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Monthly Archives: July 2008
Texas approves $5B wind-power project
Bravo! Texas regulators have approved a $4.93 billion wind-power transmission project.
Texas is already the largest producer of wind-power among U.S. states, but then again, Texas is the only state that has its own power grid (other states fall under the “national power grid” which means they are under the thumb of the Federal Energy Regulatory [...]
Posted in Environment / Weather, News, Technology
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Man walks on Moon +39
On this date in 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the Moon.
Posted in History, Science, Space, Television
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The Bible as a human creation
Guest post on Atheist Revolution by Bill Carson. His conclusions support what I’ve said for many, many years: the worst thing a Christian can do for (or to) her faith is to read the whole fucking bible! If your most cherished beliefs are more important to you than reality, then you’d better not [...]
Netflix to stream movies to Xbox 360
This is cool. Xbox 360 owners who are also Netflix subscribers will soon be able to steam 10,000 Netflix movies and TV shows.
Posted in Entertainment, Internet, Movies, Technology, Television
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Apple sells 1 million iPhone 3Gs in first weekend
Compared to about 270,000 original iPhones in it’s first two days of sales last June.
Posted in Apple, Internet, Personal Computing, Technology, Wireless / Mobile, iPod / iPhone / iTunes
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Sure are a lot of reports of iPhone problems…
So much for the “Apple is just a media darling” claim that I keep hearing about from the haters and the Microsoft apologists. There sure are a lot of reports of horrible, devastating problems surrounding the release of the iPhone 3G. Well, that’s what the headlines say, anyway.
Me? No problems to speak of. But then, I’m not one [...]
If Favre returns to NFL, it will likely be as Packer’s backup QB
The Green Bay Packers have no intention of letting Brett Favre become a free agent, and if he returns for another season, there’s no guarantee it will be as the Packer’s starting QB.
Just goes to show you, ole Aesop knew what he was talking about when he penned the “boy who cried wolf” fable. Don’t [...]
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Tennessee Titans extend home sellout streak to 103 games
Single-game tickets for the Tennessee Titans home games went on sale yesterday morning. As expected, and as usual, the Titans 2008 season sold out in 32 minutes.
Go Titans!
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80-year-old stripper still going strong
Her name is Annie Blanche Banks, but you may know her as Tempest Storm.
More than 50 years ago she was dubbed the “Girl with the Fabulous Front” and told by famous men she had the “Best Two Props in Hollywood.” Since then, Storm saw the art that made her famous on the brink of extinction. Her contemporaries [...]
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Michigan man sues bible publisher over verse translation
A Michigan man has filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming that certain bibles published by Thomas Nelson Publishing and another publish discriminate against gays.
Bradley Fowler’s lawsuit centers on one passage. The article does not state which “version” or “translation” of the bible is involved, but, the passage in question is first Corinthians, chapter [...]
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Macalope: A sad message, indeed
The Macalope on Microsoft’s proposed pro-Vista/anti-Apple marketing campaign, announced yesterday by company VP of Vista marketing, Brad Brooks at a Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference:
Microsoft made its bed by over-promising for six years and then delivering an OS that forced a lot of uncomfortable decisions. Marketing isn’t going to clean this mess up. The horny one [...]
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The Dover Debacle: creationism and rationalism
Paul Gross, writing in eSkeptic, Lying for God: The Dover Debacle, reviews the book The Devil in Dover by Lauri Lebo. The article recounts the trial, of course, but also makes a few apt observations, namely, summarizing the essence of the problem each of the two “sides” (for lack of a better term) [...]