Think you can fling your birds far in Angry Birds? Try putting them into orbit! Soyuz commander Anton Shkaplerov…

Think you can fling your birds far in Angry Birds? Try putting them into orbit! Soyuz commander Anton Shkaplerov brought a plush toy selected by his daughter onboard this evening’s launch to the International Space Station. Soyuz crews traditional tie a small item in the capsule to act as a “gravity indicator”. When it begins to float, they know they’re in space!

I think that most Conservatives (judging only by the people I personally know) actually fall into Camp #3 here. …

I think that most Conservatives (judging only by the people I personally know) actually fall into Camp #3 here. It’s as easy to adhere to a Biblical worldview as it is to adhere to a Rationalist worldview, but both are equally wrong.

Defining “personhood” in the way the Mississippi resolution does is wrong in every meaningful way. The underlying tragedy is that that the human experience underling the science is inaccessible to the zealots pushing the measure.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/irrelevant-science-of-eggs-and-embryos.html

Here’s the Krispy Kreme bacon cheeseburger (Lutherburger) photo I took back in June 2008. I casually uploaded it to…

Here’s the Krispy Kreme bacon cheeseburger (Lutherburger) photo I took back in June 2008. I casually uploaded it to flickr, and it took on a life of it’s own. I got emails from people asking for the hi-res version for publication (“sorry, it was taken with my iPhone…”) and even ended up on Shepard Smith’s show on Fox News, the clip of which was on The Daily Show’s “Moment of Zen”.