EWR: Man Alive! It’s Twenty-Five!

Somebody is RIGHT on the Internet!!!!11!! …I would like to start by apologising for our handling of this situation. We have not communicated well with our forum volunteers and users (for example in my insensitive ‘Outrage’ post, which was written in the heat of the moment). In the process we have caused unintended hurt and…

I admit up front that I’m going all paternalistic on the Dawkins Forum people, and Imma gonna let you finish your imminent self destruction and all, but first I wanted to use this moment in time as an object lesson in communication. A letter was recently posted somewhere by the RDF forum staff to Richard,…

One of the reasons I blog is to put out stuff to see how others react to it. This is to ultimately modify and improve …. the stuff. I was rather amused a while back when we were discussing racist science, and I was accused of intentionally putting stuff out there to see what reactions…

According to The Internet, the Canadian females, many under drinking age by several days, partied on the ice after beating the American Team in Vancouver yesterday. They had champaign, beers, smoked cigars, and they got silly, attempting at one point to drive the Zamboni machine around on the ice!!!! Outrage!!!!

… In other words, the next version of the Linux Kernel, versoin 2.6.33, is hereby released.

And not just because PZ Myers gets t00n’d.

Imagine that you, as a greatly liked and respected person, found yourself overnight subjected to personal vilification on an unprecedented scale, from anonymous commenters on a website. Suppose you found yourself described as an “utter twat” a “suppurating rectum. A suppurating rat’s rectum. A suppurating rat’s rectum inside a dead skunk that’s been shoved up…

A preview.

Don’t click on this or you will be distracted for the rest of the evening!

…. do NOT click on this link and play with this thing. Hat Tip: Emma D.

Not to stir up more trouble, but …

Read Blunt Force English at Quiche Moraine

… well, not really, but they should!!! Following two simple guidelines would help: 1) Don’t ever change the function of installed software unless the user has requested it (don’t even suggest it. Just sit there quietly until told othewise) and 2) Don’t evern install new software. Ever. That is the user’s job, not Google’s or…

… especially for those I left behind. “Oh… you’re back. I see.” “Huh. Thought you might be staying in the hospital longer than that.” “Oh hai. I suppose you want your good chair back.”

… steady … steady …

An endless stream of ceiling tiles flow by punctuated by light fixtures, vents, and sprinkler heads. There is the occasional cracked tile and yes, the occasional duct tape. The morphine makes it interesting, and it occurs to me that until now I’ve only had this particular view of the world by seeing it on TV…

It is with some reluctance that I recommend this. Lovecraft was important in science fiction and all, but the little I’ve read of his also stinks of racism, and not just the n-word southerny Mark Twain thing, but a true disdain for all that is not Mighty White. (This would be a case where rewriting…

Everyone else on the internet is wrong “…when The End comes, some white supremecist militia is just gonna kill you for your pickled kale before they resort to eating each other.” Simple answers to stupid implications I won’t claim that no one has ever cited a warm weekend as evidence of global warming, but the…

Trust and Critical Thinking at Science Online 2010. There is discussion going on here, and the six videos are here:

Why? I’m not entirely sure. I guess so you can bring it on an airplane and play Super Mario Kart while traveling?

Café Scientifique: Waste = Food Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 7 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater, Minneapolis, MN Tickets: $5-$12 Call 612-825-8949 for reservations University of Minnesota College of Design alum Sarah Wolbert promotes an ingenious view of rebalancing urban food systems – one that involves design of detritivore and decomposition systems…