gregladen | November 20, 2009All marriage was accidentally banned in Texas when Texas banned "Gay Marriage." What a bunch of morons.
Details here.
gregladen | November 19, 2009Send an email to yourself in the future! This service allows you to send an email to yourself in the future. This is a little like an assignment my daughter was given this year in school: A letter to yourself that you are then forced to open and read when you are a Senior. Only this is an email and it is probably OK to just delete it if you want to.
click here
gregladen | November 19, 2009
An Icelandic firm that offers private DNA testing to customers has filed for bankruptcy in the U.S., raising privacy concerns about the fate of customer DNA samples and records, according to the Times of London.
DeCODE Genetics, a genetics research firm, began offering personalized DNA testing through its deCODEme website two years ago. A customer mails in a sample taken from the inside of his cheek, and the service calculates the subject's genetic risk for disease -- cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's, heart disease.
Story here
gregladen | November 19, 2009... overflowing from the room with the stage. Every chair in the bar area had one or two people standing on it, as did most of the tables. ... models moved a couple at a time out onto the open stage, walked around and sometimes did things to make the crowd laugh or scream ...
Read on ...
gregladen | November 19, 2009According to an Australian Australian Senator Nick Zenophon.
Senator Xenophon [raised] allegations of widespread criminal conduct within the church, saying he had received letters from former followers detailing claims of abuse, false imprisonment and forced abortion.
He says he has passed on the letters to the police and is calling for a Senate inquiry into the religion and its tax-exempt status.
"I am deeply concerned about this organisation and the devastating impact it can have on its followers," he told the Senate.
A spokeswoman for the church, Virginia Stewart, says she is shocked to…
gregladen | November 18, 2009There are not going to be too many more of these:
Space shuttle Atlantis and its six-member crew began an 11-day delivery flight to the International Space Station on Monday with a 2:28 p.m. EST launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The shuttle will transport spare hardware to the outpost and return a station crew member who spent more than two months in space.
Atlantis is carrying about 30,000 pounds of replacement parts for systems that provide power to the station, keep it from overheating, and maintain a proper orientation in space. The large equipment can best be…
gregladen | November 18, 2009I was sitting at a very hip bar in a very hip joint the other day speaking with a couple of very hip people. Then one of the hipsters asked the bartender for a couple of "PBR's"
"PBR," I thought. That must be the hip new drink. And silly me, I'm sitting here drinking my very unhip oatmeal stout.
Then the bartender handed over two tallboy cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon and I almost choked on the stout.
But apparently it is true. Pabst is hip. At least, according to the recently issued Hipster Bingo Card.
gregladen | November 18, 2009Do not try this at home unless you are a certified physics teacher. Try not to think about what all the crap is in this guy's microwave. And do wear goggles. The really interesting part is after five minutes. That's where the science starts.
gregladen | November 18, 2009You probably heard about Michele Bachmann's "Whites of their eyes" event last week, where she urged reporters to arrive en masse at the US Capitol, to swarm the halls and glare at their congresspersons in the eyes until the blinked. Or voted against health care insurance reform. Or something.
The rally, which consisted of Bachmann and a number of other wingnuts displaying absurd theatrics and civic stupidity was technically called a press conference, and apparently members of congress can do that ... they can simply go out to the public space and have even rather elaborate press…
gregladen | November 18, 2009Cooking turkey is actually kind of a dumb idea. Most people don't ever cook turkey. Turkey is like chicken ... it's a domestic bird that is familiar to all Americans ... but it is very difficult to cook in a way that does not ruin it. So once a year, you cook this huge bird and try not to ruin it, and invite everybody that is important to you over to see if it worked.
As a result of this the truth many people have never had good turkey. They've only had ruined turkey. And for each of these people, what they think turkey tastes like is unique to the particular way their family's turkey…
gregladen | November 18, 2009Wow. My internet connection was down for a few hours. Did I miss anything?
gregladen | November 17, 2009I'm writing an academic article and I have writers block. Lets see ... what shall I do....
Need a sentence for your latest article? Write one here! Just select a word or phrase from each drop-down list and click "Write It."
So I did that and came up with:
The eroticization of the gaze recapitulates the engendering of power/knowledge.
Perfect! Never mind that the paper is about mole rats. This is perfect..
Try it yourself.
Hat tip Digital Rabbit
gregladen | November 17, 2009From an "unknown greater good" to "evil is necessary to prove God's existence" it's all a lot of hooey and post hoc justification.
August Berkshire has a new version of his list, here.
gregladen | November 17, 2009The first part of this documentary, including the preface and the first several minutes of the main body of the work, should be deleted. The writers and producers who put that part together should be captured, gutted, eviscerated, and their dried and salted remains staked to the front entrance of the Public Broadcasting System as a reminder for other writers and producers. Why? Here's why:
What was said was pure teleology. At some point, sixty million years ago, the path that human evolution would follow was set. Some of the ancestral forms stayed on the path to us, others did not and…
gregladen | November 17, 2009I never realized that George Bush had such a bald-fetish until I saw THIS.
Follow the money
Fully automatic cute fuzzy thing.