Gallup poll: Republicans are much more likely than Democrats or Independents to report "excellent" mental health.

Why does this strike me as so funny? Oh, right, because they're also more likely to report that within the next hundred years the universe will actually come to an end, rivers will run with blood, and the sanctified zombie of a Jewish ( Read more... )

...here we go.

Cyclone Sidr is a category 5 storm at present, heading straight for shore. Predicted landfall within 24 hours. It may be only a category 4 by the time it hits land, but it's about to pass over some very warm water on its way in, so we'll see how that turns out.

Katrina was a category 4, folks.

http://public.aregner.com/bubblewrap.swf

Yeah, you heard me. Go poke it.
I always felt a little bit bad about popping real bubble wrap 'cause it rendered it useless. This is just awesome though. Very satisfying noise.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071020/ap_on_en_ot/books_harry_potter

Oh, my God. The fanfiction volume of the Internet is going to double. JK Rowling is AWESOME.

Just discussed "favourite bible verse" with Daniel and we did a bit of quick research in the Greek (and Latin) N.T. to determine that one of the best verses in the Bible is Mark 15:2. As best we could figure, it goes like this (
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So you remember that South Korean scientist who got busted for lying about his stem cell experiments? He claimed he'd successfully cloned human embryos, and everyone got all excited, and then they found out he was lying and he got in all sorts of trouble and disappointed everyone who'd been hoping for stem cell-based medical treatments and whatnot ( Read more... )

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So, an update for anyone who wants to know where I've been lately: I'm in San Francisco for today and tomorrow morning, taking the train from Oakland to Fresno to visit my folks for a few days (Poon is coming tomorrow too). I've been measuring condor bones, part of my summer research project, and am writing this while I should be constructing my ( Read more... )

This is the best game ever. Apologies to those of you on mole-spam 'cause you've seen it already.

Also, I just lost.

Anyone here familiar with the description of Behemoth in Job 40:15-24? It's one of the most frequently cited passages by creationists in favour of the existence of dinosaurs concurrently with humans. Most scholars think it's about an elephant, or maybe a hippo, but verse 17 is cited as evidence against that.

15 Behold now behemoth, which I made with ( Read more... )