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More t-shirt genius from Jeremy Kalgreen – I’m Voting Tea Party

naontiotami — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 23:26:23 +0000

Yes, my favourite t-shirt designer, Jeremy Kalgreen (responsible for these awesome projects), has a new line of designs out, this time based around the right-wing and slightly-crazy beliefs of the US Tea Party movement. It’s called I’m Voting Tea Party. Here are a few samples:

Darwin’s Finches T-shirt design by ThinkGeek

naontiotami — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:09:10 +0000

Mmm-mmm, delicious geeky t-shirt designs, I can’t get enough of them. This one recently caught my eye over on ThinkGeek:

Here’s the description:

Sure, Darwin noticed the gradation in beak size of his “finches” in the Galápagos Islands, but he missed some big differences. For instance, we could have had significantly more 19th century science fiction if he’d noticed the Vampire Finch (Geospiza difficilis septentrionalis), which feeds on the blood of other birds. Our own team of ThinkGeek Junior Ornithological Knowledge Explorers has, consulting the excellent research conducted by Drs. Marvel and DeeCee, discovered six new variations also evolving from the Tiaris obscura:

a. super intelligence (for outsmarting Darwin)

b. super beak (for eating stale bread crusts tossed by tourists)

c. super eyes (for seeing through the garua)

d. super limbs (for outmaneuvering the Vampire Finch)

e. super speed (for visiting friends on the mainland)

f. super squawk (for broadcasting the latest volcanic activity)

Excellent comment on the “Tetrapod Tracks” issue from The Panda’s Thumb

naontiotami — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 08:54:24 +0000

I think this comment on “Casey Luskin embarrasses himself again” on The Panda’s Thumb blog perfectly summarises the entire tetrapod-tracks-20-million-years-before-Tiktaalik-disproves-evolution argument that the Discovery Institute has recently been pushing around:

Leszek wrote:

So basically the “great minds” of creationism have come up with the argument:

If tetrapods evolved from Tiktaalik, why are there still tiktaaliks around [10 million years later]?

It seems to me I have heard this before somewhere.…

Oh Leszek, how very, very true that is. *chortle*

Xenu Airlines T-shirt design by Teach the Controversy

naontiotami — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:15:51 +0000

Jeremy Kalgreen is on a designing spree at the moment and has churned out some wonderful t-shirts in the last few weeks, but this one is my favourite of the bunch – Xenu Airlines:

It’s a stab at Scientology, if you hadn’t realised. You’ve just got to love those Teach the Controversy designs…

Ben Goldacre is Rathergood-ed

naontiotami — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:13:01 +0000

You know Ben Goldacre, right? The author of Bad Science, both the book and the website? Then you might appreciate this gem from rathergood.com: