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Safari on the iPad does not colour manage

I actually found this out by accident. I’d upload some jpeg photos to my website but unfortunately I forgot to convert the profile from ProPhoto RGB to sRGB when saving from PSD to jpeg. I initially saw no problems on my Windows 7 machine using a wide-gamut calibrated profiled display as I use Firefox which [...]

The religious who spout nonsense on evolution

Coyne blogs about Madison Murphy’s article regarding evolution. “Only a theory”??? http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/only-a-theory/ I do wonder if the religious such as Murphy are incompetent, or deluded, or if they deliberately aim to mislead and lie. The website http://notjustatheory.com/ has more information regarding evolution, theory and fact: not just a theory . com http://notjustatheory.com/ …from this I’ll [...]

Google returns to its evil ways

Just when I thought that those annoying Google popups telling me to install Google Chrome had gone way, those evil things made their return yesterday to IE7, IE9, Firefox 9 and 10, and Safari. Strangely that damn popup did not appear in Opera. What does it take to destroy that annoying Google popup? Clearly Google [...]

LSE and UCL – mistaken, misguided and mismanaged

I’ve been watching with increasing bewilderment and concern over the reaction of two London universities (London School of Economics and University College London) to the “Jesus and Mo” pictures. Coyne of “Why Evolution Is True” has a couple of posts on this today: More censorship at British universities http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/more-censorship-at-british-universities/ Apropos http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/apropos-2/ Pharyngula also has a [...]

Steven Novella on Traditional Chinese Medicine

Great article by Steven Novella on the weaknesses and misunderstandings of “Traditional Chinese Medicine”: What Is Traditional Chinese Medicine? http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/what-is-traditional-chinese-medicine/ Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2012

The increase in junk programmes

Donald Prothero has got this spot on regarding the increase in junk programmes on supposedly science/factual TV channels. Science TV “network decay” http://www.skepticblog.org/2012/01/25/science-tv-sell-out/ Subjectively I did notice this trend but wondered if I was misperceiving. I gave up on the History Channel years ago (I don’t even know if the word “History” has any meaning [...]

Burzynski and Yes to Life charity in trouble

All this recent exposure of the controversy surrounding the Burzynski Clinic has exposed the Yes to Life charity to scrutiny and, especially, the charity’s funding from benefit concerts. As always, Quackometer has a blog on this: Burzynski Supporting Charity Loses Funding http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2012/01/burzynski-supporting-charity-loses-funding.html Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2012

The Ten Commandments- the basis of our laws and morals

Another great video from NonStampCollector: Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2012

Google now less annoying and less abusive; kind off

Further to what I think of as Google abusing its dominant position in constantly targeting Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browsers and asking the user to switch to Google’s Chrome browser, there appears to be a change now. My previous rants on this: Google, you’re still annoying me and abusing your position http://www.metalvortex.com/blog/2011/12/16/718.html Google abusing its dominant [...]

The evils of religion

Here’s a typical example of the violent and evil behaviours of the religious: Why Is an Atheist High School Student Getting Vicious Death Threats? http://www.alternet.org/belief/153803/why_is_an_atheist_high_school_student_getting_vicious_death_threats/?page=entire It’s quite simple. The religious are not at all comfortable in their delusions and instinctively lash out at those that expose the irrationality and fragility of the religious mind. So [...]