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Biologists: owning creationists since the eighteenth century

Posted by Rudd-O at Jan 06, 2009 10:41 AM |

For the past two hundred years, no person claiming to be educated could have possibly entertained the idea that we are here due to "intelligent design". A ten-minute blitzglance into elementary biology makes that fact painfully obvious to evolution denialists.

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How to solve network data corruption with Realtek cards

Posted by Rudd-O at Jan 03, 2009 03:05 AM |
Filed under: Fedora Realtek bugs Linux tips

Do you have a Realtek card driven by the r8169 driver, and you're experiencing SSH, SSL or rsync errors associated to the error message "Disconnected: Corrupted MAC on input"? Do you download large files only to find them corrupted? Here's the solution.

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The bullshit detection kit

Posted by Rudd-O at Jan 02, 2009 10:22 PM |
Filed under: lies science

A few years ago, the inimitable Carl Sagan developed a set of "rules of thumb" to separate truth from crap. Here they are.

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El kit detector de bazofia

Posted by Rudd-O at Jan 02, 2009 10:22 PM |
Filed under: mentiras ciencia

Hace algunos años, el inigualable Carl Sagan desarrollo un juego de "reglas de buen cubero" para separar la verdad de la chatarra. Aquí están.

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Cómo se hacen las canicas

Posted by Rudd-O at Jan 01, 2009 06:43 PM |

¿Recuerdas cuando eras pelado y jugabas con canicas de vidrio? Bueno, pues, así se fabrican.

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How marbles are made

Posted by Rudd-O at Jan 01, 2009 06:43 PM |
Filed under: interesting HOWTO marbles

Remember playing with marbles when you were a kid? Well, here's how marbles are made, both the small ones and the big ones.

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Pélame la banana

Posted by Rudd-O at Jan 01, 2009 03:59 PM |
Filed under: haha! Japón bananas

¡Qué bestia!

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Can you peel bananas like this?

Posted by Rudd-O at Jan 01, 2009 03:59 PM |
Filed under: Japan haha! bananas

Shit, man!

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What your parents, your church and your government have in common

Posted by Rudd-O at Jan 01, 2009 04:39 AM |

Pointless rules aren't "pointless" if you look at them from another perspective. Here's that perspective.

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Lo que tus padres, tu iglesia y tu Gobierno tienen en común

Posted by Rudd-O at Jan 01, 2009 04:39 AM |

Las reglas sin sentido sí tienen sentido... si las miras desde otro ángulo. He aquí ese ángulo.

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...so, an older male may provide oral sex to a young male...

Posted by Rudd-O at Jan 01, 2009 02:27 AM |

Holy shit, bonobos are disturbing monkeys!

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+1 (916) CALL-TURK

+1 (916) CALL-TURK

Posted by Rudd-O at Dec 31, 2008 12:55 AM |
Filed under: television haha! Scrubs

It works. Yes, it does.

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Predictably irrational

Posted by Rudd-O at Dec 29, 2008 09:43 PM |

We go apeshit at the mention of "free stuff". "No" doesn't necessarily mean "no" when we're horny. You will shop around for cheap cigarettes, but not for an expensive suit. Economics is dead wrong. And many other interesting findings.

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Dimensions

Posted by Rudd-O at Dec 24, 2008 12:35 AM |

An interesting video about the geometry of the Earth... that was deduced before the year 1 BCE!

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Every kid wanted one of those in the eighties...

Every kid wanted one of those in the eighties...

Posted by Rudd-O at Dec 24, 2008 12:08 AM |
Filed under: around the Internets cool

...and I actually had one when I was three years old.

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How life originated from nonlife

Posted by Rudd-O at Dec 23, 2008 09:27 PM |
Filed under: RNA life abiogenesis biology

We haven't been able to determine how non-living forms gave way to lifeforms. Up to now.

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The animal cruelty movement is wrong

Posted by Rudd-O at Dec 20, 2008 01:25 PM |

Punishing people for animal cruelty makes no sense and is immoral. Here's why.

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Have a newish NVIDIA GeForce and experiencing freezes with desktop effects enabled?

After fixing your video card issues, you can enjoy the full range of desktop effects available with Compiz and KWin in KDE 4.1 and above.

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How to make your video or music player play on another sound card in Fedora (and Ubuntu)

Posted by Rudd-O at Dec 15, 2008 09:30 PM |

The latest iterations of popular Linux distros Fedora and Ubuntu include PulseAudio. Make sure you learn about it!

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Obama's illegitimate son living in Latin America?

Posted by Rudd-O at Dec 12, 2008 11:01 AM |
Filed under: haha! Obama

Apparently, he works at a gas station too!

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