Apple’s famous, minimalist mp3 player ads have proven so effective, one wonders how the music playing devices of yesteryear managed to get sold. If only Mozart had thought to use these ads — then he’d be TRULY important. (Illustrations by Breanna Goodrow.) On CollegeHumor
Last FM is tracking all the Michael Jackson tracks played yesterday. As the news broke out to the masses, Michael Jackson plays went from around 2000 to 35,000 in an hour. Ridiculous.
Text by Michael Shermer, editor of “Sceptic Magazine” and author of “Why Darwin Matters”:
“To convey the logical absurdity of trying to squeeze the round peg of science into the square hole of religion, I penned the following scientific revision of the Genesis creation story. It is not intended as a sacrilege of the poetic beauty of Genesis; rather, it is a mere extension of what the creationists have already done to Genesis in their insistence that it be read not as mythic saga but as sci?entific prose. If Genesis were written in the language of modern science, it would read something like this.”