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Appendices. Can live with them, can live without them.
Appendix has a job, and Uncommon Descent reminds us that is the last nail in evolution’s coffin. But this is just too funny. In the comments, Mats says:
oh, by the way, needless to say that, if this paper is confirmed, then Darwinists will spin this around and say that this new found function of the [...]
My pocket survival kit
Lifehacker continues its “show us what’s in your…” meme. So, welcome to a guided tour of my pockets.
The Jimi wallet (back pocket). It currently has one debit card, one credit card, a ten-pound note, two business cards, my driving licence and an Oyster card, the RFID-based electronic ticket for the London public transport network. I [...]
Wanna buy a smile?
A recent email I received had a link to Microsoft’s FREE emoticon download site (and yes, they’ve dedicated an entire domain for it, as have millions of others.) A few questions, if I may:
Is this Microsoft’s business plan for Hotmail? If so, should they perhaps consider reading your email, like the smarter companies do?
Who first [...]
Pro-disestablishmentarianism!
Did you know Finland has one of the last state churches in the civilised world? In a country which allegedly promotes freedom of religion, the Evangelical Lutheral Church is the only church mentioned in the Constitution. It has a right to tax people (and even companies!) through the state and it receives tax breaks no [...]
Tubular H₂O and homeopathy
So, Austrian physicists have found an interesting property of water. Anyone care to guess how long until homeopaths try to use this research to justify the ‘memory of water’ effect?
For a good overview of all the latest woo in the subject of the memory of water, this article at Homunculus is an excellent place to [...]
Texas Gunpowder
In the UK, pepper spray is classified as a firearm:
In the United Kingdom, “Any weapon of whatever description designed or adapted for the discharge of any noxious liquid, gas or other thing” is classed as a section 5 firearm (Firearms Act 1968). The same act covers other prohibited weapons such as automatic firearms and rocket [...]
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Marcus Brigstocke’s take on religion
I know I’m hopelessly — like a couple of months — late to post these things, so I won’t even try to come up with a clever excuse. Just treat them as my private bookmarks.
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I’ve got proof, ’cause I believe
Roy Zimmerman is a genius. Via Retrospectacle:
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My added value? The lyrics are here.
Who needs Occam when you have Jesus’ razor?
Halfway There provides a wonderful commentary on the Research Challenge Contest ‘winners’. My favourite quote from one of the papers:
Many evolutionists are recognizing the problems with these theories that attempt to explain cells’ irreducible complexity. An infinitely intelligent Designer must have created these cells. That Creator and Designer is Jesus.
Let me paraphrase.
I don’t know how [...]
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