Truth (Plus Lies)

This engineer has figured out how to improve the screw.

Here are some maps of America with data about ethnicity, religion, language, politics, and socio-economics.

For under $200, the GP2X looks like a Gameboy or a PSP, and it runs Linux, so it can play movies, music, games, and do whatever the hell else you would want to do with Linux. Awesome. I hope there’s not a catch.

Here are some reactions to their debate last night. I listened to it. George Galloway is a repulsive human being, and it’s digusting that the far left embraces him. They give merit to the most paranoid liberal-bashing the Rush Limbaughs of the world throw around. Which sucks.

Hitchens, on the other hand, is thoughtful and astute, and he was well-engaged for the first part of the debate. Then at some point the hysterical crowd got the better of him and he became detached and condescending.

Are you tired of playing word games designed in the VICTORIAN ERA??

Word on the street is that a lot of social conservatives really like March of the Penguins. They think it affirms monogamy, which I suppose it does if you ignore the fact that these penguins abandon their mates and children for good once summer arrives. They also think that it works as an argument for Intelligent Design, which is yet another example of IDists’ willful ignorance of what evolution is. Or what an argument is, for that matter.

Dogs are still awesome when they’re dressed up as bees.

The AP/Ipsos poll has Bush’s approval below 40% for the first time. (Ipsos is one of the least charitable polls to Bush according to Professor Pollkatz.)

I say probably. He says irrefutably. (He’s a paleontologist. I’m not.)