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  1. Flying Pig Flu on Let's Rename Swine Flu As "Colbert Flu" · · Score: 4, Funny

    The virus has genetic characteristics of avian flu and swine flu.

    The obvious way to distinguish this one is to call it the Flying Pig Flu.

    Late-night comics and morning zoo types will flog it for all it's worth, so it will overtake the current moniker.

    And the zealots will have to try to kill all the flying pigs.

    Sorry, Stephen.

  2. Re:Cue the following: on Texas Vote May Challenge Teaching of Evolution · · Score: 1

    It's available, but strangely, no one takes them up on it ...

    The John Templeton Foundation, of West Conshohocken, spends millions each year to explore and encourage a link between science and religion. But, except for a contribution to fund a debate forum in 1999, the foundation has declined to give money to the Discovery Institute.

    Charles Harper Jr., senior vice president of the Templeton Foundation, said Discovery's involvement in "political issues" was troublesome.

    "We want to advance real scientific research," Harper said. "Discovery Institute has never done - has never moved forward - any scientific research. On these deep issues, they've done absolutely nothing."

    Intelligent Design's Big Ambitions"

  3. How light bulbs really work - the TRUTH on 20 Years After Cold Fusion Debut, Another Team Claims Success · · Score: 1

    Learn from a professional, kid ...

    "Your room is flooded with light which comes through a bulb. The light is of a lesser density than the air that you breathe and illuminates it so that you may see objects about you.

    What causes that light?

    Passing from the bulb is a wire connecting with a machine that grinds from a lump of solid matter under pressure substances of various densities and these substances are drawn into your room by Suction located in the bulb."

    http://www.lawsonomy.org/Lawsonomy202.html

  4. Re:Oklahoma? on Oklahoma, Vatican Take Opposite Tacks On Evolution · · Score: 1

    Is there a middle ground to be had here? Can atheists and theists both be right?

    Only if both sides argue in good faith.

    The Creationists have never done that. From mushy, constantly morphing claims, to malicious character smears, to outright self-contradiction, their goal has always been to tear critical thinking down, not to advance the state of knowledge.

    Look up "Howard Ahmanson" and decide whether he has a truth-seeking agenda or not. And find out whether the Templeton group ever got any creationists to take their research money.

  5. Minor Win2k glitches on Anyone Besides Zune Owners With New Year's Crashes? · · Score: 1

    Two Win2k boxes on my SOHO network came up with network access down/disabled. I was afraid my router had gone TU but this here Ubuntu box got online without problems. Reboots worked to get the Win2k machines online again.

    FWIW

  6. Re:Sorry on Hubble's Exoplanet Pics Outshined by Keck's · · Score: 2, Funny

    Gesundheit!

  7. They learned from the Chinese on Stem Cells Derived from Human Clones · · Score: 1

    But embryonic stem-cell researchers were shocked and delighted by the advance, which many had referred to as a distant possibility until they saw this study by Woo Suk Hwang and his colleagues...

    The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.

    --Chinese Proverb
  8. Have you been there? on What Do You Believe Even If You Can't Prove It? · · Score: 1

    I stumbled through an unobservable bit of the world once.


    It was an invisible 7-Eleven ...

  9. Re:America on Europeans To Monitor American Voters · · Score: 1

    Making America look more like a hellish pit of arrogance and ignorance, one forum post at a time. eh?


    Look like???

  10. Why waste the 'waste'? on Amec Working on Long-Term Nuclear Waste Solution · · Score: 1
    Huge eternal holes full of anything would be a pain to manage. (Look at the annual number of ocean drownings worldwide.)


    We have the technology now to chew all that stuff up for power, leaving only mild leftovers with 100-200 yr. half-lives.
    (Put that in your smoky glass and .. uh .. <metaphor meltdown>)


    Oh, and it will also run on thorium. And can't go critical.

  11. Re:Bioterrorism on Tuberculosis May Become A Global Threat Again · · Score: 1

    Terrorists could contract the disease and intentionally spread it among the populus.


    If they're just giving it to trees, we have no worries; trees don't have lungs.

