I just added a script from Ice Rocket to see if I can track how many (if any) linkbacks I am getting.  Link Tracker seems to work more indipendently than other ping back services I have seen.  So at the bottom of each post now you will see "Linking Posts".  Following that link will show you a search engine result from Ice Rocket for all other blog posts which reference the one here at Green Scissors.

 Ummm.  Yes please?  I’ll take 4. Worth looking through their site (warning, lots of needless Flash sound).  I especially liked the list of games.  Tre impressive!

DreamAuthentics Personal Video Arcade machines –

Soooo sweet — DreamAuthentics is putting out a Personal Video Arcade machine line geared towards consumers, with a bunch of units in true old skool arcade cabinet style. They don’t just play the classics, but can run a slew of games from the Xbox and Playstation consoles as well as off-the-shelf PC games. They’ve got several configurations to choose from, each coming pre-loaded with twelve classic arcade games, plus you can watch DVDs, listen to music and hook in your cable as well, although just standing in front of an arcade console to watch videos doesn’t seem nearly as exciting as getting your Asteroids on. As you may imagine, these things aren’t cheap, and all will run you into the several $K region. We’re thinking of raising some cash by putting all of our exergaming equipment up on eBay — screw that health crap!

[Thanks, Mike]

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 Civil Liberties be damned!  At least in Iraq apparently.Hard to imagine that the Iraqi people are excited about the prospect of a constitutional democracy when they see how we are managing ours.

Let’s see, soldiers breaking into homes.  People detained for months with no access to family or legal counsel while the case against you is kept completely secret.  Say, didn’t we just throw out the last guy who did that? 

Reuters cameraman ordered held in Abu Ghraib (Reuters) –

Reuters – A cameraman for Reuters in Iraq has been ordered by a secret tribunal to be held without charge in Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison until his case is reviewed within six months, a U.S. military spokesman said on Wednesday.

(Via Yahoo! Top Stories)

 Good for her!  Takes a bit of courage to tell the bus driver that your taking the rest of his kids because he’s drunk.

Girl Turns in Drinking School Bus Driver (AP) – AP – A teenager took matters into her hands when a substitute school bus driver who smelled of alcohol sped down the road with youngsters in tow, police said.

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 Today’s article on this Intelligent Design nonsense makes the same points against ID but with some twists and flavors I hadn’t heard before.  Specifically, that ID is an attempt by those using it to bolster their own faith in the Creator by making it fit with science.

Rand Simberg Teaches Intelligent Design –

Rand Simberg Teaches "Intelligent Design"
In a great column by Cathy Young. It takes him only a paragraph:

”Intelligent design" boils down to the claim sarcastically summed up by aerospace engineer and science consultant Rand Simberg on his blog, Transterrestrial Musings: ”I’m not smart enough to figure out how this structure could evolve, therefore there must have been a designer." Simberg, a political conservative, concludes that this argument ”doesn’t belong in a science classroom, except as an example of what’s not science."

Here’s the rest of the paragraph from Rand’s blog:

How science works is by putting forth theories that are disprovable, not ones that are provable. When all other theories have been disproven, those still standing are the ones adopted by most scientists. ID is not a scientific theory, because it fails the test of being disprovable (or to be more precise, non-falsifiable), right out of the box. If Hugh doesn’t believe this, then let him postulate an experiment that one could perform, even in thought, that would show it to be false.

And a bit more:

The point is that ID isn’t science–it’s a copout on science and the scientific method, and as I said in my post a couple years ago, creationists attempting to get their views into science class, whether explicitly as the 6000-year-old solution or dressed up as science, as in ID, is a failure of their own personal faith in their own beliefs. They seem to think that if science doesn’t validate their faith, then their faith is somehow thereby weakened, and that they must fight for its acceptance in that realm.

But that’s nonsense. Faith is faith. It by definition requires a suspension of disbelief. If their faith hasn’t the strength to withstand science, then they should reexamine their faith, not attempt (one hopes in futility) to bring down a different belief system that is entirely orthogonal to it.

 

This stuff is dark chocolate ice cream for the head.

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