Kubrick on OPML 
Sweet! SpaziOPML is using a variant of the Kubrick WordPress Template. Now I have something to do on my ferry ride.
Update: It works!
"Intelligent" Design
It doesn't come as any surprise to me that President Bush stated that "intelligent design" should be taught alongside evolution. John Cole, who certainly must look like a traitor to the Republican party due to his position on prisoner abuse and other issues came out swinging:
| I have no problem with a brief fifteen minute discussion of intelligent design as part of a religious/philosophy class, provided schools offer those courses. But I don;t think that is what Bush meant, and to teach intelligent design alongside evolution (which, by itself is difficult enough to teach high school students, and usually isn¹t taught well enough), as a school of thought¹ is simple idiocy. And that won¹t change no matter how many press releases the jackasses at the Discovery Institute release. |
| Maybe Bush just said this to play to the base. I don¹t care. It was stupid, irresponsible, and he should be widely castigated for even suggesting that this be taught. In short, the next time President Bush asks ³Is our children learning,² I know what I will be thinking to myself: |
| "Maybe, but no thanks to you, jackass." |
There are some lively comments on that post as well. Wonkette has the best quote:
| Teaching it as "alternative" to evolution is a little like teaching "magic" as an alternative to physics, which at least would at least explain the president's belief in the missile defense program. |
Via Leiter Reports.
Flickr to Infinity and Beyond
Transfixing Flickr movie.
Blogging Fast
I commented earlier that blogging with the OPML Editor is fast. I average between one and two posts a day. Yesterday I did 12! I'm dong all my writing in the OPML text editor and then copying and pasting into the WordPress interface. Waiting for WordPress to load seems to take so long now. I just click save in the OPML Editor and it's done. Also, the act of adding the categories to posts seems more annoying than it did before. If I keep going this way I either have to make the OPML blog be the real CasdraBlog or find a way to have automatic cross posting. I'm not real keen on losing all of the blog history. I need to think it through and observe what others are doing. Scripting News has some features like search that don't appear to be available yet on OPML blogs. It's very early days for this but I think it's off to a great start.
Oh No!
They are going to do a space walk to repair the Space Shuttle Discovery:
| Stephen Robinson will remove strips that are sticking out between heat shield tiles on Discovery's belly. |
| Nasa is concerned the dangling material - called gap fillers - could cause part of the shuttle to overheat as it re-enters the atmosphere. |
| Astronauts have never fixed a shuttle's heat shields on a spacewalk before - or gone under an orbiting shuttle. |
| The International Space Station's Canadarm2 robotic arm will position Discovery mission specialist Robinson underneath the shuttle so he can pull the gap fillers out. |
| If this doesn't work, he will use a saw to hack them away. |
Ugh! Really I did not think that the shuttle should have flown again. We need to all think good thoughts for the astronauts on their return.
Via Scripting News.
Battlestar Galactica Drinking Game
It's pretty easy:
| When Saul or Ellen Tigh drink, take a drink. |
| No, really, that's it. |
| So say we all. |
If played during that last episode I'd have been bombed.
Via Unofficial Battlestar Galactica Blog.
Stem Cell Update
The right-leaning blog OxBlog notices the incoherence of the Bush Adminstration position on the stem cell debate with repect to in vitro fertilization. Also, the comments on Walker's WatchBlog post are quite interesting.
