Alton Brown was in Midland last night. As entertaining as Good Eats is, he's much funnier in person. If you have the opportunity to see him live, take it. If you have children, take them with you. After a roughly hour-and-a-half show, he spent over an hour answering audience questions and only stopped when the event organizer asked him to wrap ( Read more... )

Apparently, I can't help but believe in God whether I admit it or not. The Bible says so.
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I'm a sucker for Bible software. I have almost as many different kinds of Bible software as I have printed Bibles. In case there's anyone else out there with the same disease, the Mormons sell an interesting one for only $6 including shipping.

It includes the Book of Mormon (of course), but also includes the Doctrine and Covenants, King James ( Read more... )

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I was listening to the archives of the QuackCast and heard a fantastic line that I want to remember:

The plural of "anecdote" is "anecdotes", not "data".

I gave my two week notice today.

Anybody looking for a programmer?

Once again, Creation on the Web is going on about the aliens, but this is even weirder than before. The train of logic in the article amounts to diagnosable mental illness.
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If, like me, you have a rather nerdy sense of humor, you need to read this paper published yesterday in BMC Biology.
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Today's Creation on the Web article is about the dangers of a toy packaged with a Happy Meal. It plays a short clip from a German song about aliens. I was trying to figure out how this could be construed as anticreationist when I hit this line: It seems amazing that a major multinational corporation sees no problem in promoting such ideas to very ( Read more... )

A Christian friend recently mentioned to me that he was intending to try proselytizing some Mormons. Since I generally know the details of the differences between various religous groups, he asked me for some pointers.
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