"The creationists’ fondness for “gaps” in the fossil record is a metaphor for their love of gaps in knowledge generally. Gaps, by default, are filled by God. You don’t know how the nerve impulse works? Good! You don’t understand how memories are laid down in the brain? Excellent! Is photosynthesis a bafflingly complex process? Wonderful! Please don’t go to work on the problem, just give up, and appeal to God. Dear scientist, don’t work on your mysteries. Bring us your mysteries for we can use them. Don’t squander precious ignorance by researching it away. Ignorance is God’s gift to Kansas." - Richard Dawkins, writing for The Sunday Times (UK)
National Geographic has put up a film captured by special video cameras designed to survive a direct hit from a tornado.This video captures a hit from an F4 tornado.Be sure to hit the "direct hit" link. Otherwise, you'll wait 10 mins to watch storm chasers scurry about the road.Watch Video: requires flash
Kerry had a cumulative average of 76 and got four Ds his freshman year
-- in geology, two history courses and political science, The Boston
Globe reported Tuesday.
In other news, some elitist fratboy C-students are hopeful about their future. America shudders.
Hmmph, google is sending me traffic again. The number of visitors per day has increased over 300 percent. Excellent. Perhaps more odd, is finding over 50 e-mail referrers over the past 6 hours. Either I havenew fans, or I am under investigation (god only knows for what). I suppose we'll find out soon enough.
All this talk of traffic strikes some people as egotistical. I'd like to suggest the opposite. One of the problems with the medium of blogging is the fact that you can't really see your visitors. Thus, in order to know who your visitors are, and why they are at your blog, you must check your referrers. Its not egotistical; its being responsive to visitors. I said it. And I'll say it again.
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In other news, my move went splendid, and I now find myself in a place of peace. My last place of residence was what we Austinite hippies call a "rave cave". A rave cave is a place where tribes of potheads come together to intake large regiments of drugs in order to keep their minds off of the terrible smell that they call 'home'. As I am niether a pothead, nor a fan of filth, you can imagine how much I enjoyed their cave. Anyhow, it is over. I thank god for that.
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