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The Ultimate Star Trek Collection - for the life-lacking basement dwellers among us, costs only $2500US and includes 212 DVDs containing everything ever produced under the Star Trek name... with the glaring omission of the Animated Series from the 70's, which admittedly has not yet been released on DVD.
Encouraging news from China, that Elephant in the Energy-Consuming Corner - they are building four 'eco-cities' that are supposed to be self-sufficient on energy and water, and aiming for zero emissions. Not a bad idea at all. Hope it proves successful. The whole world should pay attention to this. If China can do it, anyone can.
Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, has a blog.
Vatican Rejects Intelligent Design?
"A Vatican representative has expressed a defense of the theory of evolution, stating that it is "perfectly compatible" with the Genesis story of creation. "The fundamentalists want to give a scientific meaning to words that had no scientific aim," he said at a Vatican press conference. He said the real message in Genesis was that "the universe didn't make itself and had a creator"." Of course, it'd probably be best if fundmentalists actually talked to, say, the rabbis who wrote the whole thing down. The Orthodox rabbis I've spoken find it amazingly amusing that people take the creation story as literal truth, rather then a story about YHWH's power."