Archive for March, 2006

The side benefits of a stay at home mom

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

TheFactIs writer Mr. Dale O’Leary took on the subject of stay at home moms this last Monday.[1] It is well worth reading, and included here thanks to their generous copyright clause.

A new study by Bradford Wilcox and Steven Nock has discovered that, contrary to feminist theory, splitting work outside the home and the work of [...]

Death to the Christians

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

In the sort of case that you might have expected to see in Spain during the height of the Inquisition, an Afghan man is being prosecuted and faces the death penalty for converting to Christianity.[1] I saw this elsewhere yesterday, but lost the link in a browser crash. From what I gather, it appears [...]

earthquakes and sulfur

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

What in plate tectonics explains the characteristic sulfur fumes surrounding an earthquake?[1] This is a question I do not see being asked, much less answered.

Mr. Axel Bojanowski. “A Continent Splits Apart” Spiegel Online 2006-03-15. http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,405947,00.html

Sci-Fi personality

Friday, March 10th, 2006

You scored as Babylon 5 (Babylon 5). The universe is erupting into war and your government picks the wrong side. How much worse could things get? It doesn�t matter, because no matter what you have your friends and you�ll do the right thing. In the end that will be all that [...]

Gaim and “Open AIM”

Wednesday, March 8th, 2006

The other day, AOL “opened” up their AIM system, providing a Software Development Kit(SDK) at http://developer.aim.com/. Unfortunately, their SDK is far from open. Rather, it faces two significant restrictions: 1)it is limited in the number of connections a client using it can have to the server and 2)it cannot be used by a cross [...]

The circular logic of evolution

Wednesday, March 8th, 2006

The problem with looking at things as evidence for evolution is that you inevitably start from the assumption that evolution did occur. Thus “x is caused by y because y is the only reasonable evolutionary explanation of x,” and “evolution is true because y causes x.” If you read closely, you can see [...]

The necessity of fatherhood

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

Mr. Burt Prelutsky is incredibly harsh on the ladies.[1] His point, however poorly worded, is important, and his example (elephants) even more so. Simply put, men and women are equal in some respects (their inherent human dignity for example) but not in others. Rather, they are complementary. Thus the ideal family includes both [...]

gaim and autopackage

Monday, March 6th, 2006

Apparently I have been “entirely obstructive” with regards to gaim and autopackage.[1] I consider this a complement, as I tend to agree more with (Mr.?) Josselin Mouette’s post[2] than not. Mr. Hearn is essentially just a troll, sometimes amusing, sometimes annoying, but always just a troll.

Mr. Mike Hearn. “on the future of [...]

An Original Idea

Monday, March 6th, 2006

Have you ever considered the idea that a patriarchy might not always be a misogynistic society noteworthy primarily for male tyranny? Mr. Mark Adams refers to an article that argues just this in his latest post to “Friday Fax.”[1] According to him, this article is in a magazine called “Foreign Policy,” I would like [...]

Google Talk

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

This[1] made my day. Further consider that some of those are libgaim using clients. ☺

Mr. Rod Chavez. “Third Party Client Use of the Google Talk Service” Google Talkabout 2006-03-02. http://googletalk.blogspot.com/2006/03/third-party-client-use-of-google-talk.html