It's the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth.

It's also 150 years since the publication of "On the Origin of Species", arguably the most important scientific book ever written about the life sciences.

Celebrate!

If you use the internet, this may be of interest to you.

(Talk about a precisely targeted audience...)

SaveOurNet.ca

Yes, this is the first "quote of the day" in years... but some quotes really do deserve days ( Read more... )

Unpleasant factoid 1401...

If you enable javascript while entering a posting in LJ to see if, for example, there is an option to spell check your post, it redraws the page and ERASES EVERYTHING YOU HAVE ENTERED!

Stupid design.

Irked! Why isn't irked a mood option?

It's over!

Less than six weeks, and we put that election to bed. I don't know how the Americans stand their dragged-out-for-many-months elections.

I never really thought that much about the mechanics of an election. Everything just happened, the way it should. Yes, I was a campaign manager in one, once, but I really only had to worry about one party in one riding, the financial regulations, and the administrative procedures around nomination... not counting running a campaign, which really ( Read more... )

"If DARPA was a Greek god, its temple would surely be located atop the Acropocalypse."

(brought to you after 76 consecutive weeks of musing!)

"Naming a device designed to cut up wounded soldiers after a carrion-eating bird of ill omen seems like an odd call, but there you go."

(referring to a remote controlled surgical unit called Raven)

Yesterday's question on Non-Fluffy Pagans ( Read more... )

Another note for the Microsoft file... something I didn't know.

Apparently windoze (Win 2K Professional) will allow you to create a file with a name it dislike so much that it will neither allow you to rename it, nor delete it.

As soon as I finish moving my data to a safer place, I'm taking a Linux disk and housecleaning.

DIE FILE, DIE!