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Friday, July 11, 2008

Life without JC

by Frank Paynter on July 11, 2008

Blogger Jason McCabe Calacanis, no relation to Charles McCabe (and therefore of little interest to readers of this blog), announced today that he will retire from blogging. There is some speculation that his retirement is mandated by the pending sale of his bicycle powered steam-punk search engine “Aloha” to Microsoft.

Calacanis intends to maintain connections with web communities through an email list.

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Darwin Strikes Back

by Frank Paynter on July 11, 2008

When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers, talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed … that was horrifying beyond words, and that’s where science — in my opinion, this is just an opinion — that’s where science leads you.
– Ben Stein

Ben Stein meets Darwin

Thanks to the friend who sent this my way. It’s titled “Ben Stein Meets Darwin.” It’s originally from the photo by Kelly Engstrom illustrating the Scientific American article Six Things in Expelled That Ben Stein Doesn’t Want You to Know…

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