73 posts tagged “punditry”
Le sigh.
Over at New Scientist there's a great article on how lab conditions give rise more easily to "living" stuff much much more easily than previously supposed.
As in, it's happened in a lab. Fairly quickly.
I know the hardcore creationists won't bother listening to this or have any idea what it implies, but for those of us who care about actual reality- it's just amazing.
Read the whole thing and see if it doesn't thrill you, too.
There's a documentary in the works targeted to right-wing sorryass whiners conservative voters titled "How Obama Got Elected". It's already shaping up to be a smear job, and I just hope the filmmakers come to their senses long enough to base the movie on this:
And then angryalien could make it into a 30-second movie for Starz!
Yeah.
I really don't want to hear "personal accountability" or that "the invisible hand of the free market will decide" from any of these scoundrels ever again.
Found over at PhysOrg.com a little tidbit sure to amuse.
There's a startup out of San Francisco that is developing cars, and hopes to begin actual production by 2010.
Electric cars, with a charge sufficient for 2500 miles.
And they're inflatable.
And they get shipped to you, in a couple of boxes.
And you assemble them yourself.
Enter XP Vehicles.
They claim you can drive the car of a cliff and it'll be OK, and that there's no single pocket that vandals can slash. They figure that someone vandalizing one of their cars would really have to go at it.
Thing is, even if it's all true, I don't see the powers that be allowing this in the US. I figure they'll just say the cars aren't street legal for whatever passel of reasons (don't weigh enough, can't assure they were constructed accurately, mysteriously don't pass crash tests) but I bet they'll be fine overseas.
I hope XP Vehicles just lasts long enough to be able to get things in production and sold.
I present, straight from St. Gasoline and in the wonderfully minimalist style of cyanide and happiness the best and most likely to be understood even by creationists argument evah.
Behold:
Thank you.
Please note: I'm trying to show the difference between those trying to live their lives in accordance with what they see as "good" according to the Bible and the godbags who use the Bible as a club against the rest of us. Not only do they assume that we believe in the Bible, but they also assume that we pick and choose among its contents in exactly the way they do...or else.
Folks, it's a book, not a club.
My thanks to the pain for illustrating this so well. I'm afraid godbags don't get subtlety.
And continuing from the sacred to the profane, I just find this damned funny.
At this point, however, I'd like to remind those among us who claim Republicans represent "fiscal responsibility". I'd also like to ask how much time in Iraq you'd personally be able to pay for, and if all that government money wouldn't be better spent here at home.
Compare how much has been poured into Iraq, and take a look at what New Orleans looks like now...years after Katrina's been and gone. And for those how want to talk strategic significance, I'd also like to remind you that New Orleans was the fourth biggest port in the Western Hemisphere- never mind access to stuff like oil rigs and the like.
'Nuff said.
And on a much more serious note, there's worldometers, which has a running real-time total of things like desert acreage created moment by moment, cars being produced this year, and various other stats that change depending on when you check them.
My personal favorite is worldwide time spent waiting for pages to download.
Found this over at neatorama as well.
