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Slightly too late for both Darwin Day and Valentine's Day, here's a compilation of 10—perhaps even the top 10—pick-up lines with an evolutionary theme from Skepchick. Kudos to anyone who uses one and bonus points if it works.
When you find yourself emailing a couple of links to enough people it usually turns out that it makes sense to just post it to the Web. That way you can happily assume that everyone has seen the stuff you're linking to, while they can all happily and obliviously move forward with their lives and leave you sitting quietly wibbling to yourself in the corner. Or, as they say, "blogging".
In that spirit, here are two Japanese origami videos on YouTube. One shows in time-lapse the making of a phoenix, the other shows a few models including a couple of dragons. The artist's name is Satoshi Kamiya.
Good news from Bad Science: Gillian McKeith, a.k.a. the Awful Poo Lady, is no longer allowed to call herself a doctor. On the grounds that she's not one, the lying tart. Her "doctorate" was awarded by a non-accredited American correspondence college. From the link:
A regular from my website badscience.net - I can barely contain my pride - took McKeith to the Advertising Standards Authority, complaining about her using the title "doctor" on the basis of a qualification gained by correspondence course from a non-accredited American college. He won.
Is it petty to take pleasure in this? No. McKeith is a menace to the public understanding of science. She seems to misunderstand not nuances, but the most basic aspects of biology - things that a 14-year-old could put her straight on.
Hopefully this won't be the only charlatan exposed by the Advertising Standards Authority's clearly all-too-stringent requirements for truthfulness and substantiation of claims.
Once again XKCD has invaded my brain an stolen my thoughts.
We didn't get any snow today, but other parts of Irelannd and Great Britain did. Here's what Phil at EvilFlea did with his batch (click through for all the pictures):
National Artificial Stupidity Association:
"There's been a lot of attention given to developments in artificial intelligence," Boran explains, "but relatively little emphasis on stupidity. Dumbness is, in many ways, a far more difficult quality to synthesize than intelligence. Human beings has a remarkable capacity for fallacious reasoning, illogical conclusions, and plain ignorance -- traits that are unique to them and alien to conventionally programmed computers. My goal is to generate a program that can accurately simulate the full variety of human stupidities."
Well … damn. I never thought of that. Perhaps he could use some of my co-workers as case studies.
The Morning News' Non-Expert answers a reader's request to explain how to select wine:
Drinking wine is like reading. There are only a select few of us who know how to do it; those of us who do find it boring and disgusting but continue because we think it might impress pretty girls. Many of us even need to do it in order to fall asleep, wake up in the morning, or escape from our loveless marriages, but most of us wouldn't be able to recognize a good bottle of wine or book even if it was being smashed repeatedly against our faces to extort an unpaid gambling debt.
Read the rest for some vinaceous hilarity.
I found a couple of videos on YouTube that demonstrate how to draw superheroes. The first is a bust of Superman, and the second, Batman. The picture of Batman would win in a fight between the two. There are some related links beside each of them, including a very creepy Joker.
There's a brilliant pair of pictures on the Wikipedia talk page for the Rock, Paper, Scissors article depicting the 1939-1945 Rock, Paper, Scissors Championship; Winston Churchill versus Adolf Hitler.
There's an article on the Richard Dawkins Foundation website about the effects of violent video gaming on people's tendency towards emotion versus critical thinking. Thanks to the wonderful way that RishardDawkins.net articles are attributed in their headlines in feed readers, it appears to be titled, "Violent video games leave teenagers emotionally aroused by Radiological Society of North America". What an odd effect.
Please tell me that Dawkins is not jumping on the "videogames bad" band wagon?
The foundation re-posts plenty of stuff that critical thinkers would disagree with. They have posted seemingly every review of The God Delusion, good or bad.
The website is down for a few hours at the moment for a server upgrade, but when it comes back up you'll be able to see the responses the article got from the foundation's members and supporters.
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Mon, 12th Feb 2007 (20:03)