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....I have already mentioned Nylonase several times......

So scientists discovered some bacteria that adapted to be able to live on some man made material, such as nylon and related compounds. How does that show that a crocodile can become an eagle or any reptile be an ancestor to any bird?

From the wiki on nylonase:

(..Scientists were able to induce another species of bacteria, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, to evolve the capability to break down the same nylon byproducts in a laboratory by forcing them to live in an environment with no other source of nutrients....)

We have known for a long time that micro-evolution happens every day. Life forms, such as bacteria are amazingly adept at meeting environmental challenges. I'm not disputing that sort of evolution is real. I am disputing that big jump from such small changes to then asserting that reptiles can therefore evolve into birds.

(..in other words: Speciation has taken place...)

So what if speciation has taken place. All experiments with fruit flies still PROVED that nothing OTHER than fruit flies were produced. You may call them another species, but no matter what you label them, they were still essentially fruit flies. That experiment and many others clearly show that genetic LAW doesn't allow for the major changes needed to make a jump from an ant to a bee or a reptile to a bird.

(..Identify the SPECIFIC barrier..)

Experiment and observation show that these large scale jumps just don't happen. That is very specific. Genetic LAW prevents such chasms from being crossed. Evolutionists insist on the existence of processes in the past, that we don't see today in nature, nor can we duplicate them in the lab.

(...Science is about more than experiments in a lab,....)

When I used the word "lab" I meant more than a building made by man. All of nature, as we observe it TODAY is a lab in the sense I meant. We can observe supernovas, the sun as part of that lab. When a crime investigator, looking at the past, presents evidence in court, it is still up to the jury, whether they will BELIEVE the evidence, for or against the accused. In the case of the OJ Simpson trial, there was plenty of evidence that the jury obviously did not BELIEVE.

(.. "half a wing"..)

So has anybody ever made a creature or observed a creature with "half a wing" or half of anything? Natural selection supposedly selects for things that give an organism a survival advantage. It seems to me that any critter having to schlepp around a non-functional part more likely hinders survival. Such a thing will likely die before it has a chance to reproduce. People used to believe that your appendix was a "vestigial" organ that has no use. We now know that it is s repository for certain wastes. Sometimes these wastes cause appendicitis.

I happen to believe that experimental and observational evidence has shown, that large scale transformations, such as from reptiles to birds do not happen today. You do believe the assertions of the evolutionists that this took place in the past.

Maybe you can give me an example of such a transformation, today, not in the past, that is not just simply an organism adapting to stress. While under such stress, a bacteria certainly develop new capabilities to survive, but it still basically a bacteria.

(....top Google link for "man made coal"...)

http://www.fao.org/docrep/T4470E/t4470e0g.htm

(....Google link for "man made oil"...)

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/archive/index.php/t-402871.html

Fuck, just lost my coffee over my keyboard. Mmmmm. Pie.

Epic's Mark Rein has now said maps have had to be cut from the PlayStation 3 version because the next-gen system can't handle them.

Speaking to IGN, Rein commented that the maps not in the PS3 release didn't sit well on the console "because the system didn't have the resources to produce a smooth gameplay experience."

Ikea is the source of mistrust of sweden for me.

http://www.weebl.jolt.co.uk/pie.htm/

The winner got to join the Four Kings UK squad and compete in the CPL World Tour.

WEebl already did it, in a much more informative and funny way! http://www.weebl.jolt.co.uk/upgrade%202.htm

... as long as Sparkle is destroyed as well. You know, sort of like a matter/antimatter reaction.

Oh wait, that be the end of Weebl and Bob [1]. Damn! OK, OK. I guess web animation actually has a purpose after all.

[1] - Try these: "pie", "riot", "art", and "Magical Trevor"

... as long as Sparkle is destroyed as well. You know, sort of like a matter/antimatter reaction.

Oh wait, that be the end of Weebl and Bob [1]. Damn! OK, OK. I guess web animation actually has a purpose after all.

[1] - Try these: "pie", "riot", "art", and "Magical Trevor"

... as long as Sparkle is destroyed as well. You know, sort of like a matter/antimatter reaction.

Oh wait, that be the end of Weebl and Bob [1]. Damn! OK, OK. I guess web animation actually has a purpose after all.

[1] - Try these: "pie", "riot", "art", and "Magical Trevor"

Even this guy..?

http://www.weebl.jolt.co.uk/yarr.htm/

Arrrrrr. Ninja Pirate to the rescue. http://www.weebl.jolt.co.uk/quest.htm

Speaking of pie, can anyone recommend some good recipes?

