Internet 2009 in numbers

Some very interesting stats on a Royal Pingdom post. Here’s a selection of those that particularly interest me:

Email

90 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009.
247 billion – Average number of email messages per day.
1.4 billion – The number of email users worldwide.
100 million – New email users since the year [...]

Science, Creation and all that Jazz

This is the event at which I’m speaking on Friday evening:

Sponsored search results lead to malware

Susan Bradley writes in Windows Secrets (8 October 2009):

The ads served by Bing and Google along with your search results are linking more and more often to sites trying to infect your machine.

Neither Bing nor Google effectively prescreens these bogus advertisers, so it's up to us to detect and avoid them.

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Creation

Image courtesy Icon Film Distribution © 2009
This article was first published on Culturewatch.org. © Tony Watkins, 2010

Today sees the release in UK cinemas of Creation, marking the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth. Husband and wife Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly give beautifully nuanced performances as Charles and Emma Darwin experiencing a difficult period of [...]

Talking About . . . Darwin

As the world marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, his influence on the world is as enormous as ever. Whatever you think of his ideas, there’s no doubt that they have shaped science and profoundly affected many aspects of contemporary culture. Darwin’s meticulous work established the natural sciences as a serious scientific discipline for the first time. If this was Darwin’s only legacy, he would still be a towering figure in the history of science. But for most people, his name is linked only with On the Origin of Species. [...]

Culturewatch.tv on ‘Creation’

I recently interviewed Nick Spencer for a one-off Culturewatch.tv video on Creation, the forthcoming film about Charles Darwin. Nick is the author of Darwin and [...]

‘Creation’ tells of Charles Darwin’s war between science and love -

Nev Pierce has written a piece about Creation in the LA Times.

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Darwin’s continuing relevance is one reason why “Creation” has been selected to open Toronto, which usually kicks off with a home-grown picture. “It’s a bit of a tradition for us to open with a Canadian film, yes,” [...]

Lego Mindstorms Rubik’s cube solver – via @timoreilly

via tiltedtwister.com

There’s video of this brilliant contraption. And building instructions – I can see where tomorrow might be going. The clever man who assembled this, Hans Anderson, has also built a sudoku solver using the Lego Mindstorms kit. I’m impressed.

Posted via web from Tony Watkins

Resources for churches and communities: Creation the movie (UK release: 25th Sept.)

Charles Darwin: eminent scientist, loving husband, grieving father. The film Creation explores the different sides to the man who some believe had ‘the biggest single idea in the history of thought’. Even today, Darwin’s legacy is at the centre of contemporary debate about our understanding of who we are and what it means to be human. This film explores the implications of Darwin’s theories, and the way that tragic events in his family life influenced his doubts about [...]

Test of Faith

Test of Faith (http://u.nu/3zf33) is a resource from the Faraday Institute for small groups to explore issues of science, faith and ethics. It includes a DVD documentary, but now eleven clips from it are now available online (about a third of the total video [...]