• DIY

    Eee PC School: Add a Keyboard Backlight For Under $15

    By Posted on 5.22.2008 11 Comments

    As we showed you in our May 2008 issue, Asus's Eee PC has quickly become a favorite of hardware hackers around the web. Here, we offer the first installment of our Eee PC School series. Check back in the coming weeks for more tiny ultraportable tweaking.—Eds. What good is that portable PC if you can’t type anywhere and anytime? With its ultra-compact keyboard, even touch typing pros will be hard-pressed to avoid frequent mistakes on when the lights go out. To say it’s a frustrating exercise in futility to locate the miniature F3 key in the dark is an understatement. Oops, you just lost WiFi contact by accidentally hitting F2.

    3.7.2009 at 02:58pm - Comment by jones3420012001

    In this edition of Not-So-Popular Science..........

  • DIY

    Eee PC School: Add a Keyboard Backlight For Under $15

    By Posted on 5.22.2008 11 Comments

    As we showed you in our May 2008 issue, Asus's Eee PC has quickly become a favorite of hardware hackers around the web. Here, we offer the first installment of our Eee PC School series. Check back in the coming weeks for more tiny ultraportable tweaking.—Eds. What good is that portable PC if you can’t type anywhere and anytime? With its ultra-compact keyboard, even touch typing pros will be hard-pressed to avoid frequent mistakes on when the lights go out. To say it’s a frustrating exercise in futility to locate the miniature F3 key in the dark is an understatement. Oops, you just lost WiFi contact by accidentally hitting F2.

    3.7.2009 at 02:58pm - Comment by jones3420012001

    In this edition of Not-So-Popular Science..........

  • Entertainment & Gaming

    Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

    By Posted on 2.27.2008 39 Comments

    Everybody's favorite dead-pan teacher and game show host, Ben Stein, is the face of a new documentary to be released this April called "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed". It's ostensibly a movie about attacks on freedom of speech in today's hostile climate among scientists in academia, but on closer inspection it really seems to be a thinly veiled screed for Intelligent Design.

    3.5.2008 at 11:23pm - Comment by jones3420012001

    I consider myself to be a Christian as well as an intelligent individual. I am not sure that there is a need for some people to insinuate a lack of intelligence in people who do believe in ID. I find myself somewhere in between the opposition. I am frustrated by the narrow vision of both sides, unwilling to accept any notion that resides outside their preconceived comfort zone. I have run into Christians who are repulsed by the theory of evolution because of the remarks made by their Sunday school teacher as well as the evolutionist that claims anyone who believes otherwise is an idiot. I believe that what science has shown in the fossil record can be a tribute to intelligent design; how much more intelligent is a design that is not static, but able to persist and adapt to the dynamic world we live in. My advice - fold back the blinders and try to see in shades of grey in stead of black or white.



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