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  • Bone Machine

    Posted on February 2, 2007 1:43 pm by Ian Pattinson

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6320781.stm
    Molecular engines that could power nanomachines have been built at Edinburgh University.

    http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/nico_pitney/2007/02/science_moves_forward_bush_mov.html
    It must be repeated continually until people pay attention- Bush’s half-arsed nod to Climate Change is not as big a step as he pretends and his plans are still useless.

    http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2004693,00.html
    Children are to be taught about climate change in geography.  Soon 13 year olds will understand the problem better than the "leader" of the free world.

    http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2003520,00.html
    Penguin is to produce a "wiki-novel".  Spinneyhead has a wiki lying around somewhere, I just haven’t got round to doing anything with it yet.

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  • March of the Creationist Monkeys

    Posted on September 18, 2005 12:19 pm by Ian Pattinson

    Some people are too sad. The Creationists/ Intelligent Design monkeys have decided that nature documentary March of the Penguins is evidence of God’s hand.

    Andrew Coffin, writing in the Christian publication World Magazine, said such miracles of nature were evidence that life is too complex to have arisen through Darwinian random selection: ‘That any one of these eggs survives is a remarkable feat – and, some might suppose, a strong case for intelligent design. It’s sad that acknowledgment of a creator is absent in the examination of such strange and wonderful animals. But it’s also a gap easily filled by family discussion after the film.’
    ……
    Steve Jones, professor of genetics at University College London and an atheist, said: ‘I find it sad that people with intrinsically foolish viewpoints don’t recognise this as a naturally beautiful film, but have to attach their absurd social agendas to it.

    ‘The problem with intelligent design is that there is no conceivable observation in nature that can disprove the idea. It’s not part of science, which is why scientists are not interested in it. A group of penguins standing upright looks like co-operation, but in fact the ones on the outside are struggling to get in and those on the inside are trying to stand their ground: it’s a classic Darwinian struggle. The idea that the life of a penguin is any more beautiful than that of a malaria virus is absurd.

    ‘Supporters of intelligent design think that if they see something they don’t understand, it must be God; they fail to recognise that they themselves are part of evolution. It appeals to ignorance, which is why there is a lot of it in American politics at the moment.’

    Technorati tag: PenguinsCreationism, Intelligent Design

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  • One by one, the penguins are stealing my sanity

    Posted on July 28, 2005 4:49 pm by Ian Pattinson

    For Daz. Poke the penguin. It’s a very patient penguin, calm, almost zen-like.

    via Ministry of Information

    Technorati tag: Penguin, Flash

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  • Mobile Penguin

    Posted on October 18, 2004 10:55 am by Ian Pattinson

    If MontaVista Software gets its way, we could be seeing Linux in mobile phones, competing with Symbian and Windows Mobile for “mid-range featurephones”.

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  • Yet More Yeti

    Posted on April 30, 2004 7:36 am by Ian Pattinson

    The Yeti, the Penguin and now the Albatross (with an added measure of kangaroos for scoring.)

    via Pinksocks

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  • Casual Wear

    Posted on April 2, 2004 10:35 am by Ian Pattinson


    Penguin at C&A

    The day after April Fools I’m a little dubious about stories like this, but anyway- a 91 year old granny knits wooly jumpers for penguins. Please let this be true.

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  • Cub Shoot

    Posted on March 24, 2004 7:04 pm by Ian Pattinson

    Sick of bashing all those poor penguins around? Well, try the Happy Tree Friends’ Cub Shoot game. My best distance so far is 792.1 feet.

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  • Every great story has a Penguin in it

    Posted on March 18, 2004 11:18 pm by Ian Pattinson

    We were discussing this earlier. Who can possibly forget Mr. Darcy’s penguin, which accompanied him everywhere? Or that heart rending warming moment in Romeo and Juliet where the penguin gives young Romeo a helpful boost on the way up to Julie’s balcony? (It is a measure of the Bard’s genius that he could slip this in so effortlessly but at such a key moment in the story.)

    Matrix 1 “What do you need?” “Penguins. Lots of penguins.” Excellent movie.

    Matrix 2 & 3, no penguins- major disappointment.

    Throw the penguin up the crevasse, bouncing it off the walls. Get as high as possible.

    via Look At This

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  • Save the Penguin

    Posted on March 17, 2004 11:27 pm by Ian Pattinson

    Whack the Penguin takes on a whole new, gory, dimension.

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  • Awk!

    Posted on February 22, 2004 3:45 pm by Ian Pattinson

    Gay Penguin for President.

    via Groc

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  • Yetis have all the fun

    Posted on February 13, 2004 2:58 pm by Ian Pattinson

    More penguin bashing. This one’s a little more complicated. I’d recommend holding back your throw for longer than seems right.

    via Carlton Hibbert

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  • The only gay Eskimo?

    Posted on February 11, 2004 11:43 pm by Ian Pattinson

    Gay penguins. Of course in their dinner jackets they all look like butch lesbians.

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  • Penguin Bashing

    Posted on January 27, 2004 4:55 pm by Damian

    Hours (well minutes anyway) of fun.

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  • Punting Penguins in the Park

    Posted on January 21, 2004 4:42 pm by Ian Pattinson

    Penguin baseball. You may need to refresh to get it to load properly.

    From Tim, whose record of 323.5 is at least 12 ahead of me.

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  • Under the Covers

    Posted on October 18, 2003 6:33 pm by Ian Pattinson

    The Guardian and Penguin are running a competition to get your photo used as the cover of a Modern Classic. They also have a potted history of book cover illustrations.

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  • Penguin Power

    Posted on May 11, 2003 1:58 pm by Damian

    If you are a fan of Linux and its mascot, Tux, you might like these pictures.

    Found while trying to remember the link for ntlhellworld which is actually here.

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  • Penguins

    Posted on March 29, 2003 4:15 pm by Ian Pattinson

    Funny little animated gif, just off the bottom of the page on my monitor.

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  • Desktop Penguin

    Posted on January 30, 2003 12:01 pm by Ian Pattinson

    The first and, sadly, only time I used Linux was in 1996 when I was on a C++ course that was actually all about earning cash for the training providers. I’ve often wished since then that I had learnt more about it. I’m not brave enough to install it on my main machine, for fear of screwing up a double boot setup and the lack of desktop programs. The second problem, at least, is diminishing. As for the first, one of my aims for this year is to pick up a cheap old laptop and install the bare bones needed for writing- Linux and OpenOffice- so that I can sling it in a backpack and go write in Castlefield or out at the end of a summer ride.

    Of course, what I really want to do is build a Beowulf cluster. Back at The Gas, after refurbishing the Manchester office, there was a room full of surplus equipment. It was like the King Solomon’s Mine of base units. If they’d only let me borrow a dozen or so…..

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