Unbelievable. After 150 years of steadily-accumulated evidence in favor of evolution, we’re still getting garbage like this Expelled movie? Expelled expresses the opinion that the universal support of evolution in the scientific community is the product of some sort of bias or ideological inflexibility. It is, on the contrary, the result of decades of hard [...]
Archive of entries posted on April 2008
Congratulations, Ploni Almoni!
I’d like to be the first to congratulate my friend Ploni Almoni (on the Recyclosphere blog) on his new Mac Mini. Have fun with it, Ploni!
Asus Eee PC 4G
I had been trying to get a look at one of these for months, but no place around here seemed to carry them. I wasn’t too concerned, because I’d planned to wait for a later version of it before I took the plunge. Ah well, “the best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry…” [...]
“Belief-O-Matic — A personality quiz about your religious and spiritual beliefs”
I stumbled across this interesting quiz a few days ago: Even if YOU don’t know what faith you are, Belief-O-Maticâ„¢ knows. Answer 20 questions about your concept of God, the afterlife, human nature, and more, and Belief-O-Maticâ„¢ will tell you what religion (if any) you practice…or ought to consider practicing. Of the religions it listed [...]
“Disintegrating wind turbine caught on camera”
I don’t know what it is about people that makes us enjoy watching a disaster, but here’s a doozy. Note that that turbine measures sixty meters in height. Must have been quite a sight in person. Okay, so I’m a few weeks late on this. Give me a break, I’m catching up.
“Microsoft: Vista feature designed to ‘annoy users’”
Surprise, surprise.
“Prefer Algorithms to Hand-Written Loops”
The title of this post refers to an oft-repeated C++ dictum — one that I’ve resisted for most of my C++ career. I tried doing things that way, several times, but in the end I always went back to hand-written loops. That changed recently; read on to see why, and more importantly, how.
“The Awareness Test”
Very amusing. Take the test and see how well you do!
The Political Compass
Interesting… read the first page, then take the test. The results might surprise you.