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No, no, I get that. I just find it ... inspiring ... that you've almost met a target you didn't even set.

Ignoring for the moment the stated target of $10,000, given the individual targets of the first/just charities, the target seems to be something around $27k (~,£16k=$10k + ,£10k). Mind you, you're only just a bit short of that.

Watch and be convinced.

Done! (the GIMP can be awesome) The blank billboard, at 4x The font: Trebuchet MS bold 88px for the 4x billboard (which I use just so it's easier to add believable noise to the font), or 22px for the original size. The color is #273234. A 1px blur, with invert 2px blur behind at 33% alpha...

I keep falling into a loop. Absolute truth: True for all people at all times, universally true. I don't know that absolute truth exists. This statement is absolutely true, but limited specifically in its wording, to me. As such, it IS a glitch. ... having told them what they want to hear ...

Check this site: Energy from Thorium/ It's basically a blog for a physicist grad student's investigation into the potential for applying molten salt reactor designs to the use of Thorium-232 as a nuclear fuel. To me, it looks promising, and the process' products are, apparently, mostly...

I do think that understanding of any nature, however, brings an aspect of beauty from complexity to almost anything. It's like, a transmission looks like a pile of gears until you understand the fantastic and deterministic dance that the gears trace during operation. Theo Jansen's walkers is...

Nah. Avogadro's number isn't anything inherently special; it's just the definition of a gram in terms of AMU.

That is no heresy at all. The FSM (sauce be upon him) may be unknowable, but in that His Noodly Appendages have tied piracy inversely to Global Warming, we can guess that He has an absurd sense of humor. "Trickster", then, fits in with our limited understanding of His starchy, meaty personality.

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@gas mask: Are you my mommy?

Definitely not 7. Too hard to divide by 7 in your head.

Still, the most important concern for Texans is, given her generally anti-public-schooling bias, is she going to further nerf Texas public schools? Because I would not be down with that. I don't even live in Texas - but they do migrate from there to everywhere else.

I disagree strongly with this assessment. First, the idea that all nature is beautiful If you've ever seen a tubifex colony (see Pharyngula last week), you know nature can be not only ugly, but nauseating. The idea that violence stems from guilt at uglifying the world is ludicrous; lions...

Can't wait for tomorrow's ep! Sorry; terrible fanboy here.

Eh, it's not that weird. They're just different in how their energy is distributed; e.g., in more photons vs. higher frequency. Hooray for Planck!

The spot is a sort of meta-object. That is to say, it's the continuous path of light bouncing off the surface of the moon. Nothing, in this case, is travelling faster than light. What appears to be travelling FTL is the resultant stream. Picture, for a moment, a super soaker with a...

Irrelevant. According to YT's ToS, if you put it up, you waive copyright to the YT community. Her claim is invalid.

One that I've noticed is the appeal to authority, rather than to results. "Every credentialed biologist in the country accepts evolution; what's wrong with you??"

Sometimes I think it might be a good idea to codify the scientific method as a religious dogma, and restrict access to scientific equipment (i.e., life's niceties) to "true believers" - that is, skeptics with the need to test everything. The "Test of Faith" could be a relatively simple test...