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insisting on darwinian evolution as the only modifying force on biological structure is a common fallacy.

If you were to read Kauffman, "The Origins of Order" (Oxford University Press, 1993), you'd get a fairly solid mathematical treatment of how chaos and order combine on the boundary between them to self-modify.

This siteis kind of interesting, it has a number of homemade recipes for building bizarre science stuff.

My favorite is the cloud chamber , with this device you can observe radioactive particles. You can actually see the curly little vapor trails that particle scientists observe in major accelerators.

There's also a modification for observing cosmic rays, high energy particles that are zipping through you by the thousands every second.

This siteis kind of interesting, it has a number of homemade recipes for building bizarre science stuff.

My favorite is the cloud chamber , with this device you can observe radioactive particles. You can actually see the curly little vapor trails that particle scientists observe in major accelerators.

There's also a modification for observing cosmic rays, high energy particles that are zipping through you by the thousands every second.

To bad Juanita didn't have a magnesium flare during her crisis.

Rabbi R. Mermelstein commented ... The Iceman was obviously a proto-Nazi intent on killing all perceived "lesser races" rather than some sort of noble hunter fatally injured in a "hunting accident"

Continued "misinformation" being spread by modern-day neo-nazi organizations has been picked up by normally straight-thinking, clear-headed organizations (e.g. NRA). As a consequence, this continued desire to disarm the "undesirables" (e.g. Jews, Homos, AMWAY believers, Republicans, etc) as prevalent today as it was during the Bronze Age continues.

The young woman shouted "911" prior to the brutal rape. Had she waited the six-weeks it would have taken for the Regional Law Enforcement Organization to respond, she would have been killed vice the Iceman.

It is sick that there are some out there who have necrophelic fantasies about some Ice WOMAN.

Only by exercising her human right to self-defense was this member of a "lesser race" able to survive her brutal rape, kill her assailant (i.e. the Iceman) rather than be killed, and struggle across the Alps to freedom.

Rabbi R. Mermelstein commented ... The Iceman was obviously a proto-Nazi intent on killing all perceived "lesser races" rather than some sort of noble hunter fatally injured in a "hunting accident"

Continued "misinformation" being spread by modern-day neo-nazi organizations has been picked up by normally straight-thinking, clear-headed organizations (e.g. NRA). As a consequence, this continued desire to disarm the "undesirables" (e.g. Jews, Homos, AMWAY believers, Republicans, etc) as prevalent today as it was during the Bronze Age continues.

The young woman shouted "911" prior to the brutal rape. Had she waited the six-weeks it would have taken for the Regional Law Enforcement Organization to respond, she would have been killed vice the Iceman.

It is sick that there are some out there who have necrophelic fantasies about some Ice WOMAN.

Only by exercising her human right to self-defense was this member of a "lesser race" able to survive her brutal rape, kill her assailant (i.e. the Iceman) rather than be killed, and struggle across the Alps to freedom.

There was a much smaller model built by Norwegian WWII POW's that used the prisoner's teeth (while still in the mouth of course) as part of the radio, but I can not find a link to that. But it really exists in a museum.

Glenn sold his impeachment vote and/or cooperation to Bill (Rapist) Clinton.

Maintain a questioning attitude

• Glue and PVA also work well.
• Another fun slime is made from 5 parts cornstarch to 1-2 parts water, by volume. This one is very slimy, but becomes rigid under abrupt pressure.
• From a chemistry teacher's standpoint, even hard-wheat flour (bread flour) is great stuff. Take bread flour, add water, and stir. Watch the lovely gluten threads intermingle as the starch becomes slimy. Add more water for more slime, or keep stirring for more gluten and bounce.

There have been some cool articles on polymers and slimes at Science News and ACS, but that hagfish was news to me. Oooooh!

