Charles Robert Darwin FRS (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist who realised and demonstrated that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors through the process he called natural selection. The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and much of the general public in his lifetime, while his theory of natural selection came to be widely seen as the primary explanation of the process of evolution in the 1930s, and now forms the basis of modern evolutionary theory. In modified form, Darwin’s scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences, providing logical explanation for the diversity of life. [Text from Wikipedia]

You might want to listen to the BBC In Our Time special on Darwin.

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It seems Google is reporting every web site as “This site may harm your computer”, including it’s own sites. Clicking on the No word yet on when this will be fixed, but I imagine it won’t take them too long.

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Liam teaches How to Manga

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Kim has a Kodak camera that makes movies in MOV format, with no option to save as AVI. We need AVI format video to use in Windows Movie Maker, because it WMM doesn’t like MOV (which is the default format of Apple’s Quicktime). So, after struggling with various converters that didn’t really work, I found (or re-discovered… I had used it before) MP4cam2AVI. It is free, as in Free Open Source, download from Sourceforge.

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Awesomely hilarious fighting giant robot inspired video from Nobody Beats the Drum (Dutch breakbeat)

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• All songs DRM free
• “… three price points—69 cents, 99 cents and $1.29—with many more songs priced at 69 cents than $1.29″

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I can’t believe it!
My son gave me World of Warcraft for Christmas with a free month. Everybody says the game is addictive etc, but I figure OK, I like this kind of game, I’ll try it out for a month or two. I install it before dinner and in installed fine. After dinner, I create a WoW account and start the game and sign in. It wants to install a patch. OK, I wait for the download, tens of megabytes, and install the patch. And it wants another. And another. Probably over 100 megabytes of downloaded patches. I joke “World of Patchcraft” (which I discover I’m not the first one to call it that). Am I done? Not even close. Now it is downloading a 2.6 GIGAbyte patch. Good lord. This is so worse that installing Windows. It is going download all night. It says “about 11 hours” now. Good lord.

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How many of these have you seen?

Seeing a “Geek Movies” list on Facebook inspired me to make this list of movies. I’d say its my geek list of movies. Not the best movies ever made. Not the best science fiction either. Not even a list of all the movies I’ve seen or plan on seeing. Some I don’t even like. Just that I think they in some way have Geek Cachet. Let’s just call it a Geek List of Movies.

(x) 12 Monkeys
(x) 1984
(x) 2001
( ) 2010
(x) 28 Days Later
(x) 28 Weeks Later
(x) A Scanner Darkly
(x) A.I. Artificial Intelligence
(x) Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
(x) Aeon Flux
(x) Akira
(x) Alien
( ) Alien 3
(x) Alien Resurrection
(x) Aliens
(x) Altered States
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Page 1 (of 3) of Kim and my comic, “Son, It’s Time You Knew“.

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