the world is your acorn

In January a federal judge in Atlanta ruled that stickers placed on textbooks in Cobb County, GA are unconstitutional because they violate the separation between church and state. The stickers let all unsuspecting young readers know that evolution is a theory, not a fact. This week, fourteen temp workers have been hired to scrape the stickers off. The school system is appealing.

Evolution Theory Temporarily Not Harmful to Your Health [Wonkette]
Anti-evolution stickers on schoolbooks removed [Boing Boing]

Seattle’s Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame displays things like the robot from Dr. Who, R2D2, the Queen Alien from Aliens, and a figure of Charleston Heston from Planet of the Apes.

…within this phantasmagorical array of memorabilia, film and collectibles, a portrait of the history of the future does begin to take shape. The opening exhibit room, wrapped in a band of stars like a planetarium, offers a timeline of science fiction as the exhibits survey its preoccupations, its overlap with real science, its concerns with society, its fans turned practitioners.

Sci-Fi Synergy [New York Times]
History of the Future [New York Times Slideshow]
Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame Homepage

Cybernet’s Navigaze software gives Windows users the ability to control the cursor using head movement and eye blinks, through a webcam. I guess it must be similar to the way EyeToy for PS2 works, although I don’t know much about it. If it is, then it can’t possibly have the precision that a regular mouse has. Anyone know?

Navigaze software brings gesture recognition to PCs [engadget]

A beer truck overturned this morning in Nashville where I-65 and I-40 meet near the downtown area. Everyone grab your straw!

Beer truck wreck shuts down I-65 in Nashville [wmctv.com]