  12. ObRen&Stimpy on Get Rid of Internet Explorer - Browse Happy! · · Score: 1


    "The big blue button!!!...The big bright shining blue candy-like button!!!.. Can he stand it?!!!.."

  13. ObSwan on Spyware Becoming Worst Tech Support Problem · · Score: 1


    I t'ink he ... he looka lika man.

  14. Nino, the Mind Boggler on U.S. Dept. of Energy Takes A New Look At Cold Fusion · · Score: 1

    --the world revolving around the sun being one of them that comes to mind.


    Well well, what de hell! Dat's de sun at the center of the earth...

  15. Oh shut up... on Military Develops Liquid Body Armor · · Score: 1

    ... and go and change your armor.

    [PS> The new coffee table autobio The Pythons is great!]

  16. ObCoupling on Qwest To Offer 'Naked DSL' · · Score: 1, Redundant

    [Jeff is watching one of Patrick's home porn vids]

    Jeff: .....naked...Susan....Susan...naked...Susan....

    [Susan appears over his shoulder. He stops.]

    Susan: Not going to finish your song?

    Jeff: ..Nah.

    Susan: Why not?

    Jeff: I've forgotten the words.

  17. Back to the shadows again on Curse Your Way to Live Support · · Score: 1
    The Firesign Theater had this one pegged in the '70s:


    [Clem the Worker and Barney the Bozo are accosted on the Funway. A hologram character is trying to take Clem away to security at the Hospitality Shelter.]


    Artie Choke: Oh, *I* see, you're too frightened or tired to move! Well, just stand there, and I'll send Deputy Dan to come getcha!...



    That album could have a big revival if the suits glom onto this as a bodycount-reducer.

  18. living with coronal discharge on Danger Of Strong Electromagnetic Fields · · Score: 1
    Please come out to SF and tell PG&E to fix everything immediately. In the rain/fog in the Bay Area, you can stand near many a utility pole at a quiet time and hear the zapping and hissing of the coronas on the HV insulator attachment points.


    Put HV on a somewhat pointy thing, in the mist, and the world is your lightning ball. The current is relatively small, however - climb up and grab on, as the raccoons do, for some HUGE SPARKS.

  19. Re:Social stigma on Warspying in San Francisco · · Score: 1

    This is why we're losing jobs to India. Indians don't have to worry about looking like dorks because they're interested in science.


    A very interesting article here makes that exact point, taking the long view of our information-based economy.


    The US won't go down the tubes because of outsourcing. It'll go down the tubes because we're becoming uninteresting to smart people.

  20. ObPython on AT&T Wireless Fumbles Number Portability · · Score: 1



    Ehm ... you've got a lovely phone number there, Squire ... we wouldn't want anything to happen to it, now would we ...?

    </voice>

  21. "Reasoning"??? on McBride's New Open Letter on Copyrights · · Score: 1



    This is obviously some strange use of the word that I wasn't previously aware of.

    </voice>

  22. That's a patented business model! on Microsoft to Charge for FAT File System · · Score: 1

    Because they're massively in debt, and no one usese their products anymore.


    Watch out! SCO has proprietary rights to that business model - you may get a "friendly invoice" for calling attention to it.

  23. The Reality Barrier on More Damning SCO Evidence At Groklaw · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There must be some kind of a soundproof barrier between reality and the guys bidding this crap on the marketplace floor...


    Unfortunately, it's the same one that blocks the mass of computer users from understanding their machines - the mechanisms will mirror and magnify only the actions of those piloting them. When a monkey looks into a trading floor, no Warren Buffett looks out.

  24. Ray Bradbury's ,too on L.A. County Bans Use Of "Master/Slave" Term · · Score: 1

    Check the foreword to a recent addition of 'Fahrenheit 451'. He talks about people calling him to change/update the story to make it more PC!

  25. ObPython on Billy the Kid Faces The Law... Again · · Score: 1


    Nobody leave the room ask shall - somebody I leave nobody in the room body shall, take the tablets Tigerbody. Alself me to my duce introlow left body in the roomself.