What is this, then? A reproduction of a childhood fantasy in which dinosaurs are friends of inquisitive youngsters? The kind of fantasy that doesn’t care that human beings and these prefossilized thunder-lizards are usually thought to have been separated by millions of years? No, this really is meant to be more like one of those literal dioramas of the traditional natural history museum, an imagining of a real habitat, with plant life and landscape reproduced in meticulous detail.

For here at the $27 million Creation Museum, which opens on May 28 (just a short drive from the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport), this pastoral scene is a glimpse of the world just after the expulsion from the Garden of Eden, in which dinosaurs are still apparently as herbivorous as humans, and all are enjoying a little calm in the days after the fall.

Creation Museum - Religion - New York Times

Decius wrote:
HD-DVD or BlueRay?

I'll probably buy a bluray player in the form of a ps3 this summer. I'll consider buying a standalone dual-format player when they become available (winter?). My prediction is that dual-format players will end the format war; consumers don't want to bet on one or the other.

Hopefully, this will be the last generation of fixed-format stuff that has to be set in stone for 20 years and there will be enough network in a few more years that we can just ship the stuff around that way instead of on silly plastic discs.

RE: Survey Question

That money's not going into my pocket, I can promise you that. It's just these guys who have f---ed themselves out of a job essentially, that now take it out on ripping off the public. I've got a battle where I'm trying to put out quality material that matters and I've got fans that feel it's their right to steal it and I've got a company that's so bureaucratic and clumsy and ignorant and behind the times they don't know what to do, so they rip the people off.

Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails | Herald Sun

Designed to provide communications in otherwise inhospitable environments, the six or eight-foot sphere contains a plastic satellite dish that unfolds when the ball is inflated and can be targeted to within one-tenth of a degree.

Cute.

GATR-com inflatable satellite ball goes where other satellite dishes can't - Engadget

Physicists are now foretelling the death of cosmology, or the study of our universe, as we know it. Thankfully, cosmologists won't be jobless for a couple trillion years.

SPACE.com -- Physicists Predict the Death of Cosmology

Boeing has started final assembly of its first 787 Dreamliner jet.

The plane is coming to life at Boeing's main US production facility near Seattle, Washington from parts first made as far away as Italy and Japan.

BBC NEWS | Business | Boeing assembles first 787 plane

A levy originally intended to ensure that the richest investors cannot live tax-free is taking back a much larger portion of the Bush tax cuts going to those who make less than $100,000 than to those who earn more than $1 million, according to a new analysis by the Joint Committee on Taxation.

Fix AMT!

Group Offers a Simple Fix for Alternative Minimum Tax - New York Times

Google on Monday urged the Federal Communications Commission to think outside the box in designing the rules for its upcoming auction of radio spectrum.

San Jose Mercury News - Google submits spectrum auction plan to FCC

This is pretty neat. A site where you post just small entries. They mapped it onto Google Earth, so you can see almost realtime all the people posting and where they are posting from...its fun to watch.

Sweet; I've been on twitter for a few weeks but hadn't heard of this. my twitter profile

twittervision

So I’ve gotten (literally) scores of emails about this piece by Mark Helprin promoting perpetual copyright terms. “Write a reply!” is the demand. But why don’t you write the reply instead. Here’s a page on wiki.lessig.org. Please write an argument that puts this argument in its proper place.

Lessig Blog: Helprin on perpetual copyright: write the reply?