I’ve often wondered what the American Civil Liberties Union was thinking because of some of the people and organizations they chose to defend. Never more than now. This is from the Wichita Eagle via Stop the ACLU. A Kansas church group that routinely protests at military funerals across the country filed a suit in federal [...]
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I’ve had Norton Anti-Virus running on my PCs for pretty much as long as I’ve had PCs. With it, I’ve had almost no problems with viruses. But I’m –> < — this close to giving in to the “I hate Norton” crowd after installing Norton Anti-Virus 2006. My anti-virus definition subscription ran out earlier this [...]
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One of the tips in today’s Lockergnome newsletters was about a new, free service that reports to speed up your Internet connection by changing the DNS servers used. This article, on Chris Pirillo’s weblog, introduces OpenDNS. Here’s part of how they describe their service: Most DNS servers on the Internet are slow. Your computer uses [...]
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The end may be near. No, not the end that The Lord’s Witnesses’ predicted – that the United Nations building in New York City would be destroyed by a terrorist nuclear bomb. The end of their belief that the attack may actually be happening may be near. Here’s what is on the front page of [...]
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Answers in Genesis continues their creation of materials to help defend the Bible-based views of a young earth with a brochure, Seven Reasons Why We Should Not Accept Millions of Years. Its text is reprinted at the link above. The seven reasons are listed below. Follow the link for the explanations behind each of them. [...]
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Thanks to a great tip from The Office Letter, I just found Dominic and Elisabeth Brown’s homepage which contains what looks like a great add-in for Microsoft Excel. The Ultimate Add-In is an Excel extension that adds a new menu tree with more than 80 utilities and 20 custom functions. Even better, it’s free! The [...]
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Although I’ll likely date myself by using the word “cool” in this context (I’m told “tight” is much more up to date), Google Maps just got a bit more cool, in my estimation. It used to be that when you clicked the increase zoom or decrease zoom arrows in the upper left corner of a [...]
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I am not aware of a single instance where evolution has been conclusively, scientifically demonstrated. Every – and I do mean every – instance where science has claimed to show evolution hasn’t been evolution at all. Evolution, as it is commonly defined, is the change that occurs in a species adding information to the species. [...]
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NASA has a pretty cool video of the Space Shuttle launch from a camera mounted to one of the solid rocket boosters. It is linked on the shuttle multimedia web page, but I had to launch it using this URL in my web browser to view it.
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Someone named Sean Dietrich tried to leave a comment on my Read Through the King James Bible in a Year weblog early today. I had intended that the weblog be announce only with no comments and that comment helped me figure out what I had configured incorrectly. Any way, the comment was this: I am [...]
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