Science is Fascism.”
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
Zohn Smithsays
Looks like the Kansas preliminary results are in…but the PT site is crawling and deathly slow. Anybody here have an update?
Georgesays
Anyone feel like going over to Brad Blog and saying there was no neocon conspiracy on 9/11?
There’s a raucous crowd of conspiracy theorists hanging out over there, talking about a recent show on C-SPAN.
I added my two cents and they jumped all over me. It’s kinda fun. It’s like being Jason.
thwaitesays
Those are awesome links, in any case. — indeed.
For something entirely different: it seems the business magazine Forbes and its readers have discovered evolution – no longer thrall to George Gilder-like technogurus.
In the current issue:
* there’s a 1-page essay by Stephen Pinker on how Hollywood’s cutesy animal movies are missing great opportunities to popularize evolution
* a letter from a reader berates Forbes for claiming the disease-resistant bacteria in hospitals result from mutations – it’s natural selection, the letter clearly explains, though referring to it as “supernatural selection” – mischievious phrase!
Online for two weeks at http://www.forbes.com/forbes with links there to Letters (“Readers Say”) and Pinker (“On My Mind”).
(Free registration required. And for those of liberal sensibilities, it’s still often prudent to read Forbes from back to front – the opening editorials are antediluvian, like most in the WSJ)
oldhippiesays
I hear the creationists lost big in Kansas elections. Way to go….
quorksays
It’s kinda fun. It’s like being Jason.
So you were jabbering incoherently? Did you accuse them of “painting with a broad brush”?
…
“Whether or not evolution is compatible with faith, science and religion represent two extremely different worldviews, which, if they coexist at all, do so most uncomfortably,” writes Stanford University physicist Leonard Susskind in “Intelligent Thought.”
…
jsays
Who is this Mary Box person who is making so many dumb comments on dead threads?
quork says
Open threads are nice, but once or twice a week ought to be enough.
I’ll bet you’ve never been to Rock City. It’s just outside Minneapolis.
j says
I’ve had a love-hate relationship with Mac/Apple all my life. Right now is a hating stage. I am VERY, VERY FRUSTRATED.
That’s all.
King Aardvark says
My brain hurts.
I’m not getting any work done at the office at all.
Paguroidea says
j – Why the frustration? Can any of us help you out?
j says
Probably not. My iPod is a piece of [insert expletive here].
j says
But that was very kind of you to ask.
complex_field says
Scott
Any news yet from the Dobrichs’ lawyer?
Thanks.
George says
A comment by M.Petersen got me googling eye beams and the first things that came up were “eye beam monster vs. squid 2” comic and a comic strip called eyebeam:
http://www.deviantart.com/view/717703/
http://www.eyebeam.com/toons/e002.jpg
j says
George, you’re kidding, right? Those are awesome links, in any case.
drew hempel says
I think three is the limit for open thread posts? I’ve been censored already 3 times on this blog which is why I haven’t responded to some half a dozen questions directed to me personally. Oh well. Science is Fascism.
j says
“Science is Fascism.”
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
Zohn Smith says
Looks like the Kansas preliminary results are in…but the PT site is crawling and deathly slow. Anybody here have an update?
George says
Anyone feel like going over to Brad Blog and saying there was no neocon conspiracy on 9/11?
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3149
There’s a raucous crowd of conspiracy theorists hanging out over there, talking about a recent show on C-SPAN.
I added my two cents and they jumped all over me. It’s kinda fun. It’s like being Jason.
thwaite says
Those are awesome links, in any case. — indeed.
For something entirely different: it seems the business magazine Forbes and its readers have discovered evolution – no longer thrall to George Gilder-like technogurus.
In the current issue:
* there’s a 1-page essay by Stephen Pinker on how Hollywood’s cutesy animal movies are missing great opportunities to popularize evolution
* a letter from a reader berates Forbes for claiming the disease-resistant bacteria in hospitals result from mutations – it’s natural selection, the letter clearly explains, though referring to it as “supernatural selection” – mischievious phrase!
Online for two weeks at http://www.forbes.com/forbes with links there to Letters (“Readers Say”) and Pinker (“On My Mind”).
(Free registration required. And for those of liberal sensibilities, it’s still often prudent to read Forbes from back to front – the opening editorials are antediluvian, like most in the WSJ)
oldhippie says
I hear the creationists lost big in Kansas elections. Way to go….
quork says
So you were jabbering incoherently? Did you accuse them of “painting with a broad brush”?
quork says
Evidence Of Rapid Evolution Is Found At The Tips Of Chromosomes
quork says
What Would Bacon Do?
quork says
the LATimes reviews books on Darwin, evolution and ID
j says
Who is this Mary Box person who is making so many dumb comments on dead threads?