My delicious.com bookmarks for August 25th through August 27th

August 27th, 2009

Clive Thompson on the New Literacy – Maybe the Internet isn't the end of literacy after all…
Galileo’s telescope reaches 400th anniversary – "Exactly 400 years ago today, on 25 August 1609, the Italian astronomer and philosopher Galilei Galileo showed Venetian merchants his new creation, a telescope – the instrument that was to bring him both scientific immortality and, more immediately, a whole lot of trouble."
Creationists, now they’re coming for your children – "The Greatest Show on Earth is a book about the positive evidence that evolution is a fact. It is not intended as an antireligious book. I’ve done that, it’s another T-shirt, this is not the place to wear it again. Bishops and theologians who have attended to the evidence for evolution have given up the struggle against it."

My delicious.com bookmarks for May 18th through May 26th

May 26th, 2009

Confessions of an Introverted Traveller – "We introverts have a different style of travel, and I’m tired of hiding it."
Towel Day – Celebrating the life and work of Douglas Adams – Do you have your towel with you today?
Jews: No Jesus, No Reason, Just Whining; They’re Motivated by Anger and Boohoo Victimhood – "Now… if I actually believed that, I’d be called every name in the book. And rightfully so. Those are ignorant, bigoted, hateful remarks. They’re also wildly stereotypical and extremely inaccurate. When Charlotte Allen says the exact same things about atheists, however, she gets published in the Los Angeles Times."

May 3rd, 2009

Birds show off their dance moves – Funny video, fascinating science, bad music…
Intelligent Design Sort – It would seem that intelligent design has "uses" outside explaining the diversity of nature. It works for Computer Science too. Who'd have thought it?
Scrap ID cards now, say Cabinet rebels – Maybe there is some benefit in the dire state of the economy…

February 7th, 2009

Pro-God buses for London streets – Anyone feel like complaining about these Christian ads on the ground that they make unsubstantiated claims?
House Approves Whitelist of People Who Aren't Terrorists – The solution to the errors and inconvenience of the no-fly list is… drum roll… another database! How could that possibly go wrong?
Exclusive: ID cards are here – but police can't read them – After spending shed-loads of money on ID cards, apparently the police and immigration officers can't read them.

January 12th, 2009

Welcome back, Palm – "After years in a persistent vegetative state, Palm has come roaring back with a gadget that's going to prove hard to beat in 2009." Not sure it's that good, but competition for Apple and RIM is always going to be a good thing.
The UK government’s plans to retain email data and rate online content will cost too much, destroy business, liberty and must be stopped – start making placards – The title pretty much says it all (though the rest of the article is also worth reading).
'No God' campaign draws complaint – "Organisation Christian Voice has complained to the Advertising Standards Authority saying they break rules on substantiation and truthfulness." Sometimes I read the headlines in my RSS feed and think it must be in NewsBiscuit or The Onion…