So my boyfriend is running late for work and asks me to get his bike from the repair shop down the street. He borrows my bike and I find the store hasn't even started repairing his tire. So I walk back, coming to the island in the other main road which forms a major intersection one street away from my house. As me and another guy talking on a ( Read more... )

It's been said before, but I wish I wrote more often in my journal. I could tell you all about my trip to Barcelona or ask for addresses to mail Xmas resents to (this year, I only bought one present, for my boyfriend) But here's a quick meme for the holidays ( Read more... )

Behe's basic problem with evolution in Darwin's Black Box is a biochemical version of the argument from design: many cellular systems are irreducibly complex such that they could not have evolved because to be missing a part would mean that the system would be nonfunctional. Thus he draws the analogy of a moustrap which if it were designed missing ( Read more... )

The cynical truth about technological innovation in America.
guilty confession: it's more fun to watch good players play a video game than try to fumble through an learning curve yourself
i want my jetpack: somehow today's concept hybrid cars can't match the nuclear-powered MPG of the 1958 Ford Nucleon.
This says that there are only 13 main or root ( Read more... )

but instead i saw this childhood memory questionnaire:
1. What was the first car your family had ( Read more... )

Sulu is gay!...and all these years gay trekkies like my boyfriend never knew there were gay people in the 24th century...

You Passed the US Citizenship Test
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and people like Arianna Huffington are talking about the presidential election. The desperation and horror of the current office holder provoking the most media-worthy story of the impending showdown between Condi and Hillary. Ugh...Right now people are looking for the anti-Hillary: a clean-shaven and articulate Al Gore, the New Nixon; John Kerry ( Read more... )

South Korean scientists cloned a dog recently, which is noted to be 'one of the hardest animals to clone'. This was in the same week that the president said we should mislead schoolchildren as to the truth about random selection and mutation being the creators of life. This has many ramifications, other than begging the question: What's more ( Read more... )

I'm so sick of the misleading story I keep hearing about how two girls and a guy got 'married' in Belgium last week, thereby launching a million 'slippery slope' articles about how polygamy naturally follows from legalizing gay marriage. Bullshit. If anybody who heard of this could read Dutch or knew a thing about contract and marriage law here ( Read more... )