There’s some awesome smack talking going on over at the F1 Overnight Website Challenge Team Page. The Internet All Stars and Mighty Polymorphin’ Power Rangers have got the most entertaining stuff at this point..

Of course, it’s somehow hard to come off as bad-ass when your smack talking has an RSS feed…

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Mystery image of ‘life on Mars’, and a zoomed-in version. Seriously, check it out: it looks disturbingly like the classic bigfoot shot.

Came to my attention over on “The Loophole”, the blog for “In the Loop”.

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So I ran across this blog entry on the (possible) effect IQ differentials had on the course of history.

The only quibble I have with the entire idea (and remember that I’m a self proclaimed liberal, both philosophically and politically) is that I don’t think average intelligence differs all that much from one population to another, at least not signifigantly and not within recorded history. What does (or at least might) change is three things: one, the distribution of exceptionally intelligent people- that one population might have more geniuses than another, two, what problems those geniuses are encouraged to work on, and three, how accepting the population as a whole is to new ideas. And I think two and three are much bigger factors than one is.

What is also interesting, I think, is using these theories as predictive power- what does this portend for the future.

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So, I wasn’t very good at responding to all the comments on my original post, so I’m going to exercise my editorial fiat and just respond to them all at once, and call it a new blog post. Ain’t I clever?

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Alicia has found some great space for Graphic Karma Web Design and Perfectly Earthly to be based out of — it’s above New Beginnings Spa right near Macalester College¹ on Grand Ave in Saint Paul.

There’s a couple of things that still need to get sorted out, but assuming that it works out (and I foresee no reason why it wouldn’t), the two of us will probably be moving out of Woodbury soon and into the Mac/Groveland, Highland, or Cathedral Hill area. That’ll make life a lot nicer for my commute to basically anywhere that’s not Hudson, particularly if the Central Corridor Light Rail Project finally gets off its butt and gets implemented.

¹ I have a love-hate relationship with Macalester. On the one hand, as a PC(USA) college, I’m proud of its achievements and its success. On the other hand, as a Hamline graduate, I realize that Macalester is den of pot-smoking hippie literati-wannabes with no grasp of the real world. It’s a tough line to walk, I’ll tell you…

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