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Merry Crispness - or Christmas, Hannukah, Winter Solstice, or whatever you may or may not be celebrating. On December 25th we celebrate Newton’s Birthday because Newton actually was born on December 25th. We call the holiday Crispness because it’s about keeping your mind crisp. And it’s not a coincidence that it’s the same day as Christmas and the Yule holiday where Christmas came from. It is the day that we celebrate the Tree of Knowledge, which represents the sum total of all human understanding....

Here is a great article from the July 2002 edition of Scientific American: 15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense. The article contains 15 great answers to typical points that creationists use to attack the theory of evolution. There are also some good links to additional resources at the end, such as Skeptic Magazine. I might have to actually get a subscription of this, as it seems pretty interesting. The Skeptic Library also contains a lot of great content, such as essays debunking ID and similar topics....

Apparently a woman was forced to leave a Southwest Airlines plane for wearing an offensive T-Shirt. The shirt bore pictures of Bush, Cheney, and Rice, along with the caption “Meet the Fuckers”, a play on the recent movie title “Meet the Fockers”. I actually saw the exact same shirt at a store in San Francisco last weekend, and while I didn’t buy it, I thought it was pretty funny… (via BoingBoing)

Windows is everywhere… Originally uploaded by DigitalHobbit.