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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
Senator Claire McCaskill's health care forum. You can't see much detail, but when a couple of black women in an all white room are dragged off by the police, I figure they were probably victims of the growing racism we are seeing in this discourse....
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:17 AM • 20 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: Troll Bait
According to a recent survey, most companies will not deploy Windows 7. They just think it is going to suck and they are not going to have anything to do with it. YouTube will not be supporting IE6 any longer. Once again, an unpatched Microsoft...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:00 PM • 68 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Archaeology
... the interface between simplicity and complexity causes causes little balls of misunderstanding to come flying out of the mix like pieces of raw pizza dough if the guy making the pizza was the Tasmanian Devil ...
Posted by Greg Laden at 8:36 AM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogging
It's great to be anonymous on the blogosphere. We don't need no rules, no names, and no real accountability, neither.
Posted by Greg Laden at 3:02 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Technology
Read over this poor man's experiences (below the fold) and tell me what you think he should do. The options are: 1) Keep using Windows; 2) Switch to using a Mac or Linux; 3) Reboot himself. Bonus question: Name the chump....
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:58 PM • 36 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"If it does not fit, you must acquit" Circumstances can create consequences. If Homer Simpson happens to be opening and closing his mouth in a chewing motion and happens to run into a lemon meringue pie, and thusly happens to eat said pie, it...
Posted by Greg Laden at 6:15 PM • 11 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
Highly Allochthonous 11.05.2009
Eruptions 11.05.2009
Not Exactly Rocket Science 11.05.2009
Corpus Callosum 11.05.2009
Starts With a Bang 11.04.2009
