SciAm gives up

Scientific American gives up. In retrospect, this magazine’s coverage of socalled evolution has been hideously one-sided. For decades, we published articles in every issue that endorsed the ideas of Charles Darwin and his cronies. True, the theory of common descent through natural selection has been called the unifying concept for all of biology and one of the greatest scientific ideas of all time, but that was no excuse to be fanatics about it. ...

Pirate Bay

Pirate Bay has been receiving threats from various firms, like Microsoft, EA, SEGA, etc. Their response has been straightforward. via Dhar Hello and thank you for contacting us. We have shut down the website in question. Oh wait, just kidding. We haven’t, since the site in question is fully legal. Unlike certain other countries, such as the one you’re in, we have sane copyright laws here. But we also have polar bears roaming the streets and attacking people :-(. ...

Metafor

Metafor is a tool that turns English into code. Check out the movie demo and Hugo’s Metafor website.

Macropatron

Maciej Ceglowski invites you to become an Idlewords macropatron by donating $300,000. Only cheques. No Paypal. And smaller amounts won’t be accepted. Comments sathish 29 Mar 2005 12:00 pm: :).

How Yahoo got its mojo back

How Yahoo got its Mojo back.