Hillary Clinton and John McCain want to suspend the national gas tax for the duration of the summer, when travelers drive the most. And they’re jumping down Barack Obama’s throat for opposing the plan. The big reasoning for the suspension is to help Americans pay to fill their cars, but it won’t help very much [...]
ProFont is my favorite monospaced programming font. You can see it in this shot here: For my own future reference, here’s how you get ProFont working in Debian Etch: cd tmp wget http://www.tobiasjung.net/download.php?file=ProFontWinTweaked.zip wget http://www.tobiasjung.net/download.php?file=profont-x11.tar.gz unzip ProFontWinTweaked.zip tar xzvf profont-x11.tar.gz sudo cp ProFontWinTweaked/ProFontWindows.ttf /usr/local/share/fonts sudo cp profont-x11/* /usr/local/share/fonts sudo fc-cache -fv sudo mkfontdir /usr/local/share/fonts Finally, [...]
I took some time last night and played with Git for a bit. Git is a distributed version control system written by Linus Torvalds to manage the Linux kernel. Git recently gained a bit of notoriety because some big projects (in addition to the kernel) like Ruby on Rails are switching to Git. The whole [...]
The New York Times weighs in on Expelled: Every few minutes familiar — and ideologically unrelated — images interrupt the talking heads: a fist-shaking Nikita S. Khrushchev; Charlton Heston being subdued by a water hose in “Planet of the Apes.†This is not argument, it’s circus, a distraction from the film’s contempt for precision and [...]
Today they have a video about Chris Comer, who was forced to resign from her job for failing to remain neutral on the Evolution vs. Creationism issue in Texas public schools:
Scientific American has a review of Expelled: Expelled is a movie not quite harmless enough to be ignored. Shrugging off most of the film’s attacks – all recycled from previous pro-ID works – would be easy, but its heavy-handed linkage of modern biology to the Holocaust demands a response for the sake of simple human [...]