entombed in the shrine of zeroes and ones

OK, so it only seems to work in Canadian mice so far.  Still, it's a fascinating piece of work.  Thanks to electroweak.

<lifeinbeta> allofmp3.com is sadly gone
<ronebofh> oh, it is?  good.
<lifeinbeta> not a fan of the russian mob?
<ronebofh> definitely not.
* lifeinbeta reaches for the polonium
<ronebofh> i'm already radioactive, man.
<aDe> oh, so that's why you're in such a state of decay
<ronebofh> only half of me.
* aDe puts rone in a lead box
<aDe> Schroedinger's Sysadmin.
<ronebofh> what's schroedinger's sysadmin?  you can't tell if he's surly or not until you open the box?
<aDe> no.  you *know* he's surly.  he's a sysadmin.
<aDe> you just can't tell whether all your files have been deleted until you open the box.

More YouTube goodness: experiments with water on the ISS.

Cambridge University cosmologist and mathematician John Barrow was awarded $1.6-million yesterday to do research into whether God is sitting at the control panel behind the Theory of Everything about the universe.

He won the 2006 Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities, the world's richest individual scholarly research grant.  Its initiator, mutual-fund investor Sir John Templeton, specified that it be worth more than the Nobel Prize (which is worth about $1.5-million) so the media would take it seriously.

Dr. Barrow, 53, author of 17 books and one play (about infinity), believes that monotheistic religious thought about God and creation offers a better explanation than anything else, including most science, of how the universe works.

... is that it wasn't handed down on stone tablets from a Higher Intelligence, it seems.

Steve Mirsky at Scientific American reaches back to give Intelligent Design yet another wedgie.

On September 26, I sat in a federal courtroom in Harrisburg, Pa., where a lawyer said for almost certainly the first time ever, "Can we have the bacterial flagellum, please?"

kraquehaus gives Ray Nagin's words the Hunter S. Thompson treatment.

nyar gives Intelligent Design a fair shake and finds it seriously wanting.

"Any system of thought that denies or seeks to explain away the overwhelming evidence for design in biology is ideology, not science." (via tnr_feed)

Remember Katherine Harris?  It seems that she endorsed a citrus canker cure that turned out to be little more than Penta water. (thanks to infrogmation)

Patrick Hruby gets his rant on regarding Congressional meddling in the sports world.