I’m likely to post little over the next week or so, as I’ll be in Devon, quite inconveniently, and how much I post depends entirely on the density of 3G coverage.
In the meantime, to liven things up a little, let’s have a caption competition!
Original image by ElinorD on Wikimedia Commons. Modified under license. An octopus in a zoo, discerningly eyeing the photographer.
Submit your entries using the comments form below. Entries should be in by 6pm on Friday, and by Sunday I should have chosen a winner. If I’m not feeling particularly stingey, that winner might obtain something more tangible than a small quantity of kudos.
I have been unable to see the Ben Stein movie Expelled. Yet. If I do, it’ll be as a comedy film, and I would plan to immediately microwave the disk and (probably) burn the DVD player as well. Then burn all my clothes and take an antiseptic bath.
Put simply, it’s Bible Belt phoney Christianity in a package that ceased to be trendy as soon as Busted separated. I can’t be bothered to write any more about it because it is undeserving of my time, but I strongly recommend Expelled Exposed, a Web site debunking the outrageous and insulting claims made in the film, which include:
- Darwin was an atheist. (No he wasn’t, he was an agnostic.)
- Hitler was a Darwinist. (He CLAIMED to have been Christian, but was almost certainly self-worshipping, considering himself to be a demigod.)
- Intelligent design research is being ignored or repressed by mainstream science. (What ID research?)
- Darwin was racist, and his book The Descent of Man indicates that he was racist. (Oh no he wasn’t: the text is cleverly misquoted to give this impression.)
- Evolution is a hoax. (It’s not.)
- So there. (Feck off.)
It’s 50 years since Sputnik I, the first man-made object to intentionally go into space, was launched. And, the BBC is challenging you to build your own ‘Sputnik emulator’ using a Tomy baby monitor, a biscuit tin, a wireless router, a desk fan, a balloon, a battery pack and a mercury thermometer.
I reckon you can do far better than that…
