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Monday, June 22, 2009

I Never Got To Say Goodbye.

As noted a href="http://instaputz.blogspot.com/2009/06/oh-no-k-lo.html"here/a and a href="http://gawker.com/5291469/national-review-online-is-sadly-losing-its-chief-source-of-batshit-craziness"elsewhere/a, our beloved Kathryn Jean Lopezbr /br /strikehas been shitcanned/strikebr /strikeis leaving to spend more time with her cats/strikebr /br /is moving to DC.br /br /A look back at the crazy:br /br /-- K-Lo a href="http://instaputz.blogspot.com/2009/03/so-cute.html"boycotts verbs/abr /br /-- K-Lo a href="http://instaputz.blogspot.com/2009/02/secret-lives-of-conservatives.html"fantasizes/a about a Bork/Bennett sandwichbr /br /-- K-Lo a href="http://instaputz.blogspot.com/2009/01/thanks-lot-k-lo.html"quarantinedbr //abr /-- K-Lo a href="http://instaputz.blogspot.com/2008/11/dear-k-lo_02.html"hatin' on gaysbr //abr /-- K-Lo a href="http://instaputz.blogspot.com/2008/10/why-obama-will-win.html"reconsiders/a the Third Law of Thermodynamicsbr /br /-- K-Lo a href="http://instaputz.blogspot.com/2008/08/k-lo-theres-special-place-in-hell-just.html"makes/a BT angrybr /br /-- K-Lo wants to a href="http://instaputz.blogspot.com/2009/05/just-desserts.html"give her flower/a to Rushbr /br /-- K-Lo wrote something a href="http://instaputz.blogspot.com/2008/11/k-lo.html"not-stupid/adiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26747494-1608942078967612547?l=instaputz.blogspot.com'//div

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The 2nd Kakiscript Playwriting Competition

Kakiseni a href="http://www.kakiseni.com/articles/features/MTM2NA.html"have announced a second playwriting competition/a :br /span style="font-style: italic;"/spanblockquotespan style="font-style: italic;"In 2007, we launched the Kakiscript Playwriting Competition, and were inundated by entries from all over the country. Ten winners were selected, and the prize-winning plays were published in a book, 100 Minutes to Change the World./spanbr /br /span style="font-style: italic;"We’re ready for more./spanbr /br /span style="font-style: italic;"The 2nd Kakiscript Playwriting Competition, the richest playwriting competition in the country, is back and you have 3 months, or 93 days to create a ten minute play. A great ten-minute play, to be precise./spanbr /br /span style="font-style: italic;"Read on for more information./spanbr /br /span style="font-style: italic;"What We Are Looking For/spanbr /br /span style="font-style: italic;"This year, we’re setting a theme : Conflict/Resolution/spanbr /br /span style="font-style: italic;"We are looking for original, sophisticated works, which explore the idea of conflict, or the idea of resolution, or conflict and resolution jointly, or conflict versus resolution. If you have a different interpretation of the theme that we’ve suggested here, go for it!/spanbr /br /span style="font-style: italic;"Just make sure your work is engaging and rooted in the Malaysian experience./spanbr /br /span style="font-style: italic;"Each play must run for duration of around 10 minutes, plus or minus two minutes. Submissions can be plays written in either English or Malay -- or a combination of both./spanbr /br /span style="font-style: italic;"Note that we are looking for literature intended for performance; in other words, you should think about your play as theatre on stage as you write./spanbr /br /span style="font-style: italic;"What We Don’t Want/spanbr /br /span style="font-style: italic;"We’re not looking for didactic or dogmatic plays. You are encouraged to contextualise your play with social and political issues, but don’t assume we want social or political tracts and commentaries. We want quality theatre. If you need to preach, write a sermon -- but don’t send it to us./spanbr /br /span style="font-style: italic;"Why?/spanbr /br /span style="font-style: italic;"Kakiscript aims to encourage the creation of new, original Malaysian plays. We hope it will be an incentive for existing playwrights to produce work, and also an opportunity to unearth new talent. We also hope to encourage the creative exploration of issues affecting contemporary Malaysia./spanbr /br /span style="font-style: italic;"We will be publishing the ten winning entries in print, in a single volume; they will also be available for download from Kakiseni.com./spanbr /br /span style="font-style: italic;"Did We Mention Prizes?/spanbr /br /span style="font-style: italic;"The playwright of the winning entry will receive RM10,000 in cash. Two runners-up will receive RM5,000 each. Seven consolation prize winners will receive RM2,000 each./spanspan style="font-style: italic;" /spanspan style="font-style: italic;"/span/blockquotespan style="font-style: italic;"/spanSee the website for further information and rules.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7912730-6150471352222762904?l=thebookaholic.blogspot.com'//div

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Ignoring the Issues on the Origin of Life

strongBiological Information: The Puzzle of Life that Darwinism span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"Hasn/span’t Solvedbr //strongbr /By Stephen Meyerbr /br /Today’s New York Times features an a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/16/science/16orig.html?_r=2amp;src=twtamp;twt=nytimes"article/a by science writer Nicholas Wade highlighting what Wade calls “surprising advances [that] have renewed confidence that a terrestrial explanation for life’s origins will eventually emerge.”br /br /Yet the scientists quoted in the article fail to address the fundamental issue that has generated the longstanding impasse in the field: the problem of the origin of biological information.br /br /Wade describes the various developments in span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"pre/span-biotic chemistry that are making some scientists more optimistic about solving the problem of the origin of life. Yet, the central problem facing them is not the synthesis of span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"pre/span-biotic building blocks or even discovering an environment in which life might have plausibly arisen—difficult as these problems have proven to be. Instead, the fundamental problem is getting the chemical building blocks to arrange themselves into the large information-bearing molecules (such as DNA and RNA) that direct the show in living cells.br /br /Even the experiments of Gerald Joyce that Wade describes do not address this problem. The “self-replicating” RNA molecules that Joyce constructs are not capable of copying a template of information from free standing chemical subunits as the polymerase machinery does in actual cells. Instead, in Joyce’s experiment, a span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"pre/span-synthesized specifically-sequenced RNA molecule merely catalyzes a single chemical bond, thus fusing two other span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"pre/span-synthesized partial RNA chains. More significantly, Joyce intelligently arranged the matching base sequences in these RNA chains. Thus, as my forthcoming book a href="http://www.signatureinthecell.com/"Signature in the Cell/a shows, Joyce’s experiments not only demonstrate that self-replication itself depends upon information-rich molecules, but they also confirm that intelligent design is the only known means by which information arisesbr /br /Posted by Stephen C. Meyer on June 16, 2009 2:51 PM at a href="http://www.discovery.org/"http://www.discovery.org//adiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14410967-4341015867822156703?l=theconstructivecurmudgeon.blogspot.com'//div

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