The waters above.

[reddragdiva]

• ePetition: Put Alan Turing on the next £10 note (by marnanel).

• Bishop to hospital: let women die, that's an order.

• My Wikimedia blog: The public relations agency problem.

Just finishing two weeks' holiday. I had a to-do list this long, so of course I spent the first week sick in bed and the second cleaning for a house inspection.

The thing I actually got done was polishing up two RationalWiki articles for cover status: Freeman on the land and 101 evidences for a young age of the Earth and the universe. The latter is a point-by-point refutation of a comprehensively stupid creationist advocacy piece. I am told by recovered ex-creationists that it would in fact have helped them understand why creationism doesn't work, so we could actually make the world a better place with that second one.

(Wackiest creation science theory of the week: that the Kuiper belt is "the waters above" of Genesis 1:6-8.)

Freda has discovered Tom & Jerry cartoons and thinks they're hilarious. Now to find ones that aren't jawdroppingly racist ...

A Brief History Of Time is immeasurably enhanced by reading it while listening to MC Hawking.

Comments

[reddragdiva]

It was getting two in a row with jungle jigaboo characters in blackface dancing to jazz. The black maid was the least of it.

[greylock]

It was the style of the time.
Never harmed me none.

That said, the '70s were probably a lot more tolerant of "jungle jigaboo characters in blackface dancing to jazz", although I don't believe I never mapped that to "real world darkies".

Still, probably best to save those for when she's older.

I'm sorta surprised kids today are still interested in Tom & Jerry cartoons. I was never a huge fan. I preferred early Warner Brothers (Merrie Melodies) and that sort of thing. And the Sylvester/Kangaroo ones.

Hated Road Runner.

[reddragdiva]

The cartoons are really very well made and written. This is actually good stuff. So the simple plot and, of course, the cartoon violence are just the thing to get a small child laughing like a drain.