but, officer, he appeared to be entirely reasonable!

Rowan Williams, who in the past impressed me somewhat with his rationality and uncommon—for a clergyman—level-headedness, is rapidly losing points. Among other things, he claims that science cannot settle the abortion question, that evolutionary theory is "a limited theory about certain limited phenomena" (life in the Universe? Algorithmically driven change in self-replicating systems? Hmm...does not seem so limited to me); however, my favourite one is his elitist insinuations: society can't handle science, indeed. Failing...

last Week's eye candy

This week we've had a chance to see some awesome visuary: first, the Rosetta flyby of Mars which produced some absolutely gorgeous images, like this one; then new shots from Cassini, which is orbiting Saturn at high inclination and is able to take pictures of its poles from the perspectives inaccessible from Earth, such as this gorgeous shot, or this one; and also New Horizons Jupiter flyby: that bloody thing is damn fast: at Jupiter already, and launched only a little over a year ago! Bloody eye candy! Feast your eyes before someone else feasts on them, I say.

On the more troubling front, the question of the week seems to be, Are Christians Unamerican? ;)
No need to add anything to aforelinked analysis; pretty scary.

Speaking of eye candy, my 'hawk has gotten very long and very thin after being whittled away for the last 2.5 years, and I finally decided to take it off this Sunday. Hair-off day! I shall drink and run around my house with clippers, making some kind of a fucked-up ritual of it.