Monthly Archives: August 2004
Oooh emergency
First incident so far – the plaza is blocked off. There are men in white suits in the fountain blocking it off. something’s afoot.
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Yes, we have a soul. But it’s made of lots of tiny robots.
I just happened to stumble upon FretDFire’s first blog entry which launched me off into a flurry of searches on Daniel C Dennet. He wrote a book called Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, which seems to contain this insightful tidbit: [I]f you want to *reason* about faith, and offer a reasoned (and reason-responsive) defense of faith as [...]
Bugmenot we hardly knew ye
Bugmenot.com was a great idea. An idea whose time had clearly come. And an idea whose time, it seems has clearly gone. The idea was this. Instead of you registering for a new site every time you wanted to read a new york times article, you just go to bugmenot and they would hand you [...]
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Just call me Rev.
The Proof Yes, I am an actual Reverend. Yes it is a legitimate church. It’s older than most of my friends are. Yes, I also do funerals and I absolve sins at the drop of a hat. Wouldn’t you rather be getting your religion from Reverend Katz than from some other, older, obsolete religions?
HATEBEAK
I was reading an MSDN blog and it mentioned HATEBEAK. No one at my office seems to find the concept of a death metal band fronted by a parrot as funny as I do, so I sit in my little cubicle, listening to their
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The worker gene!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3557310.stm I, for one, welcome our soon to arrive monkey overlords.
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More tools in the fight for truth.
Here are 38 practical responses to rhetorical tricks: What a wonderful place to click your mouse.
Battery $1, $1, $1
I noticed the other day that I no longer see any of the battery mexicans or the squeaky toy chinese ladies. Where did they go? It may be that I am spending less time on the subway, but I expressed my worries to my friend in SC. She had some theories: As far as the [...]
Ooh heaven is a place on Mars