Archive for July, 2006
« Previous EntriesThe Gospel of Tux
Thursday, July 27th, 2006For your Thursday amusement, I present to you the Gospel of Tux unearthed. Enjoy!
Contra Tolerance
Thursday, July 27th, 2006Religion is a good to be embraced and defended–not an evil to be put up with. No one speaks of tolerating chocolate pudding or a spring walk in the park. By speaking of religious “tolerance,” we make religion an unfortunate fact to be borne–like noisy neighbors and crowded buses–not a blessing to be celebrated.[1]
Rev. Thomas [...]
“What Keeps Me Up at Night” (reprint)
Thursday, July 27th, 2006There are times when the text I’m presented with clearly says it all, and could not be improved upon by my feeble efforts. Fortunately, when that happens with The Fact Is, I can make use of their generous copyright grant. For your edification, I present to you Mr. Jospeh Capizzi’s “What Keeps [...]
Just a second, let me ssh to my robot…
Friday, July 21st, 2006I would guess that Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro uses a web interface or a custom appication, and not ssh, to control his robot, but the idea holds true regardless.[1] For what he has done is rather disturbing: he has created a robot to take his place, to take telecoferencing to a whole new level. [...]
Having things to steal causes people to steal them
Thursday, July 20th, 2006“I share the concerns of many people that the numbers of violent offences recorded by the police have increased,” [British Home Secretary John] Reid said in an e-mail yesterday. “This is largely driven by a rise in the numbers of young people carrying expensive goods such as mobile phones and MP3 players.”[1]
I nearly missed [...]
Localizers!
Tuesday, July 18th, 2006HP has come out with a new chip that might have been designed to foster paranoia.[1] This new chip, the size of a grain of rice, is powered by induction and contains a wireless antenna for data exchange. This just screams localizer in a Vernor Vinge[2] style. For while this chip is [...]
Israel & the United States
Tuesday, July 18th, 2006Once again, I find myself agreeing with Mr. Pat Buchanan. Today, he is asking what in the world we are doing supporting Isreal.[1] In particular, he references the fact that part of Isreal’s approach to the Palestinian election of Hamas for its government includes destroying power plants. The route they [...]
Some lighter text
Thursday, July 13th, 2006Damian’s[1] recent facelift prompted me to overcome ennui and lighten the text on my own site. It occurred to me over a month ago that it was hard to read in a brightly light room or in the presence of glare on the monitor. I ought to push the change out to the [...]
A quote of the day
Thursday, July 13th, 2006“He thought he was capable, at the most, of saying simple things in complicated ways.” — Laurens van der Post, A Story Like The Wind ISBN 0-15-685261-6
Matter Waves?
Wednesday, July 12th, 2006Yay for variation in the “constants” of science!![1] On a more sober note, it is apparently by no means sure that thse results are all that repeatable, and thus trustable. Still, it is nice to see this sort of thing questioned. ☺
Mr. Michael Schirber. “Scientists question fundamental [...]
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