Geekier than Me

And yet, I still exclaimed "This is awesome!" as I read through the page.

Combining two hobbies of mine, Legos and computer science, this truly excellent nerd has built various logic gate models.

Inspiring.

(as /.ed)

DNA helix jewelry

One of my many science mailing lists (Molecular Visualization) had a series of posts early this week about a project for K-12 science classes using bead work to teach the structure of DNA.

The result is pretty darn nifty.

Detailed instructions are here

Sweet Zombie Jesus!

Via Yahoo News:

White House Defends Commandments Displays
Thu Dec 9, 9:18 AM ET

By GINA HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to allow Ten Commandments displays on government property, adding a federal view on a major church-state case that justices will deal with early next year.

The government has weighed in before in religion cases at the high court, including one earlier this year that challenged the words "under God" in the classroom recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.

The government supported a California school district in that case. Now, it is backing two Kentucky counties that had framed copies of the Ten Commandments in their courthouses.

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Stupid Newton and his dumb ol' calculus

This is the part of the blog where I whine about having to remember how to do integration by parts for my statistics class, and then realizing that I'll probably need yet more calculus for the class on computer programming algorithm theory that I'm taking next quarter.

Arrgh!