Even though it is a little on the bizarre side, you'll have to admit that it's an intriguing song title. Blasphemous enough to get my attention ... a rewarding click of the mouse.
You can hear the song sans video on the Pataphysics MySpace page. I would hazard a guess that we won't see any fundagelicals singing along with or dancing to this number any too soon. Thanks to Largeheartedboy for the link.
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Someone mentioned Fleet Foxes to me at the linuxcaffe a few weeks ago and I've just now got around to finding some of their stuff online. Their Sub Pop bio page describes their influences as drawing upon, to quote band member Robin:
the traditions of folk music, pop, choral music and gospel, baroque psychedelic, sacred harp singing, West Coast music, traditional music from Ireland to Japan, and film scores.
Fabulist! have an amazing claymation video that the band did of their song White Winter Hymnal.
Captain Obvious notes that a band member is formerly of Pedro the Lion and links to an amazing acoustic track called Tiger Mountain Peasant Song. I can't place it, but the introduction reminds me of something vaguely like Radiohead's Karma police combined with Great Lake Swimmers. Might just be the reverb on the voice and plain acoustic guitar, but it is a fabulous track! The harmonies on Quiet Houses do their Sub Pop bio description justice, have a listen to it too.
Without further ado, take a look at the video, and make sure there's a spot on the ipod or favoured portable audio device for a few of their songs:
Some words of wisdom from Pat Condell.
Oh how evangelical Christians love to try disproving evolution. Carrying on the work of his father, Eric Hovind, son of the imprisoned Kent Hovind (aka Dr. Dino) and two of his creationist pals explain why the cuttlefish could not have evolved. It's another example of the stock creationist "it's too amazing to have evolved so God did it" argument. It would appear that the young Mr. Hovind considers the word "wow" as scientific descriptive term.
PZ Myers at Pharyngula gives his opinion on the discussion: Three dopes sitting around a table.
From Nature's June 26 2008 issue (#453) comes more evidence from the Devonian period that fills in more of the gap in our understanding of the evolution from fish to land animals.
The gap in our understanding of the evolutionary transition from fish to tetrapod is beginning to close thanks to the discovery of new intermediate forms such as Tiktaalik roseae. Here we narrow it further by presenting the skull, exceptionally preserved braincase, shoulder girdle and partial pelvis of Ventastega curonica from the Late Devonian of Latvia, a transitional intermediate form between the 'elpistostegids' Panderichthys and Tiktaalik and the Devonian tetrapods (limbed vertebrates) Acanthostega and Ichthyostega. Ventastega is the most primitive Devonian tetrapod represented by extensive remains, and casts light on a part of the phylogeny otherwise only represented by fragmentary taxa: it illuminates the origin of principal tetrapod structures and the extent of morphological diversity among the transitional forms.
The Associated Press have a story on it, but I don't much want to support them with a link or text considering the job they did on the drudge report.
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Here's the trailer for Bill Maher's movie Religulous which will be released this coming October. Don't want to miss this one.
Mr. Maher discusses the movie with Larry King.
Well the weekend is over and DrupalCamp Toronto 2008 has come and gone. Thanks to the amazing group of volunteers and presenters, we managed to feed, clothe, and entertain approximately 150 geeks for two whole days with 26 different sessions ranging from theming and jQuery, to implementing Drupy, that is Drupal in Python. Thanks to the fine folks at The Faculty of Information Studies who helped me run around booking rooms, projectors, arranging furniture and access the the building over the weekend.
And more importantly, thanks to the folks who presented sessions and all those who attended! Without interesting material and interested attendees, the weekend would have been a write off. I'm already looking forward to DrupalCamp Toronto 2009, we'll have to start planning early in the spring to outdo this year's effort.
