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razib | June 23, 2007Agnostic says that Lonelygirl15 reincarnated as AngryLittleGirl. I haven't watched any of the other clips, but I found this shit hilarious:
She's like a somewhat less ugly version of real-life Jacqueline Passey. Interestingly, the actress playing AngryLittleGirl is convincing due to her higher level of biological masculinity. She has a fairly masculine jaw-line for an 18 y.o. girl, and just watch An American Girl, where she makes her hands visible throughout. If you pause this clip at 4:27, you can see that on her right hand her ring finger is noticeably longer than her index finger. This…
revere | June 23, 2007A belated welcome to the progressive blogosphere (and our blogroll) to the Angry Toxicologist but still a very sincere one. The AT is appropriately angry about most of the same things that make us angry. TAT is a toxicologist. We do environmental epidemiology -- in the words of epidemiologist Richard Clapp, that's toxicology where you let the animals out of their cages. So we are in the same line of work, although for a change of pace we blog mostly about infectious disease. From the Left. That's what happens when you're angry.
Welcome to the public health blogosphere, AT. Whoever you are.
razib | June 17, 2007Matt at the Behavorial Ecology Blog is asking for the most perverted queries. His is: "cats as sexual partners." Here are some which have raised my eyebrows:
kindred porno
14-17 age porn
hermaphrodite porn trailers
free animal porn bg
kids.porn
monkey and human porn
free young transexuel porn
feces+porn
-gay+felching+free+porn+pics (I don't know what "felching" is, but I assume it is disgusting?)
byzantine+porno (this is just weird)
buck tooth porn
mongolian rape sequence+genghis khan+porn
pygmy porn women
camel porno
darwin's porno
Just a sample.
(just use th keyword filter in google…
razib | June 15, 2007So like many people I am nearly fed up with Firefox. I really don't have that many plugins, but the freezes and crashes are just too frequent. For the next week I'll be trying out Safari. Anyone have experiences to relate? (on Windows)
razib | June 15, 2007As you might guess, my site is one of the sources of content. If you're reading this post at New York Articles rather than at my actual site, you are partaking of a suboptimal experience.
I'm not going to give you the URL for the lesser, because there is no value-added to speak of, unless you count the pennies that come in to the leech that grabs the RSS and sells the Google Ads.
Does such a site do anything to improve an already crowded blogosphere? Does anyone treat a sloppy feed aggregating site of this sort as a regular destination (or really, as anything but an accidental destination)?…
razib | June 4, 2007Some of you may have heard about Eric Altermann's altercation with the law (sorry, had to say that!). This is what caught my attention:
A guy came over and asked me who I was and I told him I was a colmunist for The Nation and he told me I had to leave. I thought he was kind of rude, so I asked him his name, thinking it might go into Altercation the next day....
One of the realities of life is having to deal with "officials," whether it be faceless bureaucrats, customer "service" representatives, or the police. In many situations there is a major power imbalance between said officials and…
razib | June 2, 2007My piece, Why the gods will not be defeated, has generated some response on the internet. Reihan Salam & Ross Douthat both have some thoughts, while fellow ScienceBlogger Jonah Leher offered some kind words. Also, just an FYI, I've been asked to turn the post into an extended essay elsewhere. Wait a few weeks for the notification when it goes up. Regular readers won't find anything new, but it will have all of my baroque ideas cheek by jowl in one sequence of text, we'll see how it works out....
PS: Some have taken to criticizing the specific numbers in some of the surveys. Sample…
razib | May 28, 2007Chris has a long response to Paul Bloom's recent argument about intuition & science & education. You can also see Jake Young's critical take here, as Chris responds in part to some of his issues with the piece.
razib | May 26, 2007I've been blogging since spring of 2002. I've seen 'em come and go. Interestingly, I've noted that three blogs I once followed have sprung back to life after going silent relatively early on in the blosphere's evolution, Ideofact, Rachel Lucas and Brink Lindsey. It's all rather strange to see people pop up into the cyberworld after such a hiatus, I've certainly evolved, but these individuals (less so Brink) have engaged in saltation, if you remember their previous morphs at least.
razib | May 26, 2007Want to make analytic philosophy papers the exemplars of lively and clear prose? Just read some articles from The Harvard Law Review. My own personal experience with lawyers is that most of them know the law as well as a heating & cooling engineer knows the temperature systems of the typical modern building. That being said, heating & cooling engineers don't presume to have insights into the human condition, while many smart lawyers seem to think they do have such general knowledge. Lawyers are the potentates of process, and I give them their due, but they should leave…
revere | May 23, 2007A new experiment in flu communications was noted yesterday by my wiki partner and fellow blogger (The Next Hurrah) DemFromCT over at the mega-blog, DailyKos:
Recognizing the need for people to take pandemic flu preparations more seriously, and recognizing that blogging is a powerful and effective two-way communications tool, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt is hosting a Pandemic Flu Leadership Conference in Washington DC on June 13, to which I've been invited (based on work done at Flu Wiki and here). And as part of the effort to reach as many people as possible, a blog has…
razib | May 22, 2007I know most readers have/watch TV, so the Geico Neandertal commercials aren't new to them. But I thought I'd post this on the chance that some haven't seen them, because I really like this one....
razib | May 22, 2007I was having coffee with a friend of mine. She's an attractive young woman who was once a professional model of some promise (she's not single guys, no emails inquiring please!). I simply note this fact to frame the following anecdote appropriately and make clear how incongruous it was. I was explaining to her the ethical issues involved in selective abortion of fetuses who will have Down Syndrome. When I mentioned Down Syndrome a pall seemed to hang over the conversation, and there was a moment of silence. She looked at me very gravely and stated, "I was once tormented and picked on by…