“Lizards Rapidly Evolve After Introduction to Island”
So much for the “you can’t prove evolution because no one can see it happen” argument.
Archive of entries posted on April 2008
“Rep. Monique Davis to atheist Rob Sherman: ‘It’s dangerous for our children to even know that your philosophy exists!'”
This outburst makes me ashamed that I was born in Illinois. Obviously there are some people who still think “freedom of religion” only means that “everyone is free to practice my religion.”
Foul-Mouth Passwords
I stumbled over an interesting article, from a couple years ago, on passwords. The most interesting part, to me, was a pair of statements buried in the text: Cuss words were very popular. Boy, there’s a lot of aggression out there. I was surprised about how many Christian-sounding — for example, “Ilovejesus” — log-on names …
New and improved?
We were on the road today, and stopped for breakfast/lunch. I got an apple juice, and was bemused to notice that the label claimed that it had a “new and improved taste!” Funny, it tasted just like apple juice to me.
Firefox 3 beta 5
I decided to try Firefox 3 today, because Firefox 2 takes well over five seconds to load on my new Eee system. Not a big deal most of the time, but when I’m scanning RSS news articles in Thunderbird and keep seeing articles I want to read, a five second delay for each one gets …
The HandSolo Mobile
This was apparently an April Fool’s joke that I just saw for the first time. After I stopped laughing, I started thinking… it actually sounds like a good idea, at least to a point.
“Mom’s diet may play role in whether baby is boy or girl”
Just an interesting science article.
Safari for Windows… but why?
I was recently discussing the state of computers with a friend, and it occurred to me that there’s no obvious business case for Apple to make their Safari browser available for Windows. It makes sense for them to have their own browser for the Mac, so that they’re not at the mercy of any other …
My Asus Eee 4G odyssey
Well, I’ve had this thing for four days now, and I’ve finally gotten it set up the way I wanted it. The first thing I wanted to do was replace the Xandros Linux on it with Ubuntu, both because I wanted the same set of programs available to me as on my larger systems, and …
stackoverflow.com
Interesting… Joel Spolsky (of Joel on Software fame) and Jeff Atwood (of the Coding Horror programming blog) are getting together to create a free programming Q&A site. Having done my fair share of Internet research on programming topics, I think it’s an excellent idea. Here’s Joel’s announcement, and here’s Jeff’s.