A while back I wrote a few articles about a couple of gay penguins at the New York Zoo. Now it appears that maybe homosexual animals may not be so rare…
Joan Roughgarden thinks Charles Darwin made a terrible mistake. Not about natural selection—she’s no bible-toting creationist—but about his other great theory of evolution: sexual selection. According to Roughgarden, sexual selection can’t explain the homosexuality that’s been documented in over 450 different vertebrate species. This means that same-sex sexuality—long disparaged as a quirk of human culture—is a normal, and probably necessary, fact of life. By neglecting all those gay animals, she says, Darwin misunderstood the basic nature of heterosexuality.
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This religion has always fascintated me. How could people believe something which sounds so unbelievable. Ghosts, nuclear bombs, volcanos, aliens… all worked out by a man who wrote sciencefiction
[http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/~achille/scientology.html]
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I use my USB drive for everything. It runs Portable Firefox, Portable Thunderbird and also holds most of my files. While it’s great having these programs run no matter where I am, frequently backing up the data is a pain. I wanted an automatic solution. Unable to find a good solution on the net, I created one for myself.
Step 1: Create the folder you want to backup to (Mines c:\removablebackup)
Step 2: Create the backup batch file for your USB key. You can do this by inserting the following in a textfile and saving it as backup.bat. An example is provided below:
@echo off
echo -------------------
echo Removable Device Automatic Backup
echo -------------------
echo No Rights Reserved, do whatever you want with this.
xcopy "*" "c:\removablebackup\" /Y /E /R
echo Backup Complete!
Pause.
Make sure you change the section in bold to reflect your individual backup location.
Step 3: Place the following in a text document, and save it directly to your removable drive as autorun.inf:
[autorun]
action=Backup
open=backup.bat
label=Backup
includeRuntimeComponents=True
Step 4: Your done! Now whenever you insert your USB key you should see this nifty backup option:
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Today the MPAA released a triumphant press release, saying what a great day it was for anti-piracy.
Later the same day, ThePirateBay updated their homepage, claiming they will be back in 48 hours.
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The key to the age-old question apparently lies in the fact that since genetic material does not change throughout an animal’s life, the first bird that evolved into a chicken must have initially existed as an embryo inside an egg.
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We recommend you save the vodka and Sprite for mixing cocktails; you’re better off putting your flowers in plain water than adding these to the vase. Viagra, on the other hand, appears to be an excellent cut flower preservative. Although we imagine that most people would rather put it to its more conventional use, with a little pinch in the water, Viagra will keep the bloom on your rose longer.
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Seed has a really interesting article on why we haven’t, and are unlikely to, meet any ET’s in the near future.
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