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I have a friend who is buying their kid an XBox 360 core system for christmas. They're not terribly computer literate, and I'm not terribly game console literate, and they've read that the system can connect to the internet and are asking me about the potential uses and abuses. Their kid wants...

http://www.shoutwire.com/viewstory/14077/Can_A_Black_Box_See_Into_the_Future The machine apparently sensed the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre four hours before they happened - but in the fevered mood of conspiracy theories of the time, the claims were swiftly knocked back by...

Couple of nights ago, somebody posed an interesting question, something like this: "I am an atheist. Yet I act in an entirely ethical manner. Why do I do this?" This is certainly a very good question. I shall now attempt to answer it. To do that, I shall need the help of somebody I met here...

I have a plastic battery box with an on-off switch. It can hold 4 AA size 1.5V batteries to give a 6V voltage source. I placed some batteries in it. These are not new batteries. When I turn it on and measure it with a digtal multimeter, it shows around 4.4V. When I turn off the switch, it...

...well, you know what I mean...

Discussing (well talking to a wall really) with xians of various flavours from fundy to tea-and-biscuit believers I usually end up asking the question "Are you a chocolate box xian that just chooses the bits you like from the bible?" I admire the ones that admit that they do and it works for...

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- "Batman Begins" took in $26.8 million to remain the top movie for the second straight weekend, but it could not keep Hollywood from sinking to its longest modern box-office slump. Theater revenues have skidded about 7 percent compared to last year. Factoring in...

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/11/25/jesus.box.ap/index.html Interesting..

I'm still new to these forums so appologies if this has been discussed before, but it's something I found interesting. Thanks to my upbringing I've never looked on evolution as fact, and I've always found the fact that there is the so called missing-link, to be very convienient for...