Recipes for pi are from "Analysis" down to "Open questions" of this article.

Wobbl and Bob are looking for some pi based action.

Surely the secret link in

http://www.weebl.jolt.co.uk/history4.htm

(click when piethagoras comes up in bold) is a more apt link? =P

mmmmm! pi!

http://www.weebl.jolt.co.uk/pie.htm

Midway are going to publish the next Unreal Tournament.
Does this mean we'll have to pimp our leviathans?

I suppose playing against people using celebrity skins could be quite fun though - oops, I flakked Britney again...

Pi is now funny?

Of course pi(e) is funny. Haven't you watched Wobbl and Bob ? Of course The Simpsons would pick it up to display a contrast between the world views of Lisa Simpson and her father.

Mmmmmmmmonkey...
http://www.weebl.jolt.co.uk/anywhere.htm

Channel 1: The Homestar Channel. Channel 2: The Weebl and Bob channel. Channel 3 will be dedicated to various Star Wars Kid videos. Don't forget you have a couple thousand channels of porn...

[Instead of playing video games,] Just use your God given legs and walk.

What legs?

While I agree that a site should NOT have flash for its content or for regular site navigation, and should be still 100% useable without it, there's still the issue of some online cartoons, jokes, games, videos, etc that require flash.

http://www.weebl.jolt.co.uk/ is one of the funniest cartoons I've ever read, and without flash, I wouldn't be able to read it.

I guess Weebl approves of this new PIE.

Weebl:PIE!

Bob:Yes!

Isn't April Fools Day just the best? =] For a 'full' list of sites pulling pranks today check out this list here

Here is a sample:

dotget.net - Microsoft to put P2P software .GET into next version of Windows
kylewenda.com - the government records your phone calls... scary
rfc-editor.org - RFC for "Requirements for Morality Sections in Routing Area Drafts"
waferbaby.com - amusing php error
planet.gentoo.org - Various things, CFLAGS, etc
fark.com - Many Jokes (keep reloading): BOOBIES!, Logged in as admin, North-Central Kentucky Bunghole-Discharge, page from 1999, BEER
2600.com - Formal Attire required for 2600 meetings today
forumsector.com - Changed the name to Nascar Sector
wikipedia.org - Britannica taking over Wikimedia
google.com - Google releases Google Gulp
kellyosbourne.org - Sanctuary records group shut us down
nukefreezone.net - Making fun of atrios.blogspot.com
weebl.jolt.co.uk - Replaced with Cats-By-Mail
telecom.co.nz - Click 2 Brick
ytmnd.com - (NSFW) hacked by teens for christ
wingus.ampedhost.com - Site converted into Mingus' Gently-Used Furniture store. Oh dear. Why won't he be kind?
homestarrunner.com - Now a pay service.
whirlpool.net.au - Australia's biggest Luddite to head Australia's largest telco
thinkgeek.com - Fake product listings.
theregister.co.uk - Bush twins to join Air Force tech unit in Iraq
creativebits.org - Site purchased by Microsoft

Isn't April Fools Day just the best? =] For a 'full' list of sites pulling pranks today check out this list here

Here is a sample:

kellyosbourne.org - Sanctuary records group shut us down
nukefreezone.net - Making fun of atrios.blogspot.com
weebl.jolt.co.uk - Replaced with Cats-By-Mail
telecom.co.nz - Click 2 Brick
ytmnd.com - (NSFW) hacked by teens for christ
wingus.ampedhost.com - Site converted into Mingus' Gently-Used Furniture store. Oh dear. Why won't he be kind?
homestarrunner.com - Now a pay service.
whirlpool.net.au - Australia's biggest Luddite to head Australia's largest telco
thinkgeek.com - Fake product listings.
theregister.co.uk - Bush twins to join Air Force tech unit in Iraq
creativebits.org - Site purchased by Microsoft
ocremix.org - Now partnered with EA (or something like that). Called EA ReMix.
spacedaily.com - Bush Cancels Space Shuttle Program
planet.gnome.org - Switched sites with planet.kde.org
planet.kde.org - Switched sites with planet.gnome.org
ietf.org - RFC: Efficient Transformation Formats of Unicode
beejaysworld.de - Gentoo dropping livecds for x86
nature.com - Apollo bacteria spur lunar erosion
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov - Water On Mars
smh.com.au - (Free Reg Req) SMEGmail offers 1 terabyte storage
smh.com.au - (Free Reg Req) Linux looks to Hilton for exposure
thetoque.com - Canada Builds Own Missile Defense Shield
onion.com - U.S. Dog Owners Fear Arrival of Africanized Fleas
chron.com - Bush Twins in Maxim
ask.com - Jeeves has been replaced by a robot
animenewsnetwork.com - Viz Unlicenses Naruto
uninventthewheel.co.uk - New BMW technology to get around the EU ban on right hand drive cars in Europe.
newgrounds.com - changing to numagrounds.com
neopets.com - neopets adds 50 new pets
www.firstloox.org - The Loox is being recalled
packages.gentoo.org - Adobe doesn't sell products for Linux
pc.ign.com - Microsoft World of Wordcraft (Extremely Obvious)
spamusement.com - Page full of spoof banner ads
gentooexperimental.org - Gentoo using the NT kernel
moddb.com

