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God or Darwin? some statistics...

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:58:25 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus
clipper's remarks: though i used the same headline as the article, i do not agree to it. Evolution is not equal to religion and they are merely two different perspectives of the same reality. Each one portrays a different worldview, a different world, a different view. the direction in religion is one of preservation, maintaining the existing order as it , whilst in evolution the dynamics are in constant motion of exploring new orders which by nature are transitory.

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

God or Darwin? The world in evolution beliefs

Find out where on earth only 8% of people believe in evolution

The British Council has asked, with the help of Ipsos MORI, over ten thousand adults across ten countries from China to the USA, just what they think of evolution.

The results show that the majority of adults surveyed have heard of
Charles Darwin and know at least a little about his theory of
evolution. But they also show that there are significant minorities of people who either want nothing to do with evolution - and think it should either not be taught in schools or alongside creationism.

Beliefs in evolution

Countries

Heard of Darwin

Agree the scientific evidence for evolution exists

Think it is possible to believe in a God and evolution simultaneously

Argentina 86 44 62 China 90 55 39 Egypt 38 8 45 Great Britain 91 51 54 India 62 38 85 Mexico 91 52 65 Russia 93 39 54 South Africa 27 8 54 Spain 72 39 46 USA 84 33 53

Tags: evolution, darwin, religion

Megalists, Resources & How-Tos

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:15:16 GMT

clipped by: mugofcoffee
clipper's remarks: Friends, this list is really something..for the rest of the mega list visit the site...

Clip Source: mashable.com

100 Great Resources for Design Inspiration

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85+ Tools & Resources for Freelancers and Web Workers

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Delicious Toolbox: 80+ Updated Tools and Resources

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HOW TO GUIDE: 60+ Great How To Sites and Resources

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YouTube Toolbox: 100+ Tools and Resources to Enhance Your Video Experience

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GTD Toolbox: 100+ Resources for Getting Things Done

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Google Maps: 100+ Best Tools and Mashups

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100+ More Wiki Tools and Resources

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100+ More Ways to Organize Your Life

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Web Design Toolbox: 130+ New Tools to Make You a Better and Faster Designer

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Web Development Toolbox: 120+ New Tools for Web Development

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100+ Sites for Green Living

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Watch Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Movie Online for Free

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:58:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Watch Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) the Movie Online for Free:

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What if Lincoln Had Used Twitter :-?

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:32:47 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus

Clip Source: www.time.com

history is a funny thing. Take the Pilgrims, for example. Not only do they look ridiculous — (hat buckles? really?) — but you can make fun of them without fear of accidentally offending someone. This is the brilliance of the website historicaltweets.com.

has re-imagined famous moments throughout history as Twittered by the people who experienced them

Odysseus: "Back home! Who r all these random dudes?"

Lou Gehrig: "Found a penny on the sidewalk! I'm the luckiest man on the face of this earth."

Al Capone: April 15 AGAIN?!?!

Buzz Aldrin: @NeilArmstrong: you go first

James Joyce: 140 characters? A sentence of such fractured length would have barely begun to scratch at the surface of man's vain, insignificant —
James Joyce: Damn.

Claude Monet: I feel like I've seen this haystack before...

Monica Lewinsky: Note to self: drop off dry-cleaning

Henry VIII: Women. Can't live with 'em, can't live wi—ooooh.

Lassie: Idiot child fell down the mine shaft again. That makes 3 times in one week.

Clip Source: historicaltweets.com

Tags: twitter, funny, history

Sarah's Straight Talk

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:13:21 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: "Perhaps there is some new and interesting scandal that Palin has yet to let us in on. (If so, I hope it involves a soul mate.) Otherwise, it would appear that this is all about her desire to start raising money and setting up operations for a presidential run in 2012
So if she’s starting to run, it will be as the same reporter-avoiding, generalization-spouting underachiever that she was last time around.

Now we know she not only doesn’t have the concentration to read a policy paper, she can’t focus long enough to finish the job she was hired to do."

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Truly, Sarah Palin has come a long way. When she ran for vice president, she frequently became disjointed and garbled when she departed from her prepared remarks. Now the prepared remarks are incoherent, too.

Smiling manically, she looked like a parody of the woman who knocked the Republicans dead at their convention. She babbled about her parents’ refrigerator magnet, which apparently had a lot of wise advice. And she recalled her visit with the troops in Kosovo, whose dedication and determination inspired her to ... resign.

The timing of Palin’s announcement was extremely peculiar. Not only did she interrupt the plans of TV newscasters to spend the entire weekend pointing out that Michael Jackson is still dead, she delivered her big news just as the nation was settling into Fourth of July celebrations. You’d have thought she didn’t want us to notice.

Did an embezzlement scandal force Palin to resign?

