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[zarq]

255 old comments in Gmail this morning, but of course, none from the last 3 days. So if you find me responding to something you posted during the Bronze Age but not this morning, that’s why.

Miscellany
Flash Games: RSVP and Sober Santa (Santa is via wicked_wish)

Mediasite.com links to expert presentations on a variety of topics.

An Extensive Google

Comments

[6_bleen_7]

Alas, Adams has used his Dilbert blog to disseminate some huge misconceptions about evolution and science in general.

[zarq]

*grumble* Didn't realize he was so clueless. :( I've downloaded his free book. Haven't started it yet, but now I assume it's similar twaddle.

Have edited the entry with the Pharyngula link and credited you. Thanks very much for pointing this out!

[6_bleen_7]

You're welcome!

[drjon]

As best I've been able to tell, Pharyngula is the wally - not only does he deliberately misinterpret Adams' arguments, he misinterprets Adams' position.

To me, it looks like Adams is *not* speaking in defense of ID, btw. He's taking a fortean approach to the current debate. He's earned emnity because he's not automatically taken the Evolutionist "side", and I suspect given he's a favourite of technophiles everywhere, there's a large sense that he's betrayed them.

His book is again a fortean look at some current scientific understandings, and where there might be flaws in those understandings. It is a philosophical work, not a scientific one, and does not deserve to be called twaddle.

To all of this, I must add the rider that I've not yet been able to devote the time to read everything I should have.

[jlygrnmigt]

Oh, but the Red Crystal could be a Wiccan symbol.

[zarq]

It could? That's pretty funny.

What is the symbolism?

[jlygrnmigt]

I just remember being really into crystals when I was a "wiccan" teenager.

[zarq]

I wonder how the Muslim extremists who are offended by a Magen David would feel about Wicca. :)

[jenmcd]

I love that RSVP game, but I can't get it to work in Firefox. *grumble*

[zarq]

*smacks your computer for you*

It does work in Safari on the mac.

[mycroftxxx]

I'm trying to imagine a romance-starved overcaffinated Coke Blak future. With everyone vibrating at moderate frequency, mathematics becomes an important part of dating.

"Sorry. Can'tDateYouTim. ResonanceBetweenUsWillcauseHemoragingWithinTwelveMinutesofForeplay."

[lafinjack]

Has too many periods. B-

[zarq]

*laughs* :D

[helenabucket]

"An interview with Elie Wiesel"

I haven't read the article yet, but I should let you know that my own stepdaughter has read "Night" by Wiesel twice, and it pretty much messed her up. Thank goodness, because that's what it was supposed to do.

When she was a little, little girl, she toured an MLK exhibit at the museum where I work, and she came home appalled: when I asked her about what White people used to do to Black people, she slapped her own face (hard!) and yelled, "Bad us! Bad us!"

When I ask her about Anne Frank or the Shoah, her response is always, "Never again!"

The last two things I have to do before I can let her go to college are to let her meet our rabbi and to let her meet our community's Imam.

Whew! I'm almost done as a parent.