Last week, Dr. Tommy Mitchell of our staff spoke to a large group at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville. This meeting came about due to the efforts of several student leaders on campus. Leading evolutionists Ken Miller and Eugenie Scott had spoken in the area in the last 2–3 weeks, a...

Gnomie Luke Scott writes: Hey Chris, I have been planning on getting a Mac Pro for a while, and since my last Mac purchase with the first-gen Intel MacBook, I’ve been keeping an eye on MacRumors’ “when to buy” page and other news to make sure that any future Apple purchases d...

Recently I asked you 3 simple questions about Slacker Manager. As promised, here are the unedited results, with a few conclusions I drew at the end of the survey. 1. Do you ever talk about Slacker Manager? 13 readers don’t talk about Slacker Manager, 15 readers don’t ever talk about Slac...

Gnomie Michael Schroeder writes: Hi, Chris. I just watched your Vista rant video. You are right on when you say Vista is not ready for prime time. Anybody who deals with more than a couple of computers already knows this. The problem is you are looking at Microsoft from the eyes and paradigm of a ge...

Click here to view the embedded video. I love this quirky little how-to clip, mostly because the audio doesn’t match up to the video, making poor Leila look like she needs her own mandated visit to the house of corrections. But I can relate to Leila and her message, and I’m willing to admit that...

I can understand the logic behind the number of forums we have, but I do question whether it actually benefits use users. The more forums you have, the more you dilute the visitors on specific forums (eg if someone asks a question in the solaris forums about Samba on Nexenta. Nexenta might be fine a...

Help me write my ebay feedback... I'm a bit daggy and like to write my ebay feedback in similies. For no particular reason... just 'cause I'm a dag*. I've done over eighty and now I've run out of ideas. Can the brilliance that is Ask MeFi help me please? Examples of my work so far: -at fast as a gre...

In 5 Ways to Deal with Slacker Co-Workers, I got some very interesting and insightful comments. I encourage you to read the post and look for ways to deal with those slackers you work with. But today, I got a new comment, with a question that I felt was worth answering, and seeing what all the smart...

Kate Harding dissects Germaine’s latest blithering (Germs doesn’t always blither, but I cannot think of a better description for this particular effort) in Salon. Great job. I was having the “why aren’t there more women working in stand-up?” conversation with a comedian...

(This is the second part of our series of reflections on Feministe and its place in the bewildering and sometimes nauseating constellation known as “the feminist blogosophere.” You can read part one here.) This time, your hostesses start to scratch the surface of meritocracy and the lack...