Epsilon Clue

Today marks the first anniversary of this weblog. Yay!

If you’re like most Americans, you probably haven’t read the
Declaration of Independence
in a while, if ever, so you may have forgotten that it includes a
whole laundry list of complaints about king George III of England. It
might be worth rereading some of them:

At my last job, my commute was about an hour each way, on a typical
day. At times I would amuse myself by trying to figure out how much
time I could save if I drove at 70, 75, 80, 85 miles per hour.
Interestingly (or depressingly) enough, it never amounted to more than
ten minutes — and that [...]

Over at the Bad Astronomy weblog,
Blake Stacey
wrote the following,
which is reproduced here with permission:

Come on, we’re scientists, right? How about we break out the mathematics. Just for kicks, I’m gonna model Coulter as a Bernoulli process!

PZ Myers
praises the Episcopalians
for their choice of new presiding bishop.
Congratulations, Dr Jefferts Schori! While I’m not about to join a church, you do exhibit the kind of sensible perspective on the real world I’d like to see much, much more of in religious leaders…
Just for that, I think raptureready.com need to set their
Armageddon clock back [...]

Fundies turn sex into something shameful as a way to control people.

Okay, I know she’s been making shit up all along, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything quite this far out in left field:
In fact, students are actually required to wear “Creationism Is Shameful” T-shirts in Dover, Pa.
(source)
Sorry for feeding the troll.

Over at chez Dembski, the craniorectally inverted DaveScott
writes
As I’ve said many times before, there is only one prop still holding up the NDE [Neo-Darwinian Evolution] narrative and that is the establishment clause of the 1st amendment.
So… isn’t this pretty much an admission that ID is religion?
To give him his due, though, he also wrote:
What Wesley [...]

Let’s say someone develops a reliable test to see whether an embryo is gay[1]. Would you allow abortion in cases of likely gayness?
Variant: what if it turns out that this test can only give meaningful results in the second or third trimester? How would your answer change?

1: Personally, I doubt that a person’s sexual orientation [...]

The
winners of the 2006 Princeton Art of Science competition are online.
Go look! Pretty pictures!