Thursday, April 13, 2006

Xinhuanet.com (a chinese news service) had an article on a new find of bones that provide the link between men and apes. The bones are supposed to give us the proof we've been missing for all this time.

"It is fair to say that some species of Ardipithecus gave rise to Australopithecus," Tim White, lead author of the Nature paper and professor at the University of California, Berkley.

We don't need what is fair Tim, fair is a value judgement, determined in our individual minds, we need truth.
I found an awesome site today, merzo.net is a starship dimensions site that is very well put together. Check out the -2000x page for a nice ring we all know and love.

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Researchers, a.k.a. hackers, are being hired by some security companies to give up software manipulation points.

Griffin!!
World Magazine had a good article by John Dawson, about the illegal immigrant problem in the U.S. A guest worker program would only increase the amount of illegal immigration because of it's endurance test-like nature. You stay here for three years without getting caught, you get to become legal. I love immigration, I love this country letting people come in and start a legacy with very little religous, economical, or social persecution. I love hard working people trying to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, like the man in this article. The problem occurs when we make it hard for the people to come over, so they come illegally. Then we keep letting them come illegally and make it easier for them. We've got to address the problem so that we encourage hard work, and discourage the drug trafficking circus.

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

I just installed a program called Windows Blinds, (big w00t to Punisher for pointing it out to me). It's pretty slick, until the free version runs out. I'm running the Dogma x4 skin, I like it a lot. Check it out here.
There was a pretty funny piece of news on wired.com today. You remember those inventors that came up with the "tooth phone"? Turns out, it wasn't so realistic.