The Darwinian Gardener again 5 Oct 2008 My favourite gardener, the Darwinian Gardener, gives another interview in the Florida News-Journal with which I can only whole-heartedly agree. One can work in a garden as a Darwinian gardener if one (i) needs to reclaim a driveway or path to the front door for one’s own purposes, (ii) has a light carbon footprint by using manual rather than internal combustion power, and (iii) has chilled beer on hand. I suspect the Darwinian Gardener is a many of refinement, and drinks Cooper’s Pale Ale. I suspect he’d be very pleased to know that I have a considerable amount of data supporting his theory that brick and concrete triggers the hormones of grass plants. Humor
Creationism and Intelligent Design Dembski can’t weasel out of this one 19 Mar 2009 Ian Musgrave has a brilliant post showing that Dembski’s revisiting of the old creationist canard that Dawkins’ 1984 Weasel program, designed to show that random variation and selective retention can “evolve” a target phrase, in this case Shakespeare’s “Methinks it is a weasel” (oops; I nearly had my own mutation… Read More
Humor Mute monks sing the Hallelujah chorus 13 Dec 2009 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCFCeJTEzNU] Hat tip Chris Thompson… Read More
Humor Australia, and how to survive it 21 Jan 2009 Linked in the comments of the latest Australian-bashing by that cold bastard in Minnesota, comes this piece by Douglas Adams Jeremy Lee on how dangerous Australia is. I want all you foreigners to read it in case you ever decide to move here and raise the rental princes. I’ve reformatted… Read More