Pre-Game Coin Toss

Best Onion piece EVAR — at least since they reported on the fate of the 9/11 hijackers.

OT:
There are now videos available of new life-forms being created

http://video.google.com/videop.....6978176361

Seriously though, I’m thinking of getting “Spore” for my kid. (I’ll assist him with it, of course). If I understand it correctly, you (the player) become the intelligent designer for life-forms on earth.

Here’s the wiki game description:

“Spore is a multi-genre single-player online game..developed by Maxis and designed by Will Wright. It allows a player to control the evolution of a species from its beginnings as a unicellular organism, through development as an intelligent and social creature, to interstellar exploration as a spacefaring culture. It has drawn wide attention for its massive scope, and its use of open-ended gameplay and procedural generation.”

Oddly enough, the word evolution in the wiki description above links to the wiki evolution page that allows no possibility of design – even though the evolution in the game is clearly guided!

If you want to see something even funnier, John Cleese made the following video

http://funkwarehouse.com/jcpod.....ast_32.mp4

Off topic video and article:

Inside ‘Big Bang’ tunnel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c_WQGLHgvc

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....c/big_bang

Funny, but I wish it didn’t take suicide so lightly

If life has no meaning or purpose, how else can you take suicide?

But, of course, life does have purpose, so I see your point.

It’s just that I know at least three people, two that I graduated with, from my high school that have committed suicide. It’s a sensitive issue for me.