There were three men around the fire, with the smell of coffee and of bacon frying. It was a two-bit camp in mighty rough country, with three saddle-broncs and a packhorse standing under a lightning-struck cottonwood. "Howdy," I said. "You boys receivin' visitors, or is this a closed meetin'?" They were all looking me over, but one said, "You're here, mister. Light and set."
From "The Man From the Broken Hills" by Louis L'Amour


Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Gaggle

You may be aware that occasionally, on really monumental days, Google will replace their trademark, colorful logo. Most recently, they recognized Earth Day with a stylized rendering of their name. Of course Earth Day is worthy of such recognition, since it is our most important holiday.



Today, they have replaced the uber-iconic logo with Ida, the newly pronounced missing link.


In case you haven't heard, this billions-of-year-old fossil of a lemur monkey is the missing link that proves that Darwin was right.

I admit, I was a bit skeptical, especially when I heard that the 'newly revealed' missing link was actually discovered over 25 years ago (I guess the scientists just needed time to make sure that the discovery was legitimate before they announced their findings to the world). But then I came over to my favorite search engine, and low and behold, the familiar blue-red-yellow-blue-green-red logo was relaced with none other than this soon-to-be-famous dead animal!

Well, throw away your bibles and lock the church doors. Creationism is dead, along with all of the other mythology that went with it. Wah-hoo the war is over! Thanks for validating this for us Google!

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