During my lunchtimes, I've been reading and posting messages to various Yahoo! Groups discussing evolution, which has mostly involved arguments with Creationists over what Evolution Theory really says. One of the other posters from the Evolution camp, Michael Suttkus, has collected some of the better Amateur Creationist Theories on his web-design-impared Weird Creationism page. I've seen some of these same stories from other sites, but it's still an eye-opening list to read through.

Well, nipple of the mine blows for above with the pleasure: the Mad Scientist Network is back online and accepting questions! An insoluble database error took the asking and answering forms offline on May 25, and the last 6 months have been difficult without my MadSci fix. Now the questions are pouring in, as if it had never been down, after only the first week. I haven't answered any new ones yet, but my role as moderator has kept me busy, and is often more rewarding. I moderate the Development and Evolution areas, and co-moderate Cell Biology and Molecular Biology, but I have access to the whole incoming questions list, so I can sometimes be seen purposely misleading people in areas I have no expertise in. Bwahahahahahaha!

I have long touted Albino Blacksheep as a great source for Flash animations, but while they're current, their archives are too extensive to search, especially several months out. So I was elated to find the "Fun 4 Friends" archive at Sundog Productions. They have some of my old favorites (including the piano stripper that I can't link to here), as well as some new fun, like "Elmo meets Tigger" and "Squigo" and a supposedly real Dutch commercial that's over 8 MB but worth the fun.

I should really leave this to Walter to publish, but I just can't wait. Quaker® restarted producing Quisp® a couple of years back, but they didn't start any sort of new ad campaign until recently. Behold the retro glory that is "The Adventures of Quisp" by Spümcø (headed by John Kricfalusi). Wow! Jay Ward would have been proud.

Turn is a nice visual phase piece, reminiscent of some of Steven Reich's early audio works.

I think one of these sites is meant to be a satire, but I'm not sure which: Black people love us; or Two Towers Protest.