The Best Thing to Come Out of Intelligent Design

Pootergeek posted a link to this funny video featuring Richard Dawkins, but not as you’ve seen him before.
I assumed it was some sort of tribute, a “bigging up” of non-believers. But it’s actually meant to be a criticism of Dawkins by some ID proponents, which seems to have spectacularly backfired.

Jessica Alba’s Wiggle

Dr Ben Goldacre exposes the whole sciency nonsense.

I’d like my lawyer, Dave…

Robots Could Demand Legal Rights
The paper says a "monumental shift" could occur if robots develop to the point where they can reproduce, improve themselves or develop artificial intelligence.
The research suggests that at some point in the next 20 to 50 years robots could be granted rights.
If this happened, the report […]

Strange Resolution…

One of the better tricks known to OpenOffice.org users is in fixing Word document corruptions. You open up the document in OpenOffice.org Writer and then save it and there’s a good chance that the problem will go away and you can use it in Word again.It’s bizarre. The one place that should be able to […]

Football Managers depend on their team?

Ellee Seymour has put me on to an article where Cambridge University have researched football and found that a football manager’s success is less to do with him, and more to do with his players and luck. Personally, this sounds like the same sort of junk research that comes up with all these stupid simplistic […]