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Astronomy Picture of the Day: [antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov] (Via Dan)

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[news.bbc.co.uk] A teachers’ union has said it is alarmed by an increase in lessons which teach that Adam and Eve was the literal truth, rather the fable which science believes it to be. The rise in creationism is not just an American phenomenon. For many British people, belief in a six-day creation seems to be

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Just found this: [web.canon.jp]

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After chatting with Alan & Telsa at the weekend, and with Simon-the-Monkey-Boy yesterday, I spent last night disassembling my 20+ year old washing machine in order to access and unblock the filter. The machine dates from before an era where ease of use was not terribly important, so to empty the filter normally would require

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[www.wired.com]

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A woman rushing to a hospital to give birth hit a few stops along the way – first at a gas station where she delivered the baby herself, then when confused police ordered her out of the car at gunpoint. Debbie Coleman, whose 3- and 4-year-old daughters were asleep in the back seat, pulled over

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[news.bbc.co.uk] Actor Christopher Eccleston has quit as Doctor Who after just one episode of the new series has been screened, the BBC has confirmed. Solution: Make Billie Piper the next Doctor; a simple bodyswap plot will suffice, with a messed-up regeneration. No?

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Like most any geek, I tend to accrue “stuff” – neat stuff, tech stuff, books, etc – which tend to linger around the house; indeed a lot of it has been here longer than many people might consider normal, so I have a pretty good idea of what constitutes “un-necessary toys” versus “interesting antique, to

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Old to some, no doubt, but new to me: [www.cs.huji.ac.il] Remember those flat round things you may have found lying around the house. Those that never really worked well as flying saucers? Well, the other day I happenned to have a good look at one through a magnifying glass. I was able to discern something

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Working backwards through the UK’s 4-day weekend, a recap of what happened: Easter Sunday: Kitchen Flooding and a Convivial Dinner Like her pseudonymous namesake, my friend Bridget works in publishing, is beautiful, single, unnecessarily obsessed about her weight, has a disturbing enthusiasm for trashy pop culture, an insane mother, gets on extremely well with men

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small: [www.crypticide.com] medium: [www.geoffarnold.com] large: [doc.weblogs.com] One of the design decisions I made when my first website went up, one goal that I have maintained ever since, is to shoot for a “clean” style for ease of loading, rendering, and reading. By and large dropsafe is a single pull of HTML and should render fairly

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