The Unit Of Awesome

We really need a unit of measurement for awesomeness.  I vote for using the Gaga.

Evolution

I wonder whether the people who oppose teaching evolution in schools and universities object to the part about natural selection, or the part about heritability?

Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, Vol II

Apparently yesterday was for show, he does intend to depopulate Benghazi.  I've never been happier to see Sarkozy's face on the front page of the newspaper.

Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi

The man talks big, but demonstrates a certain lack of intestinal fortitude.  Sure he'll bomb people and threaten house-to-house massacres on his opponents.  He would carry out the massacres, there's no doubt about that.  Now he gets told "no" by the UN, and this is what we get:

Apparently pulling back from the increasingly bellicose statements as recently as Thursday from Colonel Qaddafi and his son Seif al-Islam, Mr. Koussa — his hands shaking as he read a prepared statement at a press conference Friday afternoon — said that the Qaddafi government would comply with the United Nations resolution by halting combat operations.

Obviously he's hoping to negotiate some sort of split-state solution or amnesty for himself and his family.  Let's just put some of his previous "belicose" statements up for contrast:

“We will come house by house, room by room. It’s over. The issue has been decided,” Colonel Qaddafi said Thursday on a radio call-in show before the United Nations vote. To those who continued to resist, he vowed: “We will find you in your closets. We will have no mercy and no pity.”

There's no doubt that the road to some semblance of normal governance in Libya is long, but we should all take pleasure at this setback in the Qaddafi family quest to reduce Libya to their private estate.  It's a giant Qadaffi FAIL and it warms my heart.

Daiichi

We are certainly capable of building an earthquake-proof, tsunami-proof, bomb-proof nuclear power plant.  Much in the same way, we have the technological capacity to feed everyone in the world.  The fact is that we will not do these things and we will suffer the consequences.  Repeatedly.  We will suffer them until we decide that nuclear power is not worth the risk involved.  The human cost of the natural disaster in Japan is heartbreaking, but the developing nuclear disaster is a tragedy in the true sense.  It is a disaster caused by human nature.

I'm a backward GIT

I just noticed I've been using GIT all wrong.  I had started a project so it made sense to make a branch every time I had a functional stopping point.  Now there are some working versions, and I can actually keep one as the 'master' branch.  Now it makes sense to develop on a branch and then update the master whenever I have a tested, working version.

New Gentoo Install

Python 3 has arrived in ~amd64 (!)