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02/09/09
Christopher Booker - Welcome to Twit Club
In this, the 200th anniversary year of the birth of Charles Darwin, some people feel obliged to weigh in on the subjects of Darwin, or evolution, or what have you, and show themselves to be right twits in the process.
Take a look at Christopher… more »
02/07/09
Law of Equivalent Toddler Badness
One thing I have noticed about our toddler - your toddler may vary - is that if he is ever up to anything bad - say, for example opening DVD cases and ripping the inserts out of them, and we STOP him - he will proceed onto things of "equivalent… more »
01/26/09
PZ Myers' Calgary Talk
With the kind babysitting services of mom-in-law, we were able to make our way up to the university in pretty decent time, all the while forcing the TomTom to continually update its trajectory - we're not about to make some annoying merges to save a few… more »
01/19/09
PZ Myers Coming To Calgary
The indomitable and unapologetically controversial Paul (PZ) Myers of the Pharyngula blog is coming to the University of Calgary next Sunday afternoon, January 25th (date confirmed!) in the ICT building (see here for maps of the campus), room 102 as the… more »
12/02/08
Stephen Butterfield Takes the Alpha Course
You may have seen the ads for the Alpha Course floating around your town, perhaps saying "Is There More to Life Than This?", though you might wonder that if the person who climbed the mountain in that picture has that question, you might not need to ask… more »
10/25/08
AronRa's Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism
For a thorough treatment of the assumptions, presumptions and myths underlying creationism, you can hardly do better than to take in the scruffy-but-erudite AronRa's series on the Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism.
His expositions on transitional… more »
08/30/08
Evolution, Alberta and Headdesk Denyse - Part II
The Calgary Herald gave Denyse O'Leary an "in rebuttal" column (entitled "Theory needs a paramedic, not more cheerleaders") to rebut Breakenridge's article.
From what I can gather, Denyse is ostensibly a journalistic defender of Intelligent Design.… more »
08/20/08
IIS6 to IIS7 Handler Migration
We had one big hiccup moving from IIS 6.0 to the 7.0 version.
In the Web.Config, IIS 7.0 no longer likes to have an httpHandlers section. We had:
<system.web>
<httpHandlers>
<remove verb="*"… more »
Evolution, Alberta and Headdesk Denyse - Part I
Rob Breakenridge wrote this article for the Calgary Herald, entitled "What is it about evolution theory that Albertans don't get?" in response to this Angus Reid poll. On the third page of the poll results, there is a percentage, by region, of the… more »
08/10/08
Tim McLean's Funeral Unmolested
Tim McLean, the victim in the horrible stabbing/beheading incident on Greyhound, was being targeted by the clan at the odious Westboro Baptist Church of "God Hates Fags" fame as a protest site against Canada in general that the grisly murder was an act… more »
07/23/08
07/14/08
Upgrading But Keeping Customizations
Imagine this scenario: you have downloaded a particular project that has source code, and it's almost exactly what you want, but it's missing a few things, and it's not under version control (for example, the projects on SourceForge) So, you go off and… more »
07/01/08
The Impasse
Despite all the labels and posturing and rationalizations, when it comes down to why evolution is a particular target for many of the Christian (as well as Jewish and Muslim, though we hear less of those perspectives here), it is relatively simple, and… more »
06/24/08
Evidence-Based Graphology
I have a small passel of graphology books. They were fun, especially when I was younger and wanted to see whether my peculiarities of handwriting were "good" or "bad", and was indeed happy with the bevy of "good" signs.
Revisiting the craft, though,… more »
06/21/08
Expelled in Calgary
I thought we might escape the Canadian premiere of this poor documentary, having seen nothing of the sort in upcoming movie listings, but I am informed on the theatre locator page of the Expelled! movie site that there are two locations where it will be… more »
