Online Poll
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010Online polls are:
A reliable gauge of public opinion
Useless
PZ Myers
CmdrTaco
No
Needs more options
Online polls are:
A reliable gauge of public opinion
Useless
PZ Myers
CmdrTaco
No
Needs more options
* Not scientific.
I normally don’t read Denyse O’Leary, because I like Canada too much to taint my mental image of it with her ignorant hackery. But for the past few days, she’s had a series of posts at Happy Dembski’s House of ID Circle-Jerk called about “Access Research Network’s top ten media-related intelligent design stories [...]
Today’s WSJ has an article about the Proposition 8 suit in California:
Defenders of California’s ban on same-sex marriage began making their case Monday, countering the plaintiffs’ argument that gays and lesbians are subject to discrimination.
Which is all well and good until you see the photo that ran next to the article:
So this guy is holding [...]
Never Comes the Day, The Moody Blues
Forever and a Day, The Offspring
One Hundred Years, The Cure
Sixteen Years, Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3
Eleven Years, New Model Army
A Thousand Days, The Offspring
A Thousand Hours, The Cure
One Week, Barenaked Ladies
7 Days, Assemblage 23
In Only Seven Days, Queen
Six Days, The Dead Milkmen
One of These Days, Pink Floyd
The Day [...]
Onion headline, Dec. 22:
Weed Delivery Guy Saves Christmas
Associated Press headline, today:
Search of car turns up gift-wrapped marijuana
I just had an idea for a geeky T-shirt:
In just seven days…
TTTCGCATTCTGGGATTCTCTAGAGCCATCTTGCGCCTCTGATCGCGAGACCACACGATGAATGCGTTCA
TGGGTCGCTTCACTCTATCCTGGACGTTGCCTTTACTGTTTTCTCCCGTTTCACACTGATACTTAGAGTT
ACAGCTTTCAGTGCAAAGGAAGGAAGAGCTTCTCCGGAG
… I can make you a man!
(For those who haven’t memorized the human genome, that’s the SRY gene, which is found on the Y chromosome and makes embryos develop as males.)
(Well, mostly.)
Are You Ready Eddy? – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Ready an’ Willin – Whitesnake
Are You Receiving Me? – XTC
Talking Loud and Clear – Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
So What Happens Now? – Art of Noise
We All Stand – New Order
What Time Is It? – Spin Doctors
10:15 Saturday Night – The Cure
Where are the Prawns? – The [...]
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Slashdot has a story entitled Google Under Fire For Calling Their Language “Go”.
I can certainly understand that: Go has got to be the least-googlable language name since C.
According to James Ussher, the world was created on October 23, 4004 BC.
So happy 6012th birthday, world!