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Category: Atheism
I would very much like your help in picking out a tee-shirt to wear around town. Let me tell you about the town, and you'll be able to make an appropriate suggestion....
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:00 AM • 52 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Troll Bait
You all know who Kanye West is. Personally, I had never heard of the man until yesterday afternoon. But then, until yesterday afternoon I thought MTV was a cable television network that played music videos, so what do I know. But never mind that. We're...
Posted by Greg Laden at 4:46 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Anthropology
It has been said that the only way to effect real change in important socio-political debates is to be very aggressive and unapologetically rude in making arguments. Civility and politeness are the hobgoblins of the Western Heternormative Colonoracist Patriarchy. I personally feel that there are...
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:49 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: OpenSource
The way IT is managed is totally borked. This is a travesty. But a change is coming. A change we can use.
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:00 PM • 37 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: LHC
According to a widely disseminated story (see this) the Large Hadron Collider broke only hours after it started operations last week. This is an atrocity and an example of something seriously, endemically wrong with science more generally....
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:19 AM • 33 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Anthropology
Dr. Isis at On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess has written an open letter to our sister, Zuska, regarding (in part) the exchanges between my Sbling and myself. Dr. Isis points out that she has had a long term academic interests in breasts, which...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:10 AM • 54 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: OpenSource
How can Google be taken seriously if a) it runs it's own business on LAMP servers using mainly Python; b) develops a multi-threaded browser with a memory-conservative development API; c) call it all open source and d) make it available only on Windows? Since Google...
Posted by Greg Laden at 7:26 PM • 71 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Americans revel in violence. We have an excuse for almost any kind of violent or oppressive act. When a young boy poking around, on a dare, in what he thought was an abandoned house was shot dead by my neighbor last year, the boy was...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:57 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
