Twinked!

Moving rapidly from frog-fighting street thug into the ranks of the newly rich, I met up with Chek in Star Wars Galaxies. Chek, being accomplished in the arcana of the game’s mechanics was throwing around goodies like credits and a nice hover bike now residing comfortably in the… well, pocket of yours truly. Biking in the sunset I was given a great tutorial and was later taken to see the stately – postcardly situated – houses of certain esteemed game researchers.
Oh, and Chek keeps some dragons around. And I think he is closer to the emperor than he cares to admit :-)

The Crusade against intelligence

Wired continues the story about The Crusade Against Evolution rightly noting that

This is an issue, of course, that was supposed to have been settled long ago.

Is the evolution of human beings (or other organisms) by natural selection a proven fact? No.
Is it a theory backed by a crushing yet increasing weight of evidence likely to convince anyone but the most hardened anti-materialist? Oh yes.

I’m so glad to live in Denmark where that debate could never occur.