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This week, Christopher Hitchens (writing in Slate The Tall Tale of Tuzla: Hillary Clinton’s Bosnian misadventure should disqualify her from the presidency, but the airport landing is the least of it) takes Hillary Clinton to task:
The punishment visited on Sen. Hillary Clinton for her flagrant, hysterical, repetitive, pathological lying about her visit to Bosnia should [...]

The design of the BlackBerry 9000 looks very familiar, so much so that I’m going to refer to it as an iBlackBerry…
[via Daring Fireball]

That’s right–two guys have filed suit in Federal District Court in Honolulu seeking a temporary restraining order to prevent CERN (the European Center for Nuclear Research) from proceeding to put the Large Hadron Collider online, alleging, among other things, that it will create a black hole:
They think a giant particle accelerator that will begin smashing [...]

G. David Low, an astronaut who flew three space shuttle missions and later became an executive in the space industry, died March 15 near his home in northern Virginia. He was 52.

The NFL owners are meeting this week in Palm Beach, Florida.  They have several issues to decide, among them are playoff seeding, the force-out rule and others.

Dennis Dillon writing in the Sporting News on Vince Young being back at the University of Texas trying to complete his degree rather than in Nashville working with new/returning offensive coordinator Mike Heimerdinger:
It’s admirable Young that has returned to school to continue working on his degree. But that’s not going to help him become a [...]

In the era of over the top storylines that strain the very notion of “suspension of disbelief“, (and a surging wave of fundamentalism, especially in the Christianity corner) it’s no wonder that 10,000 B.C. has gotten so many so-so and outright bad reviews. It’s sad, though, because this is a awesome film.
The story is [...]

Well, I’ve completed my upgrade to WordPress v2.5. As always, the upgrade was about as painless as it could be: (1) Backup website; (2) Backup MySQL; (3) Deactivate plugins; (4) Upload new WordPress files; (5) run Upgrade.php; (6) Reactivate plugins. Simple.
WordPress v2.5 rocks. And, the only problem that I had with RC1 [...]

A website has been created by the fine folks at the National Center for Science Education debunking the “Expelled” movie and the garbage it’s based on. The site is called Expelled Exposed.
I saw the presentation that Eugenie Scott of the NCSE made at The Amaz!ng Meeting 5 (I watched the DVDs) and am very [...]

Phil Plait writing in his Bad Astronomy Blog, “Skeptologists“:
Next week, I am flying to Los Angeles to film the pilot for a new TV show called “Skeptologists”. It’s the brainchild of Brian Dunning, the brain behind the popular Skeptoid podcast, and Ryan Johnson from New Rule Productions, an LA production company. Here’s a quick summary:
The [...]