Continuing with the strange story of the movie Expelled which I first addressed a couple months back…
The saga of Ben Stein’s Expelled just gets curiouser and curiouser. The back-channel story here deserves to become a movie in its own right. I have collected several links which tell the story (so far) exceedingly well. Here is my suggested […]
02.18Pharyngula
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/
A truly delightful find! I spent this entire evening reading about the hilarious saga of PZ and Expelled (read the responses! esp. #90 :)
Tonight I added pharyngula to my blogroll (in place of the disappointing “The Future and You” which, along with it’s now-weekly podcast, has become very unremarkable).
The root of most disunity in the US, I believe, is firmly grounded in the data shown by this map. Every time I come across this, it never ceases to amaze and amuse. It presents many avenues of analysis, but any careful analysis must first recognize the shortcomings of the data visualization. A couple […]
I first heard of the Flying Spaghetti Monster a couple years ago. He’s back in the news (even local) in a big way: Pasta Monster Gets Academic Attention. Satire, humor, and a very clever and effective argument. I must get a copy of The Gospel (scroll down; don’t miss the posted review ‘One of the […]
I used to generate massive (gigapixel) stitched panoramas using an arcane piece of software called PTAssembler combined with an even more obtuse tool — the workhorse underneath — Panorama Tools. This pair of tools is an amazingly flexible powerhouse; but not for the faint of heart. At HP I had grand visions of creating a […]
Starting a new category: “Only in the USA”. There are a lot of good reasons to like living in the USA. There are many other aspects of life with Uncle Sam that are ridiculous, alarming or downright scary—some of which make me want to run for the nearest border. Many of these, on […]