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I owe so many people email (and similar) responses. I've picked out nine people to respond to today. Every time I successfully do so, I'm going to make one bric a brac posting. You just watch me.

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Study: 38 Percent Of People Not Actually Entitled To Their Opinion

The Battle for Secretary of Geek Affairs

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Doctor Who - Battlestar Galactica opening

(And from the same genius, Darker, a Doctor/Master vid.)

Some great Who chibis! (Lots more goodies at nuriwan's DA page.)

MOAR chibis, this time from kazzisato.

Lee Sullivan's invaluable guide to the Doctor's heights.

Some very silly icons by spoofmaster.

Doctor Who: Revolutionary Or Tool Of The Man?

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After eight long, tiresome years, President Al Gore won't be missed. Even if he did save the planet

"Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard."

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When Is A Celt Not A Celt? An Irreverent peek into Neopagan views of history.

Zen Judaism



I love these Ancient Egyptian comics. Check out who's serving the noble mouse's food.

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Dance offs:

Pocoyo. Do not miss Elly's arrival on the dancefloor, around the 5 minute 30 second mark.

Black Books

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Whales Had Legs Until 40 Million Years Ago, Fossils Show

Flinders Ranges may contain earliest multicellular fossils. (Here's an eight-armed example.)

Monitoring of creation studies left to schools: "Christian schools in NSW are teaching creationism or "intelligent design" with little or no monitoring of whether it is being improperly included in science classes in high schools."

World's First "Walking Fish" Also Had the World's First Neck

Octopuses watch TV

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(spastasmagoria found that. :)

Sodomy Laws Are Rooted in British Colonialism. "In many countries, conservatives claim homosexuality came from the colonizing West. In fact, it's homophobia that's a legacy of Western colonialism."

Two responses to Prop 8. From November, The Advocate questions whether Gay Is The New Black? And from September, the Taking Steps blog: It is time for us to acknowledge that our love is an act of war.

And for light relief: Mot Naturens Orden?, a 2006 Norwegian exhibition on homosexuality in nature, which has been documented in over 1500 animal species. I poked around in the site with the help of Google's automatic translation: the most interesting point was that animals have far more sex than they need to reproduce anyway, so a preference for same-sex partners is not necessarily going to be an evolutionary disadvantage. "Many species have sex outside of mating season and enjoy the sex that does not cause the normal mating, but rather gender rub their bodies against each other or stimulate themselves or partner in other ways," explains Google helpfully, although it baulked at translating seksualdrift.

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NYT: Israeli Cabinet Appears Ready to Declare a Gaza Cease-Fire

I lost count

A song. It's a pretty rough WAV. You may need the lyrics.