• Mini-Posts - Religion

    SU: The War On Science

    Vidipedia – The web’s first video encyclopedia – War on Science Link to a BBC show called Horizon for an episode called “The War on Science” that covers the Dover School Board’s creationism/intelligent design court case.

  • Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    Mythbusters Needed: Al Qaeda in Iraq (not so much)

    McClatchy: Bush Wrong to Blame Iraq Woes Mainly on Al-Qaeda NEW YORK For the past week, E&P has noted the Bush administration’s rising use of blaming much of the insurgency in Iraq on al-Qaeda operatives. Some news outlets have gone all along with this, others not. We pointed out that McClatchy Newspapers seemed to be questioning this trend.”We cannot attribute all the violence in Iraq to al Qaida,” retired Army Maj. Gen. John Batiste, who commanded the 1st Infantry Division in Iraq before becoming an opponent of Bush’s strategy there, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday. “Al Qaida…

  • Geek Out!

    Boing Boing: Symphony for old IBM mainframe

    Boing Boing: Symphony for old IBM mainframe In 1964, an Icelandic IBM 1401 mainframe engineer figured out how to get the machine to emit beautiful, bassy notes, and composed a symphony for it. Now his son is touring the symphony with interpretive dance thrown in. I’m blogging this for my husband David, who says he’s heard the symphony but may not have heard about the dance video that goes with it. He’s pretty deeply involved with the IBM midrange community, so the backstory may be familiar to him. The dance video is a disappointment; the image above makes it look…