Some cool things

Here are a few cool things I have found during my wanderings over the net lately:

A draft to a paper to be published in Scientific American about the limit of quantum computing.

A blog about cool stuff found on the preprint site for papers on physics stuff.

A blog post about why linux doesn't cut it in the mainstream and an experiment the author is conducting to try to prove his hypothesis (won't be a conclusive experiment, but could give reason to further experiments in sociology :-) )

Solar evidence points to human causes of climate change, take that climate warming by human intervention sceptics! :-)

The most powerful laser ever built.

That all for now.

Interpol is looking for a pedophile

Interpol is searching for this man who is seen abusing young boys on videos. See if you have seen him around your community and contact Interpol if you have, contact information is in the web page about that "man".

Panorama and The Church of Scientology

Well, it seems the Church of Scientology is at it again. I ain't no big fan of them, in fact quite despise them but still in order of religious tolerance then I tolerate them. But I do like their antics from time to time, like the ruckus about John Sweeney's momentary laps of reason.

The whole shabang started by The Church of Scientology posting a clip of the incident on youtube where you can see that the two men are in a sort of a shouting contest and Sweeney taking it way to far but still gathering his composure in between to ask if Tom Davis understood him. It is not clear from the clip what interview Sweeney is talking about but reading the transcript from the Panoroma show (viewable here) shows that Sweeney did an interview with a man named Shawn Lonsdale and Tom Davis came in while Sweeney was doing the interview and discredited Lonsdale and not allowing the interview to continue by interrupting it the whole time, Davis accuses Sweeney of being partial against The Church of Scientology but Sweeney insist on that Davis does not know what he is talking about since he did not see the beginning of the interview and the shouting contest begins.

There are other griefs Davis has with Sweeney, the first youtube post is only 1 of 2 they have on him, the other is when John Travolta comes to some cinema to do a promotion for his newest film and we see Sweeney in the crowd shouting out "questions" to him, watch here. Now this does not give a good view of Sweeney who I think is a good reporter in general and so does the BBC by the look of it, see the take on it from the BBC themselves here.

But judge for yourselves, watch the Panorama flick, read up on The Church of Scientology, have a look at what people are saying who are not stars and have wandered away from the congregation.

I for one think that a reporter looses composure and is followed through the taking of his documentary is not a good start for a documentary, but there are other things in there that are worth while. The following and all the interaction between Sweeney and Davis goes to show a pattern surely but is it really fair to judge the whole of Scientology from how Davis is? Its the same as judging the whole of BBC by the way Sweeney is.

Conservapedia

People just never stop to amaze me! Seems that some religious fanatics (is that to strong of a wording? :-) ) were not satisfied how the rest of the world viewed the universe and made the text in the online encyclopedia wikipedia so they started their own "encyclopedia" called conservapedia. I especially like the comparison last in that article. I think I will stick to wikipedia even though it should be taken with a grain of salt just like most you read on the internet (or read in general, doesn't just apply to the internet). Hmmm, maybe this story is just bogus since it is published on the internet!

Nope this site really does exist here.

Ooops, sorry

Now, this is just funny!