RTFA: http://www.darwinday.org/index.html

Darwin Day is a global celebration of science and reason held on or around Feb. 12, the birthday anniversary of evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin. This year marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth.

Rock on with the ultimate bad Oscar, otherwise known as Charles Darwin, on his 200th birthday, February 12th, 2009. Apparently, the Great Wise Dude turns 200 this year, and I couldn’t wait for his birthday to post it. The darwinday.org site is mostly a place to find Darwin Day celebrations near you or tools to help you plan a party yourself. But, also check out www.darwinday.org/learn/ to learn about Darwin’s life and works.

Happy (early) Birthday, Darwin! Thanks to you, I know I am a monkey! (Or, great ape, to be exact)

PS I was turned on to Chuckie’s birthday by reading a new blog favorite: Globe Campus’ Nerd Girl. If you like your academia-focused humor, this chick’ll crack you up. Ha!

PPS The image is an rtfa original, remixed in the style of Lawrence Lessig in honor of our favorite Chuck. Thanks to farkinga for suggesting the base images!

PPPS Original Darwin cartoon image from here.

RTFA: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-googl…

Google changed its favicon last year and many people said that the new one was ugly. Probably this the reason why Google decided to use another favicon starting from today. The new favicon uses all the colors from Google’s logo, while keeping the same lowercase “g”.

Marissa Mayer’s description from last year is very appropriate. “We wanted something distinctive and noticeable (…). We wanted something that embraced the colorfulness of the logo, yet wouldn’t date itself.” Adam Howard, a reader of this blog, thinks that the new favicon “looks like a mini paint-by-numbers”.

Here is the new, new Google favicon (or favicon.ico) It certainly is more colorful, but I’m not sure how it will stand up against the rest of the tabs in my browser… and I have tons of tabs open at any given time.

To get some sense of how this happened, I’ve included some of the permutations Google worked through when creating their previous favicon in May 2008:

RTFA: http://www.sexinchrist.com/threesome.html

The Old Testament is full of references to Biblical men, such as Solomon, David, and others, who had not only multiple wives, but also harems of concubines at their disposal. Today the practice of polygyny (one man having multiple wives) is illegal in most places. Although we can acknowledge polygyny in principal, we must recognize and honor the primacy and priority of the marriage bond between one husband and one wife. Whenever a third party is introduced into this equation, it must only be to support and strengthen the existing marriage bond between those two individuals. So, if bringing in another woman would in any way undermine the relationship between husband and wife, it should not be pursued.

Playing by God’s Rules

If, on the other hand, a married couple feels their relationship would benefit from them establishing a loving involvement another woman, out of respect for the couple’s marriage, and out of respect for any marital attachments of the other woman, they must abide by certain limits and conditions:

(1) To avoid the impropriety of male homosexuality, a heterosexual couple should not under any circumstances form a threesome with another man.
(2) Both women involved in the threesome must be willing to keep within traditional female roles (i.e., not taking on masculine appearance or behavior in or out of the bedroom) and recognize the male as the leader in the relationship.
(3) If the wife’s lesbian sex partner is unmarried, it may be permissible for the husband to have relations with her only with his wife’s consent.
(4) If the wife’s lesbian sex partner is unmarried, but the wife does not wish her to have relations with the other woman, the husband should respect this.
(5) If the wife’s lesbian sex partner is married, her husband must not have objections to the relationship.
(6) If the wife’s lesbian sex partner is married, the husband should refrain from having any sexual relations with her, and should make every effort to control his fantasies about her. He should concentrate his attention on his own wife.

…guidance from the Internets.