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There is a reason why you listen to scientists when they suggest things.

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right; they’re the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny. [Carl Sagan, Cosmos television series]

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring — Carl Sagan

Vandy beat Florida today 83-70 and I was there. This is the 6th top 25 team Vandy has beat. We should be a solid top 25 team come Monday, not to mention a pretty much assured NCAA tournament bid. This years SEC tournament should be exciting.

We stopped the nations longest winning streak and broke the record for the most Vanderbilt wins under Coach Stallings. It was a pretty historic afternoon. It sure felt good to be a part of it.

Coach Stalling and Billy Donovan shaking hands at the bottom right.

How about them doors. Derrick Byars and Shan Foster both scored 24. I think at Derrick Byars deserves the SEC player of the year. He has played consistanly well all season.

VUcommodores writeup

More Pictures at my Flickr Site

Do you think you have Dysphoric Social Attention Consumption Deficit Anxiety Disorder (DSACDAD) if so you need to ask you doctor about Havidol.

From the website:

IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
Problems can be avoided if you take HAVIDOL only when you are able to immediately benefit from its effects. To fully benefit from HAVIDOL patients are encouraged to engage in activities requiring exceptional mental, motor, and consumptive coordination. HAVIDOL is not for you if you have abruptly stopped using alcohol or sedatives. Havidol should be taken indefinitely. Side effects may include mood changes, muscle strain, extraordinary thinking, dermal gloss, impulsivity induced consumption, excessive salivation, hair growth, markedly delayed sexual climax, inter-species communication, taste perversion, terminal smile, and oral inflammation. Very rarely users may experience a need to change physicians.
Talk to your doctor about HAVIDOL

If you haven’t guessed this isn’t real. It was created by artist Justine Cooper to show how Pharmaceutical companies push their drugs.

The parody is in response to the tactics used by the drug industry to sell their wares to the public. Consumer advertising for prescription medications, which are a staple of television advertising in the United States, was legalised in the country in 1997.

Cooper said she intended the exhibit to be subtle.

“The drug ads themselves are sometimes so comedic. I couldn’t be outrageously spoofy so I really wanted it to be a more subtle kind of parody that draws you in, makes you want this thing and then makes you wonder why you want it and maybe where you can get it,” she added.

Make sure you check out the website it is pretty funny, once you know it fake. Like the chemical name –avafynetyme HCL — or have a fine time HCL.

According to the yahoo article, people believed this was real. I guess there is a sucker born every minute. I wonder how many people bought Head ON?? Its made of wax and a chemical used for cleaning lab glassware.

From the Faith In America’s website.

Reason #245 why I have a problem with religious people.

 

Stripped from Current.tv

I still need to buy a mac.

My problem with this piece of shit holiday is that your expected to give the someone something and if you don’t she will give you shit about it and all her friends call you names. I think that giving things to people when it expected is shallow and meaningless. Not to mention that the prices are jacked up and you have to wait an ungodly amount of time waiting to eat dinner out.So I have a suggestion, why not take a calender of the year and throw a dart at it. Whatever day it hits make that your Valintines day. Buy her the flowers and take her out and all the crap.  I think that will mean more, especially since it a suprise.  Here are the VD card I will be sending out (meisch.org):

 

And a song to commemorate the day

I’m the Man who Murdered Love by XTC:

I’m the man who murdered love
Yeah, what do you think to that?
I’m the man who murdered love
Yeah, what do you think to that?He was begging on his bended knee
For me to put him from his misery
He hadn’t worked at all this century
Said I’d do a job for all humanityI’m the man who murdered love
Yeah, what do you think to that?
I’m the man who murdered love
Yeah, what do you think to that?I put a bullet in his sugar head
He thanked me kindly
then he layed down dead
Phoney roses blossomed where he bled
Then all the cheering angels shook my
hand and said

I’m the man who murdered love
Yeah, what do you think to that?
I’m the man who murdered love
Yeah, what do you think to that?

Oh it’s the middle of the song
I’m guilty, I’m guilty, I’m guilty
And then I turned and said

There’ll be no more pain
from broken hearts
And no more lovers to be torn apart
Before you throw me
in your dungeon dark
Your honour, they’ll be putting statues up
In every park

I’m the man who murdered love
Yeah, what do you think to that?
I’m the man who murdered love
Yeah, what do you think to that?

So dear public I’m here to confess
That I’m the one who freed us from this mess
Love won’t be calling at your adress
‘Cause what you never had you never miss,
I guess

I’m the man who murdered love
Yeah, what do you think to that?
I’m the man who murdered love
Yeah, what do you think to that?

If you never, ever use it
You know you’re gonna lose it
If you never, ever kiss it
How you ever gonna miss it?

 

 

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. — Last Sentence of Origin of Species — Charles Darwin

Today is Charles Darwin’s birthday and his Theory on Origin of Species is still holding strong. See:

This is a visualization of the Tree of Life found via Living the Scientific Life. Here is her explanation of what you are seeing:

• The bacteria (unicellular organisms that lack a nucleus) which are in focus in this picture and represented by orange nodes.
• The archaea are probably more closely related to the eukaryotes than they are to the bacteria even though they lack a cell nucleus and represent some of the most extreme forms of life on earth. They are represented by red nodes and near the top and in the background of the picture.
• The eukarya (all cellular organisms with a cell nucleus) are represented by yellow nodes and are located on the left hand side and in the background of the picture.

Awesome stuff. Go read some of Darwin’s writings, you may learn something. Or are you afraid?