Darwin’s theory of evolution was simple, beautiful, majestic and awe-inspiring [Charlie Brooker – The Guardian]
“But because it contradicts the babblings of a bunch of made-up old books, it’s been under attack since day one. Had the Bible claimed gravity is caused by God pulling objects toward the ground with magic threads, we’d still be debating Newton with idiots.”

The Bible and the Quran agree: Insects have four legs [Dwindling In Unbelief]
Why do people belief this stuff?

BioNumbers – The Database of Useful Biological Numbers
If you’re interested in the number of prokaryotes in cattle rumen world-wide. If not this site might not be for you. :)

On a different note some interesting tech stuff

Open Source implementation of Yahoo! Pipes with added semweb goodness [deri.org]
Inspired by Yahoo’s Pipes, DERI Web Data Pipes implement a generalization which can also deal with formats such as RDF (RDFa), Microformats and generic XML.

ActiveRDF – a library for accessing RDF data from Ruby [activerdf.org]
A library for accessing RDF data from Ruby programs. It can be used as a data layer in Ruby-on-Rails, similar to ActiveRecord (which provides an O/R mapping to relational databases).

Load Balancing & QoS with HAProxy [igvita.com]
The worst thing you can do is queue up another request behind an already long running process. To mitigate the problem HAProxy goes beyond a simple round-robin scheduler, and implements a very handy feature: intelligent request queuing!