I'm a Christian but not a creationist. I have a degree in physics and a degree in theology. And I thank God for Stephen Hawking and the insight that his incredible mind has given us into the universe, despite his defiance of God. I read his book "A Brief History of Time" and it blew my mind, it was one of the factors that led me to study physics. I used his latest book, "The Grand Design" in my honours thesis for my theology degree which was an investigation into the appearance of fine-tuning in the universe.

Not looking for an argument, just want to point out that not all Christians have the anti-science attitudes that seem so prevalent in American evangelicanlism.

My wife just got one - loves it. It's her first smartphone - upgraded from a Nokia candybar. She finds it reasonably intuitive and there are no major frustrations. The only minor frustration so far is that there is no indicator LED or equivalent so she can't just glance at it to see if there's a missed call or message.

It's called shifting the Overton Window

No, but if the night after she promises to give you steak and lobster but instead serves you a turd sandwich, and the threesome is you and two big burly guys (and you're not into that) then you will complain.

Until we raise the sea level through global warming...

In his world, there's no such thing as a sunrise, only a rotating earth.

It's probably the extra 40% that Steam makes us pay taking a long time to get over there :(

ITYM "Bite my fhiny metal aff"

Google has deep pockets and lots of lawyers to defend themselves against Oracle. And even if Google loses this lawsuit, they're able to find the $100 million or so that they need to pay Oracle down the back of the couch.

Mono doesn't have deep pockets and lots of lawyers. A patent lawsuit from Microsoft against Mono would be devastating, win or lose.

FORMER Australian, thank you. We're glad to be rid of him. You wanted him (and gave him citizenship), you've got him.

Stupid Lameness Filter Filler

So what?

Also available in audio

See "Lindows"

And of course number theory may have seemed useless at the time, but it turns out that useless things like factorising huge numbers into prime factors has practical applications for cryptography.