Actually you don't need a magnent (really ferrite bar). An oatmeal cylindar box and wire will do.
Here are some links to some crystal radio pages:

http://www.freeweb.pdq.net/headst rong/foxhole.HTM The razorblade radio plans
http://www.midnightscience.com/
http://www.freeweb.pdq.net/headst rong/crystal.htm
http://www.thebest.net/wuggy/
http://home.earthlink.net/~drduggee/xt al.htm

Actually you don't need a magnent (really ferrite bar). An oatmeal cylindar box and wire will do.
Here are some links to some crystal radio pages:

http://www.freeweb.pdq.net/headst rong/foxhole.HTM The razorblade radio plans
http://www.midnightscience.com/
http://www.freeweb.pdq.net/headst rong/crystal.htm
http://www.thebest.net/wuggy/
http://home.earthlink.net/~drduggee/xt al.htm

My current pet program (PowerShell) came to be after a couple of bong hits. It's gotten more than 15,000 downloads since I released it (Jan 3rd, I think?) and I'm constantly getting email from people who love it. I took some bong hits, got really baked, got an idea, and started coding :-) So anybody that claims that drugs make you stupid is dead wrong.

I can also code some damn good Perl stoned, too :-)

"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
-Linus Torvalds

This is as offtopic as an offtopic thing with a degree in offtopicness from the Massachusetts Institute of Offtopicality, but the abovementioned site has a link to the funniest and most entertaining thing I've read since Old Man Murray was slashdotted a couple of weeks ago. It's blurbed as follows (for those who prefer to teleport non-blind):

On another lighter note, let me tell you the story of Fry, and how the Internet got him laid. He was in a Yahoo chat room talking to a married woman who lived near him, and they decided to meet. The story isn't as simple as that though, as you will find out if you decide that you feel like reading a true account of a regular [21] year old guy who found out that there is more to life than playing Quake 3. Check out the story here, it's pretty erotic in a perverted Dawson's Creek sort of way.

I could bring this back ontopic by linking the obligatory Richard Dawkins Astrology 99 buglist, or citing 'the very real phenomenon that the birth days of proficient sports people tend to be distributed very non-uniformly across the seasons' [Dudink, A. (1994), Birth date and sporting success, Nature 368, p.592.], or whiffle on about horoscopes as Dicemanesque Mission Packs.

But how unfunny would that be on an 'It's funny. Laugh.' topic? And anyway, I aint no steenkin' Jon Katz.

This is as offtopic as an offtopic thing with a degree in offtopicness from the Massachusetts Institute of Offtopicality, but the abovementioned site has a link to the funniest and most entertaining thing I've read since Old Man Murray was slashdotted a couple of weeks ago. It's blurbed as follows (for those who prefer to teleport non-blind):

On another lighter note, let me tell you the story of Fry, and how the Internet got him laid. He was in a Yahoo chat room talking to a married woman who lived near him, and they decided to meet. The story isn't as simple as that though, as you will find out if you decide that you feel like reading a true account of a regular [21] year old guy who found out that there is more to life than playing Quake 3. Check out the story here, it's pretty erotic in a perverted Dawson's Creek sort of way.

I could bring this back ontopic by linking the obligatory Richard Dawkins Astrology 99 buglist, or citing 'the very real phenomenon that the birth days of proficient sports people tend to be distributed very non-uniformly across the seasons' [Dudink, A. (1994), Birth date and sporting success, Nature 368, p.592.], or whiffle on about horoscopes as Dicemanesque Mission Packs.

But how unfunny would that be on an 'It's funny. Laugh.' topic? And anyway, I aint no steenkin' Jon Katz.

My home at:

http://freeweb.pdq.net/jcooper

Has a bit of a howto on the subject. It also includes documentation that I recieved from a video card hacker on how to squeeze normal text modes out of some monitor/card combinations. It's a scary, very cool hardware hack that I haven't delved into yet. It involves flashing your video card a modified BIOS.

Last night I just setup the fb console device in the 2.2 kernels to allow all of my virtual consoles to display. I'll be documenting that as well, sometime in the future. A legible 154x98 text mode is a rather amusing sight to behold.

It's not all that difficult (X was working within 30 minutes for me) and it's well worth it, as these old workstation monitors were made like tanks.