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From the Christian Science fair winners:

1st Place: “Life Doesn’t Come From Non-Life”

Patricia Lewis (grade did an experiment to see if life can evolve from non-life. Patricia placed all the non-living ingredients of life - carbon (a charcoal briquet), purified water, and assorted minerals (a multi-vitamin) - into a sealed glass jar. The jar was left undisturbed, being exposed only to sunlight, for three weeks. (Patricia also prayed to God not to do anything miraculous during the course of the experiment, so as not to disqualify the findings.) No life evolved. This shows that life cannot come from non-life through natural processes.

Slashdot says that all unregistered domain names now resolve to Verisign. Just wait for your router’s cache to expire, or run

prompt% host alfkjascvqwefoqiwuer.com

They’re also running a mail server. Now jobo@saoasifjasofij.com is bounced and Verisign gets a copy of the message in their log.

Many blogs today are talking about how you can understand a word if you mix up the middle of a word while keeping the first and last letter. For example, “I lvoe to pvrneet you form rdnieag mt text.” Crooked Timber has a more thoughtful analysis, illustrating that you need context and “cue” words of three to four letters–words you can decipher easily to figure out what’s going on.

Hey, Rob!

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