For a full list of sites that pulled April Fools Day Pranks this year check out this list here -

Here is a sampling:

dotget.net - Microsoft to put P2P software .GET into next version of Windows
kylewenda.com - the government records your phone calls... scary
rfc-editor.org - RFC for "Requirements for Morality Sections in Routing Area Drafts"
planet.gentoo.org - Various things, CFLAGS, etc
fark.com - Many Jokes (keep reloading): BOOBIES!, Logged in as admin, North-Central Kentucky Bunghole-Discharge, page from 1999, BEER
2600.com - Formal Attire required for 2600 meetings today
forumsector.com - Changed the name to Nascar Sector
wikipedia.org - Britannica taking over Wikimedia
google.com - Google releases Google Gulp
kellyosbourne.org - Sanctuary records group shut us down
nukefreezone.net - Making fun of atrios.blogspot.com
weebl.jolt.co.uk - Replaced with Cats-By-Mail
wingus.ampedhost.com - Site converted into Mingus' Gently-Used Furniture store. Oh dear. Why won't he be kind?
homestarrunner.com - Now a pay service.
whirlpool.net.au - Australia's biggest Luddite to head Australia's largest telco
theregister.co.uk - Bush twins to join Air Force tech unit in Iraq
creativebits.org - Site purchased by Microsoft
ocremix.org - Now partnered with EA (or something like that). Called EA ReMix.
spacedaily.com - Bush Cancels Space Shuttle Program
planet.gnome.org - Switched sites with planet.kde.org
planet.kde.org - Switched sites with planet.gnome.org
ietf.org - RFC: Efficient Transformation Formats of Unicode
beejaysworld.de - Gentoo dropping livecds for x86
nature.com - Apollo bacteria spur lunar erosion
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov - Water On Mars

For a full list of sites that pulled April Fools Day Pranks this year check out this list here Here is a sampling: dotget.net - Microsoft to put P2P software .GET into next version of Windows
kylewenda.com - the government records your phone calls... scary
rfc-editor.org - RFC for "Requirements for Morality Sections in Routing Area Drafts"
waferbaby.com - amusing php error
planet.gentoo.org - Various things, CFLAGS, etc
fark.com - Many Jokes (keep reloading): BOOBIES!, Logged in as admin, North-Central Kentucky Bunghole-Discharge, page from 1999, BEER
2600.com - Formal Attire required for 2600 meetings today
forumsector.com - Changed the name to Nascar Sector
wikipedia.org - Britannica taking over Wikimedia
google.com - Google releases Google Gulp
kellyosbourne.org - Sanctuary records group shut us down
nukefreezone.net - Making fun of atrios.blogspot.com
weebl.jolt.co.uk - Replaced with Cats-By-Mail
telecom.co.nz - Click 2 Brick
ytmnd.com - (NSFW) hacked by teens for christ
wingus.ampedhost.com - Site converted into Mingus' Gently-Used Furniture store. Oh dear. Why won't he be kind?
homestarrunner.com - Now a pay service.
whirlpool.net.au - Australia's biggest Luddite to head Australia's largest telco
thinkgeek.com - Fake product listings.
theregister.co.uk - Bush twins to join Air Force tech unit in Iraq
creativebits.org - Site purchased by Microsoft
ocremix.org - Now partnered with EA (or something like that). Called EA ReMix.
spacedaily.com - Bush Cancels Space Shuttle Program
planet.gnome.org - Switched sites with planet.kde.org
planet.kde.org - Switched sites with planet.gnome.org
ietf.org - RFC: Efficient Transformation Formats of Unicode
beejaysworld.de - Gentoo dropping livecds for x86
nature.com - Apollo bacteria spur lunar erosion
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov - Water On Mars

WTF "Wobble"????
His name is wEEble - http://www.weebl.jolt.co.uk/
Is this wobble thing something they had to change to put them on Brit TV?

