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Has the internet taken the fun out of door-to-door fundamentalism?

Random, Science

It’s just with the internet you get to see new and completely ridiculous defences of creationism, the people who show up at your door are still going on about the odds of abiogenesis and using God-of-the-gaps arguments.

And generally English fundies aren’t as openly mental as their US counterparts so trying to trick them into saying something offensive doesn’t work.

Quix

Internet, Short

Quix is an interesting looking bookmarklet that does OmniWeb’s search shortcuts and a load more, but it’s cross browser, including the iPhone. (watch the video and read the help page) [via].

Using a CD DVD cleaner in your slot loading MacBook Pro drive works

Apple

Well it did for me, and that Google baiting title is because there were mixed reports on whether the cleaning CDs worked or not. I used the Philips SAC2560W cleaner and apart from being very loud when it spins round it seems to work fine. The MBP had been increasing fussy about which DVDs to play, especially rentals which tend to be scratched, but the 4 I’ve played in the last few days have worked first time.

I’m definitely not liable if it breaks your computer

So, now that the snow’s melted…

Moans, Science

…will the people who said global warming isn’t happening now admit that it’s warmer than a week ago therefore we’re all going to die (at the current rate the temperature will have increased to over 200°C by the end of the year)?

Magyar

Food, Internet, Web Design

The recent snow meant my delivery from Tesco didn’t was cancelled, but 2 great things.

  1. They sent me a £10 off voucher, which is nice
  2. Their website has a ‘My recent orders’ section, I can add everything from the last order, with the correct quantities, in a few seconds.

8600 reasons not to buy a MacBook Pro

Apple

Well, there’s actually one sadly my MBP is suffering from occasional blackouts on booting. On the plus side it’s a free fix out of warranty and I got to use the Genius Bar for the first time.

The trip included the least Apple-esque, but most Mac nerdery you can see in an external hard drive. The Steve would probably be unhappy that there’s an external drive which has a sticker with “GPU Test” printed on it, stuck on top of the previous sticker. But I enjoyed the fact the sticker was done in Myriad Pro.

The aim of anyone from Whitchurch is of course to crush Basingstoke

Apple, Football

Thanks to the excellent sigames.com community member Super Bladesman you can install a file and play any team in the top 10 levels of English football, so that includes Whitchurch United who I’ve got promoted to the Conference and most important done the below.

whitchurchbstoke.jpg

The only thing is that it thinks Longmeadow would fit 2000 people, which would be a bit of a squeeze, and also be 40-45% of the town’s population.

A bigger threat than terrorism and other links

Apple, Moans, Random, Web Design

Right/Wrong

Moans, TV

So in BBC land phoning someone and saying you fucked their granddaughter (which happened to be true) is an offence that results in 2 people losing their jobs, and 1 getting suspended.

But calling someone a Paki, like it’s the fucking 70s or something, is acceptable.

This seems odd.