Mar 17 2010
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“ When I asked what the difference was between a religion and a cult, someone replied “a good accountant”.
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“ Isn’t atheism just another religion? No. A religion believes in supernatural power. Sure, Dawkins is super and natural - but he’s not supernatural.
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Whales Dying in Record Numbers Near Argentina
Southern right whales, frequent visitors to Oz, are dying in record numbers along Argentina’s Patagonian coast. Since 2005 a total of 308 dead whales have been recorded, 85% of which were calves less than 3 months old.
So far nobody knows why whales are dying in such numbers.
Trivia: the southern right whale is so named because when whaling was legal in Australian waters it was the “right” whale to kill.
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Texting From Beyond The Grave
In the “olden days” all that you could leave on a headstone was a few basic facts; name, date of birth, date of death, and the names a few who survived you.
Now you can get a headstone that can text your entire life history
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LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
A classic that will never get old.
Mar 13 2010
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“ If the earliest Cro-Magnons had left accounts of their gripes, I’m sure they would have included how the kids these days don’t know how to tie a stone axe to a good handle, and how these kids don’t appreciate how hard it was to hunt mammoths back in the old days before the spearthrower was invented.
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Review: Guyland @ Yes Means Yes Blog (via notemily)
“You kids don’t know how good you’ve got it! When I was your age we didn’t have home computers, xboxes, and the web wasn’t even invented.” Me to my kids last week …
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Why Seawater Isn’t the Answer to the Lithium Squeeze
Seawater: It offered the Ancient Mariner not a drop to drink, but plenty of scientists and entrepreneurs have ideas for how to use the salty stuff for green technologies. Some aim to desalinate it with high-tech membranesto produce fresh drinking water, while others envision it providing irrigation for salt-loving plants to be used as feedstock for biofuels. Add to the listSouth Korea’s ambitious plan, reported Tuesday by the Financial Times, to collect lithium from sea water for electric car batteries.
You can also extract uranium from seawater too.
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Keyboard problems
I’m having problems with my wireless keyboard and my Linux system. One or the other is dropping letters as I type. And I’m not picking up on all the times this happens. So if you repost any of my postings please feel free to fix up any obvious typo’s. It’s kind of embarrassing like “pubic” instead of “public”…
