I've Got a Hit!
I work up this morning with a surefire Hollywood seller: Flashdances with Wolves. Think about it:...
Jul 1st
Guilt the Socialists
I met three socialists selling “radical” literature in front of Starbucks, proselytizing...
Jul 1st
Sam Harris' a priori Mysticism
Sam Harris writes in The End of Faith on the poverty of Western orthopraxy: “In fact, the...
Jul 1st
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Jul 1st
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Mika Brzezinski of MNSBC rips Paris report (via cc6809)
Jun 28th
La Moustache
If you like subtle psychological thrillers, I highly recommend the French film La Moustache. The...
Jun 28th
"Tom Glavine's march to 300 career wins...
Jun 28th
Ya Gotta Play Hurt
Or so my pappy used to say. (via Crash Landing)
Jun 27th
Ann Coulter...
really looks like a ghoul from a horror movie, doesn’t she? (via Crash Landing)
Jun 27th
An Economist Views Bugs
I recall my friend Larry White talking about the bug zappers people put in their backyards:...
Jun 27th
The British? Who Are They?
Looking at this book, which I am scheduled to review, I found: “Yet, keep in mind just how...
Jun 27th
Aargh!
Reading this article, I found: “And then there is the related set of concerns: the emerging...
Jun 27th
Dat's Fast
New IBM machine can hold over 800,000 processors. (via Crash Landing)
Jun 27th
Another Aspect of the Student Loan...
In this one I talk about why kickbacks aren’t a problem in private business, plus I use a...
Jun 27th
Dispatches From the Hyperlocal Future
Jun 27th
If You See Something...
Say Something. Signs to this effect are all over the NYC subway. The always give me the urge to run...
Jun 26th
The Historicity of Jesus
I really don’t understand anti-Christians who try to argue “Jesus never existed.”...
Jun 26th
Practical, Marginal Revolution
It’s commonly aphorized that socialism is good in theory, but not in practice. Socialists...
Jun 26th
Language Bits
1) I’ve been re-reading old detective novels from a box I just unearthed. The characters are...
Jun 26th
"A Dialog About a Dialog"
A: Absorbed in our discussion of immortality, we had let night fall without lighting the lamp, and...
Jun 24th
Random thoughts
The remembrance of the dead is an important component of almost all cultures, but despite the...
Jun 24th
What fearful asymmetry could mine eye...
“I have spent my entire life studying randomness, practicing randomness, hating randomness....
Jun 24th
Science: Advancing by Hardcore...
One of my favorite history of science stories was told to me by John Milton — no, not that...
Jun 23rd
I Did Not Know That!
One-quarter of the mammal species in the world are a type of bat. (via Crash Landing)
Jun 23rd
The (Il)logic of Harry Potter
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy the Harry Potter books and movies. But I was watching one with my...
Jun 23rd
Does Cutting Out the Private Sector...
I say no. (via Crash Landing)
Jun 23rd
“OJ Book Leaked”
— Threat Level - Wired Blogs
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Jun 22nd
Silicon Knights - Video Games: The Eighth Art...
Jun 22nd
Like a porcelain teapot that can’t...
In recent years, computer programmers having failed to invent HAL, despite have created some pretty...
Jun 22nd
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Jun 21st
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“Guantanamo” - Excerpt of an Iranian TV Drama (via ForeignPolicyMag)
Jun 21st
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Jun 21st
And All She Wants to Do Is Dance (and...
Yet another post in my series on song lyrics… I have nothing too profound this time, except...
Jun 20th
TB Case
Great article by Bob “Too Lazy to Blog It Himself” Murphy. (via Crash Landing)
Jun 20th
More Game Theory
Here’s what I mean: A game theorist can set up a game and say “If a real situation...
Jun 19th
David Bowie
Lost in space. (via Crash Landing)
Jun 19th
Stay!
My daughter was telling our dog “Stay!” as she walked past me tonight. I jokingly said,...
Jun 18th
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An Islamic Exorcism - Warning Disturbing to Some - (via VilaWolf)
they did it for the lulz
Jun 18th
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June 17, Czech artistic group ZTOHOVEN (a pun meaning „out of it” when read or hundred shits...
Jun 18th
Tough Rules
At DiMattina Playground in Brooklyn, there are rules posted for the baseball field, including:...
Jun 17th
Subjective universalism
One of the more irritating questions I’ve been confronted with in the discussions I’ve had in my...
Jun 16th
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Richard Dawkins on our bizarre universe (Ted Talks) (via Google Video)
Jun 16th
Assumptions in Science
Over at Unqualified Offerings, Thoreau writes: “In a continuing effort to highlight the way...
Jun 16th
Singing in the Shower
When professional vocalists do this, do they sound much better than normal? (BTW a voice coach told...
Jun 15th
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Jordan Collier Dispatch #6 (via people4jordan)
“The pivotal moments in human history are not...
Jun 15th
How We Does Race Relations in Brooklyn
I went to visit my friend Tommy at Cody’s up on Court St. I told him I’d be running a...
Jun 14th
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Jun 14th
Back for Your Reading Pleasure
The Libertarian Alliance posts my history of political thought talk, which I posted here a while...
Jun 14th
The Meaning of Game Theory
This article got me thinking about game theory a bit. In particular, when the author writes,...
Jun 14th
Ahistorical Physics
I recently corresponded with a physicist who had posted, on his web site, what he saw as two invalid...
Jun 13th
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Gore criticizes Bush for ignoring Iraq’s ties to terrorism in 1992. Ahh, the endless hypocrisy...
Jun 13th
Collingwood on Materialism
“Materialism as the heir of Reiassance pantheism continued to live and thrive not only in the...
Jun 12th
Worst Sentence Ever Candidate
“Kettle ponds are sites where blocks of ice broke off from the ice sheet and were buried as...
Jun 12th
Politicizing Abortion
My stance on abortion wavers just about every day. I seriously don’t think the government...
Jun 9th
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Hitler’s Ultimate Downfall (Digg, link on right) (via Bowlch)
Jun 7th
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Woman hits reporter with bag (via KamusBrazil)
Jun 7th
Turkish Troops Attack Iraqi Kurdistan
Jun 7th
Hawt Azn Chicks
Jun 7th
Online Video: Koda Kumi - Juicy PV | Veoh...
Jun 7th
People's Intelligence Damaged...
by exposure to total horseshit studies. “However, she admitted the research team had no...
Jun 6th
Cute Law Facts
Apparently, it was a crime in ancient Rome to “use magic to move crops.” (And there were...
Jun 4th
Passing Bidden
Walking down Rt. 6 near my house, I saw a sign reading “Passing Bidden.” I looked...
Jun 4th
Outsourcing lawn service?
From an e-mail I wrote a few days ago (why let material go to waste?): I can understand a...
Jun 3rd