Arafat and his henchmen are stashing millions off shore, probably in anticipation of the upcoming collapse of their little thugocracy/kleptocracy. Looks like they’re expecting a little chaos.

That’ll buy a lot of baby wipes.

There seems to be a conspiracy to keep me from posting. My DSL connection has died again, and now the modem in my firewall machine that I was using for backup seems to have gone to that Happy Hardware Hunting Ground as well.

I’m reduced to posting from my laptop, which I hate, because I dislike the keyboard intensely. Does anyone know if there’s any way to disable the touchpad, other than taping a piece of paper over it?

How can it be that guns, drugs and prostitution are responsible for all these murders in the nation’s capital? I thought that those things were all illegal there…

At least German women.

It seems to be opposite for men. I guess the women athletes will have to find non-athletic partners. Or other women, which would fit the stereotype, anyway…

Actually, I’d take it with a grain of salt. It offers zero data for either proposition–it’s just a trainer’s opinion.

Apparently unchastened by the last skirmish on the subject, and inspired by the latest hominid discovery in Chad, Susanna Cornett has reopened the ID versus evolution debate.

I don’t have time or inclination to weigh in this time, but fortunately, Razib K. and Charles Murtaugh have done so, probably better than I could hope to.

To me, though the money quote is the last one in Charles’ piece, that should give proponents of ID pause:

“bad arguments for God?s existence do more harm than good, since they give unbelievers an occasion to laugh.”

This may be the ultimate solution to spam.

And you thought that bloggers were wastrels of time.

For you robosexuals out there, check out these pictures of a Lego woman in provocative poses.

[via Paul Hsieh]

Alan Boyle, over at MSNBC, says that Lance Bass’ incredible adventure is back on track.

John Dingell’s primary victory in Michigan may have been the final blow for gun-control groups.

Some computer scientists in India have come up with a new and elegant method of determining if a number is prime. It’s deterministic, rather than the probabilistic methods presently used.

It probably won’t replace current methods in cryptography, though–it’s actually slower than standard numerical techniques.