May 08, 2004
"Bullshit!" on Showtime
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.
April 24, 2004
Random Quotes from the Greeedy Capitalist
This is an update:
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October 10, 2003
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."
October 07, 2003
September 17, 2003
September 14, 2003
.Net rocks!
I'm playing with the VB.Net-based DotNetNuke portal. Although it�s 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 the ModMono Apache module?) I�ve already set up a blog, and I�d like to move my homepage to .NetNuke, if only I could find a .Net host. Anyone interested in getting a free Unix account in exchange for some space on a .Net-enabled host? I'd host it on my pc if Cox hadn't blocked port 80...I'll be damned if they make me upgrade to a commercial account just to run a web server. Speaking of which, the value/quality of the service Cox offers is ridiculous, but they have a local monopoly on cable Internet service, and I�ve disabled my landline, so I can�t get DSL. Incidentaly, I just found I get free web hosting at http://cox-internet.com/david, but Cox offers no scripting support, making my account rather useless.
Anyway, you should seriously consider using .Net for your web/GUI/Unix development needs. I�m going to do just that�right after I cash my check from the MS marketing dept.
September 11, 2003
August 31, 2003
Cox and Forkum interview
Check out the interview of the Cox and Forkum pair at CapMag. If you haven't seen their comics yet, do so. Now.
August 07, 2003
Some random sites:
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
August 03, 2003
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.
April 01, 2003
Blogshares: The Blogger Stock Exchage!
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October 28, 2002
Marxism and Quantum Physics
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 "Post-Modern" writers. The hillarious thing is that he actually got the paper published in a peer-review journal, "Social Text" -- which as you might imagine, is full of such postmodern crap.
What's really hilarious is that the paper is full of complete gibberish, yet makes fun of all the "post-modern" crap that has been popularized in academia, and shows how "a liberatory postmodern science" leads to blatant nonsense when subjectivism is applied to scientific knowledge.