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:32:36 GMT

clipped by: disenchantedcitizen
clipper's remarks: Alaska bloggers have reported in recent weeks that “a long simmering embezzlement/IRS scandal is still being looked at by the feds.”

In her press conference today, Palin asked the public to “trust me with this decision and know that it is no more politics as usual.”

She’s right about one thing, stepping down is in the best interest of Alaska.

Clip Source: thinkprogress.org

Max Blumental reports on The Daily Beast that Sarah Palin may have quit her job today because she was trying to avert a major, yet-to-be-disclosed corruption scandal.

The gist of the rumor is that an Alaska building company called Spenard Building Supplies (SBS) was awarded a contract by Palin to build a hockey arena in Wasilla, AK, and in return, SBS helped construct Palin’s home

Many political observers in Alaska are fixated on rumors that federal investigators have been seizing paperwork from SBS in recent months, searching for evidence that Palin and her husband Todd steered lucrative contracts to the well-connected company in exchange for gifts like the construction of their home on pristine Lake Lucille in 2002

Though Todd Palin told Fox News he built his Lake Lucille home with the help of a few “buddies,” according to Barrett’s report, public records revealed that SBS supplied the materials for the house

A Fresh Fourth

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:28:55 GMT

clipped by: debbyski

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Looked at from a certain distance, all of the Independence Days in one’s life resemble a string of firecrackers. Bang, bang, bang, bang, and suddenly here you are in the present, on another Fourth, thinking about the difference between this one and the ones that came before it — the weather and the menu and the fireworks and the friends and family you celebrate with.

The Declaration of Independence speaks of truths and rights, but we are more likely to understand that document in terms of the freedoms we feel. And yet how often do we really enumerate those freedoms, really assess their costs and count up the obligations they imply?

It’s tempting to seek a kind of refuge in the Saturday-ness of this Fourth, to let the meaning of the holiday slip a little in the interest of a relaxing day in the backyard or at the beach

But there is a special understanding and joy in having struggled for it

The Art of Manliness: Carry a Pocket knife

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:19:13 GMT

clipped by: Spiritualmonkey

Clip Source: artofmanliness.com

It used to be that a pocket knife was an essential item that a man carried with him. You had your wallet, your keys, and your trusty pocket knife.

Men have been carrying pocket knives for centuries. But with increased security at the airport and other buildings, knives have been disappearing from men’s pockets. Yet these minor obstacles are not sufficient reason to give up carrying a knife completely. The carrying of a pocket knife is a man tradition that should be continued.

Why a Man Should Carry a Pocket Knife

1. Opening a box.

2. Cutting rope, tags, and string.

3. Cutting an apple.

4. Opening a letter

5. Weapon.

6. Camping

7. You never know when you’re going to have to MacGyver your way out of a crisis. Be prepared.

Jack knife. A jack knife has a simple hinge at one end, and may have more than one blade.

Pen knife. A pen knife is hinged at both ends of the handle, and usually has two or three blades at each end

Multi-purpose knife.

Lock blade knife.

Where to Get a Pocket Knife

Tags: knives, pocket-knife, manliness, art-of-manliness, tools

Clipmarks 4.0 Now Available - supports Firefox 3.5

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:32:35 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: Our upgraded version of Clipmarks is now available. If you click the source link of this clip you'll be able to get it. Anyone having problems, please comment below and we'll try to work them out.

If you wouldn't mind, please pop this clip so others are made aware.

Clip Source: addons.mozilla.org

Clipmarks 4.0.0

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Are Planets 'Living Super-Organisms'?

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:03:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: more (at source): He wants to find out if the continents will merge again in 250 million years to form a single super-continent; how meteorites change the chemical composition of the Earth; and what the connection is between the temperature of a planet and its magnetic field, which protects plants and animals from being bombarded with cosmic radiation, which in turn influences the rate of mutations and thus the development of new forms of life.

Clip Source: www.disinfo.com

Daily Galaxy: Japan's Maruyama Shigenori, one of the world's leading geophysicists, is working on a global formula for a new field of study that would include dozens of disciplines collaborating to produce an overall picture of the Earth. As he connects the links from astronomy to life sciences, an outline emerges of an all-encompassing image of entire planets which appear as living super-organisms.

Shigenori believes that expanding the study of life sciences to the core of our world and the depths of outer space will help us find distant relatives of our own Earth — planets that could also sustain life.

Maruyama is creating a new institute called the Center for Bio-Earth Planetology will be launched in 2009 and fully dedicated to creating a new conception of life in space.

Behind The Facade

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:18:29 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: "Reality is unforgiving. There is no escape.
The Michael-mania that has erupted since Jackson’s death — not just an appreciation of his music, but a giddy celebration of his life — is yet another spasm of the culture opting for fantasy over reality. We don’t want to look under the rock that was Jackson’s real life.

As with so many other things, we don’t want to know."

