Truth, Justice, and the American Way

Here are some nifty sites whose RSS feeds Ive added to my Google Portal:

eHow features daily how to article. Todays how to stories include How to Deal With an Overbearing Mother and How to Select Art for Your Home

Engadget my source for all gadget-related news. For more general (and more [...]

Great article on mises.org: The Myth of the Cell-Phone Addiction.

Since this blog is used primarily for musings of philosophical and political matters, I have started a new blog for technical topics in particular, .Net web development. My first post is up, so if youre into that sort of stuff, check out Smart Design

Tom Lahti, the owner of the #Objectivist IRC channel where I can be frequently found lurking just started a blog. Check out Focus Foundry’s first post: “Sex!”

John at TexasBestGrok points out the hypocrisy of supporting the sanctity of marriage while denying Michael Schiavo the power to speak on behalf of his wife.

OK, ok, I really dont give a damn about the Schiavo charade, I just wanted to plug TexasBestGrok, whose author is a fellow Texan who shares my love of Heinlein, [...]

I have a new entry to add to my list of essential software: Googles Picasa2, an image management tool for all your digital photos. Googles innovations in online services and software have always impressed me in the past, and their latest release is no exception.

Picasa doesnt introduce any revolutionary new features, but [...]

Check out the Showtime show “Bullshit!” Now in its second season, this show by ?confirmed skeptics and pro-science atheists? Penn and Teller makes beefsteak out of sacred cows. Be sure to check out the list of topics they debunk the hell out of.

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I’m too lazy to write a blog today, so go read someone else’s rantings:
Fixed Earth.com: “The earth is not moving: over 400 years of deception exposed! The Bible told the truth all along! ”
Allah is in Da House: “Your Jew mind-reading powers are strong indeed, tasty infidel.”

Cool shirts from Cox and Forkum: Bring ‘Em On, Allah

Christian Right Lobbies To Overturn Second Law Of Thermodynamics

I’m playing with the VB.Net-based DotNetNuke portal. Although its very new, the superiority of the .Net platform is allowing it to rapidly catch up with mature LAMP-based portals. It really gives a whole new meaning to RAD development. (Btw, did you know that you can run .Net on Linux/Apache using Mono and [...]

Cult! Fear and loathing in College Station

Check out the interview of the Cox and Forkum pair at CapMag. If you haven’t seen their comics yet, do so. Now.

An account of a vacation to the other “socialist paradise.”

Man loses papers, stuck in French airport since 1988.

How do courts swear in atheists?

Child actor Gary Coleman competes with Arnold for govenor of the People State of CA

And to stir up some debate, my post Objectivists Need A Church, Too

I’ve added over 140 paintings to my art gallery and fixed all the bugs that were plaguing it. Take a look!
Note: I’m looking for someone knowlegeable to add brief descriptions to the main categories (sorted by period) and for more good Art-Deco or stylistic artists.

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I can’t believe I haven’t head about this, but apparently, in 1996, Alan Sokal, a physicist at NYU, wrote an article titled “Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity”, in which he parodied cultural studies, postmodernism, and so on, writing a paper full of gibberish using dozens of Marxist, Socialist and other [...]