pharyngula said it perfectly:

This is one of the reasons we godless need to be militant in expressing our ideas: there are children out there right now who have the potential for genius, but their talents are being shunted into the futile wasteland of religiosity. Yes, there are a lot of atheists in the topmost ranks of successful scientists, but it's not because they are intrinsically smarter than someone who believes in gods — it's because they more easily embrace the mode of thinking that is most productive and successful in scientific fields, and are less burdened with absurd presuppositions. Let's stop handicapping our kids.

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WOW.

After seeing BraWn GP's pace all weekend, the only really surprising part of their performance was Barrichello's stall at the beginning. Piqued? Read on...

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F1 TV season in .us begins in 45 minutes. I will probably be asleep; I have to be at work stupidly early in the morning. I'm so excited; it's funny how at the end of a season it feels like it's going to be forever until the racing starts, but when it does finally start it seems like last season just ended a couple of weeks ago. Piqued? Read on...

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Nihilism. It's not just for breakfast anymore.

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I finally found the killer app for the iphone.

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The FIA has changed the rules for winning a championship. The driver with the most race wins gets the championship, ties decided by points. This is basically a flip from the former system based on points and ties decided by victories. The constructor's championship still works strictly on points.

I feel mixed about this. Piqued? Read on...

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Jaybird JB-200
Stereo Bluetooth headphones
Jaybird's website
amazon.com

I received the JB-200 headphones about a week ago, and I've been listening to them every day since. I wanted a pair of A2DP stereo headphones that were light, unobtrusive and not likely to fall out or bounce around while excercising. I've previously had the Motorola S9, and I didn't like them at all. The band across the back would catch on my collar and jam the earbuds toward the front of my skull, a singularly less than pleasant sensation. Also, they made a clicking noise every 4 seconds. I know it's not my blackberry, because other headphones didn't click.

After looking around on the web, I found the Jaybird JB-200. Marketed towards the mobile, excercising crowd, these were billed as the most unobtrusive, secure, waterproof bluetooth headphones available. I checked out some of the reviews, found that people generally liked them a lot,  so I bought a pair. Piqued? Read on...

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Book Review:
Still Broken: A Recruit's Inside Account of Intelligence Failures, from Baghdad to the Pentagon
AJ Rossmiller
MobiPocket ebook
ISBN-10: 0891419144
ISBN-13: 978-0891419143
amazon.com

I enjoyed reading this book. I felt it was a small glimmer into a world that I will never be a part of, but affects me everyday. AJ was hired out of college into the state department, and worked as an intelligence analyst. This book chronicles his rise from a young, idealistic junior adminstrator to young, idealistic junior intgelligence analyst, and his subsequent resignation from his post after explaining to his management exactlty what's wrong with them. Piqued? Read on...

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I get a lot of URLs in my mail, lists and friends and mostly from myself while I'm at work. Thunderbird, unfortunately, breaks any URL that extends longer than 1 line, and this has been annoying me to no end. Piqued? Read on...

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