I am hoping to move this weblog from cogeco to philipdowney.com today. There might be problems. Hopefully, the new link to the weblog will be working soon. I am hoping all the swoon posts will be left behind on cogeco, and this will serve as a redirect.

The New York Times recently changed its totally free website. It now has a few sections where you must pay to read it, mostly of their op-ed columnists. Of course, it's very hard to get people to pay for what is formerly free, without offering actual improvements. (Sirius and XM Radio both offered improvements -- no commericals over regular radio -- and that is a good example of an improvement.) I

I saw Serenity earlier this week. It was good. This will be a short review, because I don't want to spoil things. I haven't seen every episode of Firefly, but I knew the characters and the series' outline, and knew who was who. Even so, I don't think you need to be familiar with the show to figure out the movie. The movie was quite a bit bleaker than the tv show. Yes, there were a few jokes there

I only got 260, which is pretty poor. See if you can do better at determining who is homeless and who is Jesus.

Watching Arrested Development last night, I thought it was 1983, with Dave Thomas, (same hometown as me) best known as Doug McKenzie, Scott Baio, best known as Chachi, and Bob Einstein, best known as Super Dave Osborne. But it was nice to see them all, Bob Einstein had the best role. Throw in Charlize Theron as Rita, and you have the best (American) (comedy) show on tv.

Here's a great post from Jochen Weller on Einstein's discovery of general relativity, and how it has helped understand our universe. It's the universe in a nutshell, covering space time, dark matter, dark energy and extra dimensions.

Casino Versus Japan - It's Very Sunny (Wobblyhead) Plaid - Diddymousedid (Warp) Mike and Rich - Mr. Frosty (Rephlex) Static - Spawn (City Centre Offices) Crouched Head - Scratch for Papa Deadly Wiz Da Disko - Game (!K7) Maldoror's Gambit Remix (Thirsty Ear) Autechre - Montreal (Warp) Shout Out Out Out Out - Nobody Calls Me Unless They Want Something (Normals Welcome) Black Dog - Further Harm

Well, the title of the blog is 90 Percent True, so take it with a grain of salt. In any case, this is the funniest post I have read in a long time. At least until the terrorist bit.

Sounds like I missed quite a party at my 10-year anniversary for Queen's. Flipped cars, brawls with police, assorted mayhem. Should have been there! For an alternative view, try Golden Words, and here. (I used to write for them.)

There's going to be a billion posts on intelligent design in the next few weeks, as the Dover trial progresses. This post gives the best summary I've heard of intelligent design.