From Slashdot (http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=1728): “The Kansas State Board of Education voted 6-4 to allow science students in public schools to hear materials critical of evolution in biology classes. The new curriculum mentions that theories of life arising from similar building-block molecules through purely random processes can be challenged by recent findings in the fossil record [...]

I don’t know if this is universal, but at the few masajid that I’ve visited on Eid, a select group of 4 or 5 brothers always play “pass the mic.” Someone has to lead the takbir chant, (i.e. “Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar, La ilaha il-Allah…” to the end of that thikr. It is [...]

X.org (http://www.x.org) release has been pushed back to December 7th, which is after the release of KDE (http://www.kde.org) 3.5 (not that it necessarily matters).
The new “planet” affectionately referred to as “Xena” (with a moon named Gabrielle), by its discoverers, might not be a planet afterall. It seems there has always been some dispute about [...]