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News just in, the people of Kansas are officially stuffed.

“It gets rid of a lot of dogma that’s being taught in the classroom today,” said board member John Bacon, an Olathe Republican.

These people really have no sense of humour, do they?

I’d like to bring something my friend Ian has to say on the matter:

Personally I don’t see the the problem creationists have with evolution, the
whole seven day thing does not necessarily mean 24 of our earth hours, since God resides in Heaven, and I do not believe the bible specifies whether or not Heaven is subject to solar orbit.

If God chose to make ‘Man’ by making a small tube worm and a physical environment that will cause that worm to evolve over millions of solar cycles (6 days in Heaven) into an awkard bipedal organism with a tendency towards violent and irrational behaviour, then God created man. It’s a bit like ‘creating’ a cake; you put some stuff (eggs, flour) together and pop it in a specially created physical environment (a nice hot oven). Without the cooking bit, you haven’t created a cake, similarly without the evolvotion bit God wouldn’t have made man.

(Not, you understand, that I agree with the above paragraphs, but they are an interesting thought)

In a shocking followup to It Plays Doom - Quake Reloaded: Quake - in Flash!

And other stupid molecules.

On my cat.
Ta Doug

Although $1,500 power cables (for example) weren’t top of my list, I have to say.

In response to criticism, Sony BMG said it would provide tools to users and security firms that would reveal the hidden files.

This is a very technical article that most will unfortunately not read, but… What it describes is how First 4 Internet’s XCP technology (currently in use on at least Sony and EMI CDs to my knowledge, perhaps more) installs software on your machine that you don’t know about, that uses Virus technology to hide itself from you and that you have no way of uninstalling. It is illegal to do this in the UK (not sure about the US). I know why they’re doing it - by not hiding it from users perhaps we will find it and circumvent their DRM - but it is absolutely no excuse. Particularly because it shows up when you run a Root Kit scan and kills your computer if you delete it. In other words if you play a Sony CD and later scan your machine for malicious software and clean up anything you find your computer will stop working - all down to Sony’s desperation to stop you ripping a CD. They’re really in danger of law suits….

Any parent (owner, keeper, warden, whatever) of a toddler will know exactly how crushingly stupid Daylight Saving Time is. I hated it before I had kids. Now it actually damages my health.