Links 11/19/2008
Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are
Then I realized, “Wait, I’m a Mac user. I still have plenty to ramble on about.” The sun of hope peeked over the horizon, and I knew my life had meaning again. :-)
Balmuda Design: NumberKey
I own neither an iPod touch nor an iPhone. If I did, this would be a sure AppStore purchase. It turns either device into a wireless number pad for your MacBook. Since I use my MacBook as my primary computer, I could see how this might be helpful.
The Classic theme is particularly nice.
Live Science: God and Evolution Can Co-exist, Scientist Says
I find this stuff interesting. In this case, Karl W. Giberson, a physics professor, is saying that being a scientist does not necessitate also being an atheist or agnostic. Faith and reason can exist together without one negating the other.
Giberson has rejected fundamentalism, but remains a believer as well as a scientist. He has staked out a middle ground when it comes to the battle between Christians and Darwinists, stating that they can be reconciled with one another. He is sympathetic toward the motivations of creationists and scientists alike, though he is fed up with much of intelligent design as well as hard-core atheists.
Links 04/10/08
When you have for the first time in front of you this 3.1 billion-letter instruction book that conveys all kinds of information and all kinds of mystery about humankind, you can’t survey that going through page after page without a sense of awe. I can’t help but look at those pages and have a vague sense that this is giving me a glimpse of God’s mind.
Francis Collins describes more in his book The Language of God.
TED: Al Gore: New thinking on the climate crisis
Al Gore delivers another fine presentation about climate change and what can be done about it.
Ars Technica - Blogging meets literary analysis: why people read blogs
Many studies have been conducted about why people blog, but I think this topic is far more interesting. What is it about blogs that keep people engaged? I hope more studies like this are conducted in the future.
Londonist - “Rape is Like Being Force-Fed Chocolate Cake” Blogs BNP Official
This is beyond outrageous. Conservative British National Party member Nick Eriksen has this to say about the concept of marital/date rape:
Women enjoy sex, so rape cannot be such a terrible physical ordeal…To suggest that rape, when conducted without violence, is a serious crime is like suggesting force-feeding a woman chocolate cake is a heinous offence.
Then again, this is the same commendable person who has also said this:
Some women are like gongs — they need to be struck regularly.
I can't seem to find out if this guy is married. I'm guessing not.
YouTube - Cheney in 1994 on Iraq
If only he had listened to his own advice later.
Links 02/26/07
Now just give me Majora's Mask, and you may see me trying to hunt a Wii down in the wild.
image from Wikipedia
Apple – iPhone – Hello
If you missed the iPhone ad during the Oscars, here it is available in four sizes.
Breitbart: Scholars Criticize New Jesus Documentary
In 1996, when the BBC aired a short documentary on the same subject, archaeologists challenged the claims. Amos Kloner, the first archaeologist to examine the site, said the idea fails to hold up by archaeological standards but makes for profitable television.
"They just want to get money for it," Kloner said.
Destructoid: Ode to the Extra Life
Where would we be today without extra lives? Follow the above link to a truly moving tribute to one of gaming's most taken-for-granted features.