I knew that Darwin was religious, the atheist bit was for Beck. Notice I said atheist, Beck introduced me to Darwin day, Beck is a atheist, the post is for him mainly.

Albert, did you know that Darwin was a deeply religious man? If he somehow managed to reconcile his beliefs with the scientific theories he'd developed, why can't others? Besides which, I doubt all atheists agree with Darwin.

Darwin, Newton, Gallileo... and many others - the very scientists who threw religion on its head - were all very very religious people, and found their own ways of reconciling their religion with the science they conducted.

Okay you crazy atheist!

Happy Darwin Day!

was I not paying attention? Did Percy join us for boxing day shopping? or did he go to future shop on his own?

he must still be alive... right? has anyone heard from him lately?

Bad Movie Night fodder?

The weekend's worst punchline, however, is reserved for Paris Hilton's The Hottie & the Nottie (Regent Releasing). The final count will show that the critically reviled comedy featuring the seemingly talentless Hilton has sold a meager $25,500 in tickets at 111 locations over the weekend. That's only $230 per screen for theaters that were convinced to book this disaster. That means that, based on an $8 average ticket price, 29 paying customers showed up at each location over the 3-day. In a country that seems fascinated with Paris Hilton, only 3,219 unlucky Americans will have been suckered into seeing Hottie by Monday morning.

In case you missed it:

did you know there's a "Muppet Wiki?"

please explain to me how we have a "Windchill Warning Ended" notice and the windchill is still -34? Does that make sense to anyone? Isn't -34 really effing cold? Shouldn't we be warned about that?

I really wish they'd stop changing the timezone of the server on me. Or at least install a version of PHP that lets me write code that adapts to that.

At least, that's my excuse for the screwed up timestamps that you may have noticed.

If I've done my job right, though, you'll have noticed no ill effects.

And, of course, I've got to go out now. If you notice any such ill effects, let me know. I'll get to it when I can.