“The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. If there’s any religion that would cope with scientific needs it will be Buddhism.”

• Albert Einstein, 1954,from Albert Einstein: The Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, Princeton University Press

This is the strangest but coolest animation I’ve ever seen: Right Brain v Left Brain.

AND I figured out the secret… there is no spoon.

Travel and Leisure magazine released poll results for America’s top 25 cities. Philadelphia apparently sucks, unless you are into the arts, monument-hopping, or getting mugged. Yeah!

If your MacBook won’t go to sleep when you close the lid, this seemed to work for me.

1. Trash /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.PowerManagement.plist (admin passwd required)
2. Trash ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systemuiserver.plist

Try a restart and see if that works. If it doesn’t then move on to resetting the PMU

I can attest to this after trying to recover a broken Vaio using the manually burnt restore CDs (all seven of them), and then seeing a new Thinkpad ship without any system CDs… This is just no way to handle customer service. Beyond Microsoft’s being so anal about password protecting their “Genuine Software”, thus preventing you from legally just borrowing the CD from someone else, PC makers make you jump through hoops even to obtain your own legal copy of Windows.

Prof. Michael Ghedotti has posted a page on the Jesuit stance on accepting/teaching evolutionary biology, in addition to very briefly summarizing the stances for a variety of the world’s faiths. Interesting skim…

Newsweek article on the debate over religion

The article is reasonable enough, although hardly does more than rehash the same debate, except in an appeasing, positive light.