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Remember last week when I said this about some water guy? And remember when I said that “I really don’t expect to ever get an actual reference to a real life journal article”?

Well guess what?  They have not responded at all!

So what can I conclude from this?  Dr. Don Colbert makes shit up and profits.  Hooray!

I sent them a polite reminder, just to see what would happen:

Hi,

I still have not recieved an answer to these questions.  Should I just assume that no one has responded because there simply are no journal references?  Does Dr. Colbert  make up the information which he then uses as a basis to sell his products? Is this ethical?

Please let me know.

Jason

This is an adventure that happened to me recently involving my M-Audio Trigger Finger, one of the devices I use to make music.  Please watch the whole thing, YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE the ending.

I hope everyone has fun selectively remembering poorly supported aspects of our nation’s history with their families!

I want to try to make a point of posting a link to articles about new transitional forms as they are discovered, which happens surprisingly often.  I’ve done it once before, that I can remember*, and I missed an awesome one that was written about over the summer.  I created a special category called Transitional Forms so that there will be a handy list of recent discoveries that people can reference when dealing with creationists.

So, onto today’s link: Odontochelys, a 220 million year old turtle with a shell on bottom, but not on top. Amazingly cool!

* I found two more.

Geoff and I are doing another Three Ninjas show.  For some reason, this is always the last place I think to mention it.  It’s going to be next Sunday, 11/30 at El Corazon in Seattle. Tickets are $9 in advance, purchable from me, $10 at the door, which opens at 6:15.  I hope to see you there! Other Jason, do you think you’ll be there?

Whenever there is someone next to me in a bathroom stall, I have the overwhelming urge to reach my camera-filled hand up over the stall’s separation mechanism and take the person’s photo, not because I need a picture of them doing their toilet work, but because of how it will make them feel.

Evolution says that a mouse becomes a moose, or a goose becomes a moose, a birch becomes a perch, a horsefly becomes a horse, and a frog becomes a Prince. Yes, it is a fairy tale too unbelievable for the brothers Grimm to include. [Source]

This guy is full of zingers, but this passage was the point where I was all, “ok, I have to post this, yo.”  I can’t link to it directly, so just do a ctrl+F for “Teno” or scroll down to comment #507.  There is a lot to read!

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UPDATE!

I just had to add this one.  Holy shit!

Then comes the gap between soft creatures and invertebrates. Invertebrates have no backbone, so they instead have a shell like a lobster. How could soft tissue evolve into a lobster shell with no transitional phases on the way? Houdini could not pull that one off.

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UPDATE II!!

Attn: Teno

I now feel confident in saying that you are stupid.

Think about this, how did sea life supposedly evolve up into mammals, and then the whales decided to go back into the water? Are whales backsliders?

And finally, the last three songs of the evening:

Three Ninjas - Live @ Studio 7 10/22/08 Part 5 from Jason J Brunet on Vimeo.

He got a four in science!  That’s the highest you can get!  His mom and I are so proud of him!  GREAT JOB FELIX!!

Last year, if you recall, I suggest some Christmas curse words to alert people to the fact that you’re in the holiday spirit.  This year, my friend Mr. Spider has suggested some Thanksgiving curse words.

So, if you’d normally shout,  “EFFWORD TWATHOLE! WHERE IS HIS HEAD? WHERE IS HIS DOUCHETAG BITCHTARD HEAD!”, for the next week or so you can shout, “TURKEY AND GRAVY! WHERE IS HIS HEAD? WHERE IS HIS APPLE PIE AND WHIPPED CREAM HEAD!”

Good luck!