Bill Maher’s Religulous is out on DVD today, February 17, 2009!
Pick up a copy or rent it. This movie is worth seeing; it’s funny and scary at the same time.
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NetworkedBlogs App on Facebook
This is a very smart move for Facebook. Although I’ve subscribed to Facebook since it was just a college network, I quickly lost interest once they started allowing all kinds of stupid games and useless applications. But now you can follow blogs from Facebook, which is a very useful and productive tool.
Blog reading on Facebook is becoming a popular activity. One of the top applications for following blogs through the social networking site is NetworkedBlogs, an app which launched last year bringing the blog community to the Facebook platform. Half MyBlogLog, half RSS reader, the application lets users add their blog, favorite the blogs of their friends, and click through the latest headlines. Most importantly, the app brings blogs to the more mainstream Facebook audience.
Twitter Tweets
Twitters popularity is growing quickly. The site’s membership has increased by 900% in one year! It is being used not only to stay up-to-date with friends, it is also being used for marketing, as a news source and as a way to get just about any information instantly; short and tweet…
I just read a tweet stating that twitter received another $35 million in venture capital. This money is added to $20 million from past investments. Yet twitter currently makes no money at all! They don’t sell advertising and their service is free to users. Interesting.
But investors obviously see money-making potential in twitter. It will be interesting to see how they will make a profit for their investors. Hopefully the inevitable changes will be positive for users.
Sorry to long;-)
And happy Friday the 13th!
Happy 200th Birthday!
Charles Darwin was born 200 years ago today. Yet many Americans do not believe in evolution. Really, it is not a question of believing, it’s more a question of understanding. What many people don’t understand is that evolution is a FACT. It happened and is happening now. Darwin’s “theory” of evolution is simply the best explanation we have at this time.
Steven Jay Gould explained that evolution is both a fact and a theory. “And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world’s data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts do not go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein’s theory of gravitation replaced Newton’s, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from apelike ancestors whether they did so by Darwin’s proposed mechanism or by some other, yet to be discovered.”
So while we can debate a theory, the facts are indisputable. Yet a scary percentage of Americans still deny the basic fact of evolution.
This chart depicts the public acceptance of evolution theory in 34 countries in 2005. Adults were asked to respond to the statement: “Human beings, as we know them, developed from earlier species of animals.” The percentage of respondents who believed this to be true is marked in blue; those who believed it to be false, in red; and those who were not sure, in yellow.
This is not a true or false question folks! The human brain is evolving way too slowly in some people!
Chewie
I got another nice comment via one of my Comic Con Flickr photos:
“I was the guy in that Chewie costume and I have to say that brief moment with Eric was the highlight of my trip to NYCC. I just showed my wife the picture. Thanks!”
I had mentioned in my first Comic Con post that I wasn’t sure who got more looks at the conference, the people in the costumes or Eric in his chair. But it is nice to know that Eric makes such a positive impact for some folks. I’ve always believed that the best way for our kids to be accepted by society is to get them out there and to help educate people. Sometimes it’s like living in a fish bowl, but the positives far out-weigh the negatives.
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