Various amusing or interesting topics, or things that shock and appall me. Kind of a miscellaneous bin.
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 …
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 …
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. 🙂
Surprise, surprise. 🙂
Very amusing. Take the test and see how well you do!
Interesting… read the first page, then take the test. The results might surprise you.
This has to be an April Fool’s gag — Microsoft would never put anything into the public domain, no matter how minor, and Office (one of its two major cash cows) most especially. But it was fun for the first couple paragraphs.
Politicians that back biometrics (as a way to thwart crime and terrorism) now have reason to be a little terrified themselves: a hacker group has copied the fingerprint of a German politician who has been pushing that technology, and published it in a form that can easily be used to fool fingerprint readers. Fun, fun, …
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Sorry, but I don’t buy it. In my work with compression theory, I learned a lot about probability. If any of these doomsday scenarios were possible, they would have happened somewhere in the universe already — probably a lot of somewheres — and science would have seen some evidence of them. Like most good scientists, …
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If you don’t C-sharp, you’ll B-flat.