Coming Soon! Just got my advance copy of Cory Doctorow’s new book, Little Brother. If you want some advance buzz on the book, start here. Tor Senior Editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden was kind enough to send me an advance copy–even though (as usual) I was late to the sign-up. This one’s cutting to the front… Continue reading

The only humble contribution I can make to earth day is to note that a Hibiscus we were given a year ago not only survived the winter, but is blooming again. (Of course, we had some help.)

Absolutely Priceless…

The Times pretty much nails it: Prominent evolutionary biologists, like the author and Oxford professor Richard Dawkins — accurately identified on screen as an “atheist” — are provided solely to construct, in cleverly edited slices, an inevitable connection between Darwinism and godlessness. Blithely ignoring the vital distinction between social and scientific Darwinism, the film links… Continue reading

More deep thoughts from Richard Dawkins: Entities capable of designing anything, whether they be human engineers or interstellar aliens, must be complex — and therefore, statistically improbable. Actually, these are the same ‘deep’ thoughts we’ve heard before. Bill Vallicella was on the case, but is worth revisiting. 1. The explanandum, that which is to be… Continue reading