Monthly Archives: January 2010

BYU has a bio dept. now? Great…

BYU has a bio dept. now? Great to see schools choosing academic integrity over pleasing their sponsors’ beliefs. (Online BIO300 class?)

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Pixies – imaginary friend or i…

Pixies – imaginary friend or invisible friend? discuss…

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People Like to Know in Advance What’s Wrong…

I think advertisers are increasingly realizing that it pays to let people know what they catch of something is or give a reason why they have an incentive to act in your interest. I just saw some cash advance commercial … Continue reading

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http://tinyurl.com/y8cdyak Bus…

http://tinyurl.com/y8cdyak Bush Was a Free Marketer?

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Newscientist: Horizontal and vertical: The evolution of evolution

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527441.500-horizontal-and-vertical-the-evolution-of-evolution.html?full=true&print=true Lately, I’m increasingly thinking, especially after reading this article, that evolutionary computing would benefit greatly from using a more bacterial type of evolution, where genes are shared between often unrelated organisms, rather than brute inheritance. Another way of looking … Continue reading

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Rachel Ray – a woman who copes…

Rachel Ray – a woman who copes with her inability to get pregnant by eating like she is

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Defensive Omnivore Bingo: http…

Defensive Omnivore Bingo: http://hgmonster.tumblr.com/post/250894209

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http://tinyurl.com/yl5db68 Sci…

http://tinyurl.com/yl5db68 Science Fiction important to human species’ survival. I hope, for one, that even more people get scared by 1984

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Thoughts on “Avatar”

Today, I had to see what all the buzz was about. Me and my wife saw Avatar in 3D before she had to go to work. The  3D was a nice effect, but after over two hours of that, I … Continue reading

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“The penchant for kitsch is so…

“The penchant for kitsch is something that gay men and born-again Christians share.” (from Vanity Fair article attacking Creationist museum)

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http://tinyurl.com/ybfsnn9 Ita…

http://tinyurl.com/ybfsnn9 Italian scientists bringing aurochs back from extinction. Will tarpans be next?

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Ah, cabin fever. Wifey’s makin…

Ah, cabin fever. Wifey’s makin’ some vegan spice cake. Woohoo! Too bad the crazies are kicking in and the tortoise is on to me…

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They need to make sports leagu…

They need to make sports leagues where steroids are openly allowed. Think “Miss Artificial Beauty”

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If only the weather wasn’t cra…

If only the weather wasn’t crap and I didn’t have to work I’d so be all over PZ Myers & Santa Barbara right now. Oh well…

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Magick Weapons

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100120/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_military_weapons_bible_passages Wow. Vikings used to carve runes and such into their weapons to give it extra power. Look how far we’ve gone as a people. We now have much more hi-tech weapons to carve spiritual sayings in.

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