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I get email
Posted by PZ Myers on January 19, 2012 There is a shifting pattern of spam email that I get. A while back, it was practically non-stop gay porn; I commented on this a while back, and laughed it off, which apparently annoyed the people who’d been sending it to me. I think they expected me to be stressed and conflicted and angry at…
First s’mores, next thing you know they’ll be using AK-47s
Posted by PZ Myers on January 9, 2012 Could be trouble: the other apes are learning how to make fire, and you know where that ended up with us. (via sci-ence) (Also on FtB)
Mommy, why is that man covered with penises?
Posted by PZ Myers on December 7, 2011 Have fun and go visit the Missing Universe Museum online. You will feel as if you are finally getting close to the bottom of human stupidity. Every page promotes this argument: If you don’t believe God created all living things, male and female, in 6 days…. How many millions of years was it between the…
I, for one, welcome our future squishily pneumatic robot overlords
Posted by PZ Myers on November 29, 2011 These canny engineers have at last realized that the proper model for robots is biological, and have built a soft-bodied walking robot. The future belongs to inflatable technology! Have no fear. They’re mostly benign. (Also on FtB)
Am I on a slippery slope?
Posted by PZ Myers on November 21, 2011 Inspired by Skepticon, several of the speakers at that event have been redrawn as ponies. Is the next step…furries? (Also on FtB)
See? Sometimes cute things can cheer me up. Oooh, and I wanna give you all the souls you want, you adorable little slime-beast. (Also on FtB)
Boring old Lorem Ipsum
Posted by PZ Myers on September 22, 2011 You’ve probably seen that placeholder text for websites in progress — piles of nonsense Latin that’s just there to represent sample text. Now there’s something better: the Samuel L. Ipsum generator. Next time you’re designing a website for a church or pre-school, use this program to build up some random text for your demonstration. (via…
I get email
Posted by PZ Myers on September 21, 2011 I’m not going to post this email I received, simply because it is insanely long, 15,000 words of random caps and peculiar color changes. Just to give you a taste, this is the subject line: Subject: SCIENCE, AND THEOLOGY {{ Cogent Word for the 100′s of new ears in Science and theology we contacted/called last…
Remember: it’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day. I have to give a lecture on the evolution of the nervous system today. I don’t think I can do it with a plethora of “arrr’s” unless I drink a lot of rum first. (Also on FtB)
It’s what I’d expect of Scotland
Posted by PZ Myers on September 12, 2011 It’s a new beer with some unusual characteristics. Only 12 bottles were brewed, and they sold for $765 each. It had an alcohol content of 55%. Can you even get that without distillation? Does it even count as a beer? Does it taste like beer? It comes in a unique bottle wrapped in preserved roadkill.…