Charles Darwin was born 199 years ago today. From the Darwin Day press release,

Recent Gallup polls show that 43 percent of Americans reject the theory of evolution and instead believe that “God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so.” And at least four [...]

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Adding to the never-ending adoration of His Noodliness, there is now an FSM hat.
Disclaimer: I am a cited supporter of the FSM agenda, as you can see on this page.

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This just warms the cockles of my heart:

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UPDATE 2007-11-11:

Card de-Blinked. Original post below:

My wife and I recently signed up for our first joint credit card. This will allow us to do things like buying plane tickets to see each other and dinners out without having to constantly update our Karma spreadsheet. The Karma spreadsheet (thanks Google) will remain in use [...]

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I came upon this poem in “The Open Society and Its Enemies: Part 1″ by Karl R. Popper. It is of course, much older than that work, its author, Critias, living from 460 to 403 BCE.
I think one could read much into this poem these days, and it bears several interpretations.

Then came, it seems, that [...]

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