No, it's a Wobbl and Bob section, of course! Go watch an episode or two or three point one four; when come back bring Pi.

A unit is supposed to be a constant over a long period of time. If "kilogram" were 1/90 of your body mass, and I had a surgeon come and amputate your legs, then the magnitude of the unit would change radically. Likewise if I stuffed you full of pie. Centuries ago, when the inch was defined in terms of the width of the king's thumb, the inch-pound system of measurement had problems every time a new monarch took the throne.

You're supposed to tweak like a l33t gamer. r_mapoverbrightbits is a favourite for brightening it up without either burning retinas or making it too fugly.

"I love donkey, donkey don't lie, I love donkey almost much as PI"

For those few people who can get eMule/MLDonkey to work better than BT, is anybody sharing this file on eDonkey?

There is loads on the etfgame.com website but it was giving up even before the release, with all the people refreshing the page or whatever.

But anyway I cobbled some together from what I already had on-site from news-postings etc - ETF screenshots.

bah, everyone talks about adware in free software. How about adware-free paid-for hardware? As in, not at all like the Logitech mouse driver [bad language] that comes on the supplied CD.

Are you trying to say that flash is better at compressing the images?
Otherwise I can't see why flash would be better on dial up?

With html/php I can easily make a slideshow preloading and showing images, so there's no aqdvantage with flash. For what I know their compresssion aren't very much better than jpeg-compression.

But flash is kind of unique today, it's one of the last commonly used formats where one company have monopoly on the players/viewers. That, to me, is enough reason to avoid it as much as possible.

There's only two uses for flash imo, animations & games (like Weebl and Bob) and audio.

I think not.

- I am made of jelly. Do you see?
- I think you will find you are just inside a jelly.

I don't care for cake, I like pie.

Probably tried this but worth a shot. http://forums.jolt.co.uk/archive/index.php/t-14412 3.html Been wanting a gmail account. jimrob2020"AT"yahoo"DOT"com

PIE!!!

- Weebl

(yeah, off topic, but funny. And you should all have seen this by now anyway... so let the stragglers catch up!)

In your haste to rant about how much you hate everyone else on then Intarweb, you've missed or ignored a pretty major point: Flash is just a tool. How about this:

HTML is a lead lined cudgel with which talentless unfunny people can create their poorly designed and impossible-to-navigate websites. (or, if they're really talentless, they just ship them off to sites like geocities.com) I have personally lost count of the number of times I've had my browsing experience ruined by an annoying as hell animated gif banner ad spawning in the middle of my screen, or a homepage so slowed and crippled by dynamic HTML that I left and never returned.

I suspect most of us would agree with that to an extent, but we don't vow never to look at a webpage again.

Some Flash is very good. Deal with it, move on, use the appropriate browser/plugin to make Flash content optional.

Sometimes (almost never, but sometimes) Flash is worth seeing.

Yes, sometimes it is. But for the rest of it, AdBlock rocks.

Here's a picture of the device that emits the laser: link

And here's a picture of the laser itself: links

R makes nice pies. mmm pie

imagen weeble , Joel Veitch or Mata
doing shockwave presentations for meetings,
i think im onto somethign hear..

imagin weeble,

Sounds like it would make a good new Weebl & Bob episode!

Accurately described as "totally insane web experiences":

1x60.com - for the wonderfully insane images that make strong political statements (find and click on the "Enter" text on each page to advance to the next).

Ming The Merciless - In no way attempts to offend one group - nobody is spared. And if they are, it's accidental I'm sure.

For interactive Java-based art, check out some of the examples for Proce55ing (browse the exhibitions, examples and learning sections). Some of it's really cool.

I'm not sure I'd call it "art", but Weebl is manditory flash animation if you've not seen it. Superfancy.com also used to be pretty good, but I just looked and it's not there anymore (all the old content is gone).

There are more I've seen that I can't remember, I'm sure - but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

Weebl & Bob