Gunning for Netflix. But will the online DVD rental company sell out?

Clifford Van Meter asks: What’s wrong with this picture? Why is it whenever a new Microsoft patch comes out that fixes 77 security flaws in their crappy OS it gets reported as “Microsoft Improves Security in XP”, but anything that Apple fixes gets, “QuickTime suffers four critical holes”. TechWorld has used exactly that headline in… Continue reading

Barbara Forrest catches the Creationist Intelligent Design crowd redhanded. (Hat tip to Nick Matzke).

It looks like the Vatican has decided to set the record straight: “The fundamentalists want to give a scientific meaning to words that had no scientific aim,” he said at a Vatican press conference. He said the real message in Genesis was that “the universe didn’t make itself and had a creator”. This idea was… Continue reading

John Allen at the National Catholic Reporter has some “interesting” comments from the new Nuncio to the Persian Gulf: The Holy See’s new nuncio to Kuwait and several other Gulf States, Archbishop Paul-Mounged El-Hachem, a Lebanese Maronite Christian, recently gave an interview to Monday Morning, a Beirut-based newspaper. El-Hachem’s comments illustrate the views of one… Continue reading