The article link will take you to the rantings of an idiot by the name of Tony Ortega who argues not only that evolutionary psychology is stupid but specifically the people working at my university.

my comment to his featured blog:

Great job Tony, you managed to attack an entire field of science without providing any supportive evidence to back up your claims. That's truly impressive. The fact that you were able to write 850 words and yet do so without even accidentally forming one logical thought is a feat not easily accomplished. I find it absolutely astounding that the big shots at Scientific America have failed find someone as wonderful as you to write for them. I can tell you this Tony that I plan at once to cancel my subscription to their awesome magazine until they stop hiring scientifically trained writers who have silly jobs such as being the Director of the Institute of Cognition and Culture at a major university. Instead I hope they get any joe ortege off the streets who relies on passion and emotion rather then scientific data to tell others what is and is not science.

Also I might add Tony it was a nice touch to begin the blog by citing one very extreme racist researcher that used science to push his own agenda. Relying on this as your only example of the evils of evolutionary psychology. If MacDonald had believed that their was a gene for anti-Semitism, would it be correct to then argue that all geneticists are agenda pushing genocidal maniacs.

Tony then goes on to argue that almost all evolutionary psychologists who study sexuality are male sex crazed perverts. The blatant ignorance of your argument leads me to assume that you have not read any research being produced in the area nor have you attended any conferences otherwise you would have noticed that their are a lot of women who also study this. The fact that you believe that only men would be interested in studying sexuality makes you the sexist not them.

Obviously you know little about reproductive behaviors, steaming no doubt from your own lack of experience, and that is probably why you fail to see the need in studying it. Science focused on trying to understand aspects of the anatomy and morphology of the penis and vagina using evolutionary theory or understanding behavioral adaptations toward sexuality is not dirty and it is definitely not pseudoscience. I would actually attempt to explain this to you in further detail and I would be able to do so through providing empirical work rather then just saying it’s stupid, if I thought it would not be lost on you. Do you understand what I am getting at? If you want to take the time to attack a particular theory you need to provide evidence as to why something is incorrect. This is best accomplished by branching out from using one source (Reischel) and actually reading the studies that are actually being produced in the area. While your doing this I would also recommend looking over what the scientific method entails because you seem a bit confused.

I think it would be better for all parties involved Tony if you would take the time to do some research next time you try to attack something that your only knowledge of comes from one girl named Reischel.

In another disgusting display of sexual profiling, a flamboyantly dressed Nurse Shark was assaulted last week by a couple of oppressive scuba-divers in Jupiter, Florida.

The divers identified the free-swimming creature by its neon-pink dress collar, and proceeded to jump the shark in an inhumane frenzy of shallow water judgment.

This single despicable act may have set gay shark rights back 100 years; not to mention a devastating blow to the already damaged public image of Nurse Sharks worldwide.

I can only hope we will one day accept Ginglyhomostoma cirratum as noble, respectable creatures.

This article breaks down what you can expect HTML 5 to do and not do. The primary changes look to be native support for rich media like audio and video and some logical division of document sections negating the need for extremely common div classes - ie footers.

It also looks like some style stuff like underlining will become the sole responsibility of CSS.

This is going to wreak havoc on SEO.

Scott Fujita, a Linebacker with the Super Bowl winning New Orleans Saints has signed as a free agent with the Cleveland Browns. Before leaving however, he donated half his Super Bowl earnings to charity. The gift was divided equally going to both Haiti relief efforts and New Orleans restoration projects.

It's nice to see that there are NFL players who make non-football news without shooting, robbing or raping someone.

Sacha Baron Cohen of Ali-G, Borat and Bruno fame scares the Oscars people so much that they'd prefer he just stay home. Apparently they rejected his bid to host early on and recently cut his presentation skit as well. He was going to be poking fun at James Cameron and Avatar by dressing up as the avatar girl and pretending Cameron was the father of her love child.

Whoever Oscar is, he clearly doesn't have a sense of humor.

If I were them, I'd now be extremely fearful that Cohen was gunning for me. I'd not want to be on that guys shitlist.

Publishers, guided by the attributor.com enforcement company will be starting some level of legal campaign against sites that pirate their media and violate their copyright. Essentially they don't want people taking the contents of entire news articles and putting them on other sites.

They are not seeking past damages. they just want infringing sites to either stop using the material, or pay licensing fees for it.

I'm curious if any of the publishers in the attributor coalition don't offer licensing fees, or if this is just a strong arm advertising campaign for publishers that do.

Either way, remember to be vigilant when writing article summaries to links that you don't accidentally copy it verbatim.

Cool article by Brandon Reinhart of Valve discussing the upcoming engineer update for Team Fortress 2. He goes into detail about a new item - The Repair Node - that was fully developed but ultimately canned due to it's impact on the overall game.

If you are into this kind of thing, this article gives some really cool insight on the game design behind Team Fortress 2 and how they come up with their weapon and map designs.

From the article: "This is usually how we approach our game design: Identify a problem, then discuss the ways it could be solved. Our experience told us that even when the Engineer didn't feel immediate pressure, he still couldn't range out away from his base. If a Spy, Soldier, or Demoman found the base unguarded, it didn't take long to blow up. The further away an Engineer was, the fewer buildings he would be able to save from sapping. We also felt that the Engineer invested a lot of up-front work to establish bases that were very easily destroyed. Thus the repair node was born."

A girl working at a drive through window was handed a leaflet by a customer. The leaflet explained that if you had received it, its because the way you are dressed is tempting men to rape you...even if only in their minds.

It makes me think we should just carry around an arsenal of leaflets for different reasons.

side note: i was also amused that the url was truncated by 1 letter indicating that ungodly dressed women provoke rap. i couldn't agree more.

The FAA has blown a fuse over a child clearing two aircraft for take off. The kids father brought him to work to JFK's air traffic control tower and with an obvious supervision allowed the boy to use the radio to direct the planes to take off.

MS 4-0-3, contact departure, adios," the boy said.

"Adios, amigo," the boy said.

"Adios, amigo," the pilot responded. "Over to departure, Jet Blue 195."

The boys father and his supervisor were forced to take leave pending an investigation.

The FAA is blowing a good thing out of proportion. Its not like it was Jenny Mccarthy's or Sarah Palin's kid...or Sarah Palin for that matter.

Apparently the duo responsible for the record setting video game Modern Warfare 2 and is predecessors are not getting along so well.

There is speculation that Activision is determined to get possession of the Modern Warfare title rights as Infinity Ward apparently has them.

If IW doesn't want to do a Modern Warfare 3, Activision probably does and needs another developer...hence, they need those rights.