Truth (Plus Lies)

The Pope fights stem cell research:

God’s Rottweiler is taking yet another bite out of science with the announcement that any scientist who engages in stem cell research of any kind will be excommunicated. The same goes for any politician who votes in favor of legislation permitting such research to take place.

I can understand opposing stem cell research (though not unless you also have a problem with in vitro fertilization), but threats of excommunication aren’t the mark of a healthy, functional church.

Song of the Day: The Amps - Breaking the Split Screen Barrier
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Shit. The Random Restaraunt Selector is broken and won’t show me restaurants in Boulder. Guess I don’t get to eat today.

Song of the Day: Pavement - Circa 1762
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Spain passed a law that makes it a crime to fileshare, which seems completely stupid and difficult to enforce. I guess their plan is to go after ISPs for enabling filesharing, but even that’s gotta be hard to follow through on.

The law also introduces a small tax to be levied on all blank media — from a blank CD to mobile phones and even a memory stick.

So lame.

Very interesting video about how engineers can use the principles of evolution to maximize efficiency.

I found this along several other related videos, including one about how the eye could have evolved (countering a perennial creationist argument) and Bill Maher explaining why we don’t need to teach Intelligent Design in schools.

I find Eugene Volokh convincing every time I read him - which admittedly is not that often. His secret seems to be choosing his targets with precision. Today, Instupundit links to a Volokh article that pretty effectively dismisses the money-is-speech/money-is-not-speech axis of argument about campaign finance reform. It’s not quite a revelation, but it’s nice to have some issues settled.

Song of the Day: The Fall - Leave the Capitol
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The Axl Rose and Sidekick Cat Commemmorative Dish