1. Jumbo shrimp, creationist astronomy

Comment #101195 by WhoIsThisGodPerson on December 20, 2007 at 4:48 am

BMMcArdle: Science for home-schoolers

Hang on! Not all home-schoolers are religious wingnuts you know. Certainly not in the UK, and in my experience not all in the US either. I've home-schooled my various kids for over 20 years now, and I'm a card-carrying 6.5 on the Dawkins scale.

Harumph!

A Merry Newtonmas, and Heathen's Greetings to all my readers.

2. Springer opera court fight fails

Comment #94641 by WhoIsThisGodPerson on December 6, 2007 at 6:29 am

Chris McL: You Brits really need to get rid of the monarchy and the church...

...and replace them with the arrangements you have in the US? No thank you. I like the monarchy and the church exactly where they are - so that we can keep an eye on them.

3. Double-checking Dawkins

Comment #93180 by WhoIsThisGodPerson on December 2, 2007 at 11:32 am

Did Dawkins just make that up, or is this really the contents of a specific bit of memory on a specific computer?

"When oi were a lad..." An old geek writes:
It seems all but impossible when dealing with a modern laptop with a couple of GIGAbytes of memory to remember that in those days, the total address space was only 64K, and it was possible to maintain a mental map of what was where in memory. I seem to recall that Apple published the code of their ROM, complete with addresses of all the subroutines (IBM did too, for the PC, along with the circuit diagrams). When writing code in assembler to fit in tiny spaces of available RAM, it was advantageous to call ROM routines directly, saving time and space. The Apple ][ even had its disk access code in the same ROM, complete with routines to read a byte at a time from the diskette, move the heads etc...

Ah! Happy Days :)

4. Enemies of Reason

Comment #65404 by WhoIsThisGodPerson on August 24, 2007 at 4:25 am

Further to the Elisis Livingstone thing...
I discovered this website :)

http://www.dnaactivation.org/index.html

I particularly enjoyed the
"New! Instant transmission by GOD"

How convenient! Saves all that messy ftp business.

Steve

5. Enemies of Reason

Comment #65265 by WhoIsThisGodPerson on August 23, 2007 at 11:56 am

Great stuff! Particularly enjoyed the look on RD's face when the Atlantis person was 'fixing' his DNA.
Question: Was anyone else puzzled by the deliberate blurring of faces in the scenes of kids & adults playing in the park? Is this now a legal requirement? Did the people concerned request that it be done?

S