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Meeting Michael Jackson in the mid-1980s was one of the creepier experiences of my life.

There was something about his overall behavior that weirded me out. He seemed, even then, to be a person who was trying with all of his being to step outside of reality and leave it behind.

Emmanuel Lewis, the child star of the hit TV series “Webster,” was with Jackson that evening.

I remember thinking as I left the Garden that Jackson had treated Lewis almost as a pet.

In many ways we descended as a society into a fantasyland, trying to leave the limits and consequences and obligations of the real world behind. Politicians stopped talking about the poor. We built up staggering amounts of debt and called it an economic boom. We shipped jobs overseas by the millions without ever thinking seriously about how to replace them. We let New Orleans drown.

As US talks tough, Jewish settlements keep booming

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:08:32 GMT

clipped by: tabsey
clipper's remarks: They will not be happy until the last of the Palestinians has been driven into the sea or dead. Then they will start on other countries around them. Obama will not hold any sway. He is expected to support their every move, as did his predecessors.

Clip Source: www.theage.com.au

CHAIM Hanfling knows a lot about this settlement's population boom.

Six of his 11 siblings have moved here from Jerusalem in recent years to take advantage of lower land prices, and at 29 he has added four children of his own.

Just over the Green Line that marks the territory occupied in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, the booming ultra-Orthodox community, home to more than 41,000 people, shows why the settlement freeze demanded by the Obama Administration is proving controversial for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and why Palestinian officials are insisting on it.

Amid their gleaming, modern apartment buildings, residents say they have little in common with the people who have hauled mobile homes to hilltops in hopes of deepening Israel's presence in the occupied West Bank. But they expect the bulldozers and cement mixers to keep supplying larger schools and more housing, a demand that the country's political leadership is finding hard to refuse.

Tags: poliyics

GOP Senator-Defender of Freedom, NOT!

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:22:56 GMT

clipped by: ratilfar
clipper's remarks: GOP, the party of military coups.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) has come out in support of the military coup in Honduras, chastising President Obama in a statement for what he calls "a slap in the face to the people" of that country.

The majority of world leaders have condemned the coup, confirmed by a resolution approved Tuesday approved by the United Nations General Assembly.

President Obama is one of them.

The United States will "stand on the side of democracy," he said, and work with other nations and international groups to resolve the matter peacefully.

"We believe that the coup was not legal and that President Zelaya remains the democratically elected president there," he continued.

"Concerns or doubts about the wisdom of [Zelaya's] actions relating to his proposed non-binding referendum are independent of the unconstitutional act taken against him," an administration official added.

Tags: gop, defender, of, tyranny, honduras, military, coup

Urge Australian PM to Stop Lamb Mutilations

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:09:33 GMT

clipped by: brightlight4

Clip Source: action.peta.org.uk

Urge Australian PM to Stop Lamb Mutilations

Rather than focusing its efforts on good animal husbandry and long-term humane solutions like bare-breech breeding, the Australian wool industry wastes time and effort on cheap, cruel flystrike-control methods, like painful plastic mulesing "clips". These so-called "alternatives" are ineffective, inhumane and unacceptable to retailers and consumers around the world. And each year, millions of sheep discarded by the Australian wool industry are crammed onto export ships to be sent to the Middle East. Sheep who survive the terrifying voyage are often dragged off trucks by their ears and legs, tied up and beaten and have their throats slit while they are still conscious.

Please write to Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd right now and ask him to ban mulesing mutilations. Demand that only effective, humane alternatives be used instead, and urge him to put an end to the cruel live-export industry.

Obama 'meddles' in Honduras -- and chooses the wrong side

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:15:29 GMT

clipped by: Newzworth
clipper's remarks: Its surely tough to make decisions about the diplomatic posture America should take when defending (or supporting) liberty and democracy around the world. Especially when you hardly believe in in yourself. Its gonna be a tough 3.5 years for Obama at this rate.

Clip Source: www.nydailynews.com

Obama 'meddles' in Honduras -- and chooses the wrong side

Thursday, July 2nd 2009, 4:46 PM

Like his chief backer, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Zelaya was intent on rewriting his country's constitution to abolish term limits.

When the country's Supreme Court declared his actions unconstitutional and the country's top military officer informed Zelaya that he would not carry out his orders to oversee a sham election, Zelaya fired him. Zelaya then led a mob of supporters - including armed thugs supplied by Chavez and Nicaraguan Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega - to try to steal the ballots.

Clip Source: www.nydailynews.com

Nevertheless, the Pentagon has cut off all cooperation with the Honduran military and Obama administration officials told The New York Times of their intention to give the poverty-stricken Central American nation "a taste of isolation" (would they threaten such consequences for the mullahs in Iran?).

Washington, which has been so reluctant to support democracy in far away Persia

Tags: honduras, zelaya, supreme court, central america, democracy