Micro$oft pulls a Folgers switch (kind of).

CNET News.com reports:

Spurred by an e-mail from someone deep in the marketing ranks, Microsoft last week traveled to San Francisco, rounding up Windows XP users who had negative impressions of Vista. The subjects were put on video, asked about their Vista impressions, and then shown a “new” operating system, code-named Mojave. More than 90 percent gave positive feedback on what they saw. Then they were told that “Mojave” was actually Windows Vista.

Sounds a little like the “Folger’s Switch” from years ago.

Instead trying this on XP fans, try it with some Mac-vangelists or fellow Linux fans.  Then you’ll impress me.

Man blows up apartment spraying for bugs.

A New Jersey [of course, New Jersey] man trying to exterminate insects in his apartment blew it up instead, the New York Daily News reported on Monday.  Isias Vidal Maceda was unhurt in the incident, but 80 percent of his apartment was destroyed… More at Reuters

My guess.  The bugs survived.

Dobson says he may endorse McCain (OneNewsNow.com)

Just when I thought Dr. Dobson had gotten all the Kool-Aid out of his system, I read this from ONN:

Conservative Christian leader James Dobson has softened his stance against Republican presidential hopeful John McCain, saying he could reverse his position and endorse the Arizona senator despite serious misgivings. “I never thought I would hear myself saying this,” Dobson said in a pre-taped radio broadcast “…While I am not endorsing Senator John McCain, the possibility is there that I might.”

Dobson and other evangelical leaders unimpressed by McCain increasingly are taking a lesser-of-two-evils approach to the 2008 race. Dobson and his guest, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Albert Mohler, spend most of the pretaped Focus on the Family radio program criticizing Democratic candidate Barack Obama, getting to McCain at the very end.

All I can say is Don’t do it, Jim.  You’ll regret it.

The rest of Dr. Dobon’s “Death of Conscience” is at OneNewsNow.com

Awesome Moth

Moth One of the most stunning of the wonders in the insect world is on the Emperor Speckled Moth (Gynanisa maja) from southern Africa, a member of the silkmoth group. To scare predators away, its wings display this strikingly accurate rendition of a mammal’s face—even the sparkle in the pupils!

Many other day-flying silk moths have eye spots decorating their wings, but only the Emperor Speckled Moth has such an elaborate design.

Secular scientists do not even try to explain the details of how such a masterful living painting could have occurred, but they believe….