January 2010
Human running speeds of 35 to 40 mph may be... →
Bugger! Guess I’ll just give up practicing …
EMP gun to stop car chases →
Eureka Aerospace have developed an electromagnetic pulse gun to help in police car chases. The pulse from the gun is supposed to disable a car’s microprocessor system … no mention of what happens to the perp’s gonads.
Gunsights to lose Bible references →
A US company that has been putting biblical references on its gun-sights has said that they will remove them.
Trijicon, a deeply religious Michigan company that sells military hardware, supplies gun-sights to the US, British, Australian and New Zealand military, has for years put encoded biblical inscriptions on its gun-sights. Now due to criticism from home and abroad their will now supply...
Amazon Opens Kindle To Third Party App Developers →
Amazon will soon release a development kit for the Kindle. Applications written for the Kindle can be sold via Amazon’s online Kindle store. They will be limited to how much bandwidth they can use; applications that require a monthly subscription charge will be allowed to use more bandwidth.
In another move to fight off the yet-to-be-released Apple tablet Amazon is also increasing the...
123456 →
The most popular password used for on-line accounts according to a new study.
As Pretty As A Song →
Congrats to you both!
It took me weeks before I figured out the name wasn’t as PrettyAsaASarong (which also makes sense to me), but I finally got the glasses prescription changed and saw clearly.
To one of the first people who followed me on tumbler I wish you both all the best and much happiness, no advice from this end just play it by ear; when in doubt a sarong might just do the tick.
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MacHomer →
Went to see MacHomer last night with the family. It’s a one man, Canadian comedian Rick Miller, show: a re-imagining of Macbeth with the Simpsons’ characters doing the various roles; all voice by Miller. Hilarious and an amazing performance by Miller. Even my wife, who is not a Simpsons fan, enjoyed it.
“The fact that a believer may be happier than a skeptic is no more to the point...”
– George Bernard Shaw (via amprebel)
597. NOBODY WANTS TO TUMBLRASK YOU THINGS AND EVEN...
phlogiston:
(via gotwisdom)
“I’m perfect. I have all the qualities a woman wants.”
– Goel Ratzon, a Jewish cult leader who has been arrested over ‘enslavement’ of women
“Letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model and the...”
– Rober Hintze, founder of BeautifulPeople.com
BeautifulPeople.com is a social networking site for “attractive” people. Members can vote off people they don’t feel are attractive enough.
“There is no off position on the genius switch.”
– David Letterman (via nechamaelle) (via siddman)
Funny I thought it was called alcohol …
“When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a...”
– Ann Druyan, talking about her dead husband Carl Sagan (via savagemike)
Google threatens to leave China →
Finally Google is threatening to pull out of China. Google is responding to sophisticated computer network attacks originating from China and targeting Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists.
Google is not the only account to come under attack from China. US congressional and industry sources claim that at least 34 companies cam under cyber-attack, including Adobe and possibly Northrop...
“Sedgwick County District Judge Warren Wilbert ruled on Friday that defense...”
– Disappointing Development in the Trial for Tiller - Feministing (via bmckinney)
So if I really believe that CEO’s of power companies aren’t doing anything about climate change and I really believe that climate change is going to result in the deaths of many people than I can shoot the...
Evolution's footprints in human genome precisely... →
We’ve all heard the slogan “We have the fossils, we win”. When in fact the fossil record is one of the weakest forms of evidence we have for evolution.
Don’t get me wrong it’s great that we have any fossils at all, let alone the wealth of them that we do have. But they are still patchy. There are huge gaps in the fossil record, but what there are corroborates all the...
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“Another problem with the new Irish law is that the truth itself is blasphemous....”
– Stephen Marche, ‘Aye, those be slighting words against the Lord:’ Ireland’s blasphemy law (via nationalpost.com)
“The Buddhists say we come back as animals and they refer to them as lesser...”
– Bjork
“The news directors at ABC News presumably have some of the world’s top...”
– Benjamin Radford, “Jenny McCarthy Dismisses Pediatrics Study on Autism” (via Discovery News)
University Sued for Saying Earth Not Created in 6... →
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savagemike:
From the site:
The University of California at Berkeley is being sued for statements on their Understanding Evolution Web site that some religious beliefs contradict science–like the idea that the Earth and living things were finished up in six days. The plaintiffs argue that a government-funded state university cannot claim that “some religious...
