Looks like at least one attempt at a new strategy for teaching shit as if it was science (creationism) is to get an education degree program accredited so that the Institute for Creation Research can churn out teachers that can infect the school system like viruses and eat children’s brains from the inside out.  A Texas representative is trying a new tactic to get the degree program approved:  exempt the ICR from the rules created by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board that rejected the last attempt by a unanimous 8-0 vote.

A new 231 page report outlines 12 key policy decisions that led to the current economic crisis.  Let’s hope that some facts start to do a couple of things:

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I think that right now it is sleeting in Seattle.

It was only a matter of time that this would be broken.  If you have one of these laptops that uses this software, you should disable it.

This is an excellent guide to the kinds of things that you may or may not be familiar with as possible sources of embarrassment on Facebook, or even just if you want to have more control over people monitoring you.  But you do have control over these things.  I might suggest the relationship one for many people – so that you only post to your profile relationship status changes that you really want to broadcast.

After sending out the umpteenth rebuttal of a demonstrably untrue email this week, I thought of at least two things that are negatively correlated with the truthfulness of the contents:

This is a very very cool site that allows searching by font names and even allows you to see a specific unicode font rendered in a variety of fonts local to your computer.

This is completely counter-intuitive.  The OpenOffice dialog for conditional formatting only lets you select from pre-defined “styles” by name (no autopreview) and no way to add a new style from the dialog.  I had to google this to find out how to modify existing styles.  Oy.  Sometimes the MS way is the better way…

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