A US judge has thrown out a case against God, ruling that because the defendant has no address, legal papers cannot be served. Nebraska state senator Ernie Chambers sued God last year. He said God had threatened him and the people of Nebraska and had inflicted "widespread death, destruction and terrorisation of millions upon millions of the Earth's inhabitants". "Since God knows everything," he reasoned, "God has notice of this lawsuit."

With all the talk about the latest browser to hit the internets, and being a web developer who needs to keep up with related information, I'm maintaining a wiki page with Google Chrome features and issues. DocForge is a public wiki, so feel free to add info, or commentary on the talk page.

I also recently added OpenID to DocForge making it easier for those who prefer that login option.

First it was 10 mod points in February. Now I've got 15 mod points. So either someone thinks I'm an absolutely amazing moderator, or the rules are a changin'. I know this isn't terribly important, but I'm very curious what the new rules are.

At this rate I'll be getting 25 by Christmas and I won't have enough time in 3 days to moderate 25 comments!

I just got 10 mod points for the first time. I've been on /. for around 8 years and never heard of anyone getting 10. Is this a new feature or are they just letting me know what a great moderator I am?

It's a few weeks short of two years since we began Seen On Slash to collect the best Slashdot comments. Today we hit 2000 comments collected. Thanks for your great submissions! They keep me laughing every day.

Top 10 Slashdot users with the most comments Seen on Slashdot:
204 Anonymous Coward
21 Tackhead
10 eln
9 kfg
9 Rob T Firefly
8 gEvil (beta)
7 Kadin2048
7 LiquidCoooled
7 spun
7 User 956

Seen On Slash, collecting the best slashdot comments, has been moved to a new host and has an updated theme. It's now extremely fast and a few quirks have been fixed. We're also working a few more feature improvements. Hundreds of members have submitted more than 1200 of their favorite slashdot comments. Enjoy!

I put up a new poll at Seen On Slash: What's your favorite Slashdot meme? There are so many. I put up some of my favorites and I'm curious to see how popular each one is.

It's been almost exactly one year since we began Seen On Slash to collect the best Slashdot comments. Today we hit 1000 comments collected. Thanks for your great submissions and keep 'em comin'!

Top 5 Slashdot users with the most comments Seen on Slashdot:
99 Anonymous Coward
12 Tackhead
9 kfg
6 LiquidCoooled
6 Rob T Firefly

The US is building the biggest embassy on Earth on the banks of the Tigris. Locals in Iraq are enraged as running water is still a problem and the electricity can't stay on, yet the $592 million embassy is on schedule. No Iraqis have been hired to help build it. The new US embassy may be bigger than anything Saddam Hussein ever built.

This apparently isn't helping to "win over the hearts and minds" of Iraqis. With distaste they refer to the project as "George W.'s Palace". Apparenty embassadors who are slumming it in Hussein's palaces are eventually in for a real treat, such as what might be the biggest swimming pool in Iraq, a cinema, and restaurants from US food chains.

Simply infuriating. Cross-posted in an attempt to get the word out.

I've repurposed DocForge.com as a wiki for software developers. We're building the best source for reference material and tips. Anyone can contribute content. Hope you find it useful.

Our planet is able to sustain life because of this thingie called carbon dioxide, also known as CO2. Plants breathe it, and it's also responsible for the greenhouse effect: light from the sun is converted to heat and trapped by the CO2, so we have a warm and cozy climate. This also means the greenhouse effect is basically a good thing, just too much of it is kinda bad (for humans, plants like it). Now, the CO2 in the atmosphere is washed out by the rain and reacts with minerals in the ground to form carbonates (basically another type of mineral, i.e. a solid). This would mean that after while, there would be no CO2 left in the atmosphere. Enter volcanos and plate tectonics. The continents that make up the surface of our planet are in constant motion, and they can move under and over each other. When a continent slides below another one, it will melt. When the minerals melt through the heat that the core of our planet produces, the carbonates are broken up, and when a volcano erupts, a lot of CO2 is released back into the atmosphere. In fact, volcanic eruptions are the single biggest source of CO2, even with us already creating a lot of this stuff.

Without this cycle that is constantly melting the surface of our planet, our CO2 would soon be gone.

Mars has no volcanic activity. It was pretty active once, probably more than Earth, just look at Olympus Mons, but not anymore. Now, even if you manage to terraform Mars by releasing enough CO2 into its atmosphere, it will be converted to carbonates after a while, and your beautifully terraformed planet becomes a cold, barren rock again. It's impossible to constantly plough up Mars's surface manually. Sorry to burst your bubble here

We've got a new poll running at Seen on Slash: How many comments have you ever posted to Slashdot? I'm shocked that so far the majority responding says less than 20 comments. I'm very curious to see how many visitors are active veterans (assuming it takes years to post thousands).

If you like completely unscientific polls then you should visit Seen on Slash and vote on Slashdot's new theme. So far 68% says it's pretty good while only 18% say it's awsome. I'm very interested to see if this is the general consensus.

I don't know if anyone would come and read my /. journal, but if they do I want to point them to Seen on Slash - the best comments ever seen on Slashdot. It's a small part of the Slashdot subculture collecting great /. comments. It's a relatively new site with over 70 registered users. Come on over and enjoy!

I've finally set up my own blog over at www.hokstad.com. Haven't updated my Slashdot journal much, but I figured I'd experiment with Movable Type.