Dave Winer has set up a silly straw-man in his ongoing complaints about utilities like Greasemonkey and the Google Toolbar that let the user modify content that appears in their browser. Dave wonders if he can do the same thing with Cory Doctorow’s CC-licensed books. And the answer is that, of course he can. If…
March, 2005
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Take it from Powerline’s John Hinderaker — video never lies, Predictably, mainstream news outlets are trying to defuse the video’s impact. Like this Reuters report: “Schiavo Videotape Misleading, Experts Say”: Studies of people whose cerebral cortices are damaged in the way Schiavo’s is show that their eyes will respond to stimuli such as movement or…
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Another area where you see athesit/agnostic fundies are in university “diversity” efforts. Typically what is meant by diversity is actually just warmed-over conformity to a rigid political ideology. And, frequently, the religious need not apply (especially since most religions are the complete opposite of “diversity’s” sappy relativism — believing that some things are actually right…
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Back in September I mentioned the 40th Anniversary Spider-Man CDROM Collection — Amazing Fantasy #15 plus issues 1-500 of The Amazing Spider-Man all in one CD-ROM collection for about $40. I finally managed to pick up a copy recently. Basically, what we have are 501 PDF files containing relatively high-resolution scans of each comic book.…
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In the spirit of this discussion about atheism, this speech by Natalie Angier is a good example of the sort of nutcases who are representative of “mainstream atheism” (for lack of a better term. Angier is discussing how to raise “100 percent guaranteed god free children” and mentions her daughter, Katherine, Admittedly, Katherine is lucky.…
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Its interesting to read the crap that people are circulating in e-mails or repeating on Fox News about Terri Schiavo and then compare it to the ruling (PDF) by Judge Greer that affirmed Michael Schiavo’s right to remove his wife’s life support.
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If you’re going to write about something, you should take a minimal amount of time to get the facts right and avoid embarassing yourself. Dave Winer makes the bizarre claim that Re Terry Shiavo [sic], the woman whose brain is dead, Congress and the President should not have gotten involved. They made a mistake. Schiavo…
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John Robb complains that Netflix is on the skids and he no longer recommends the service to family and friends — though he doesn’t say which service superior to Netflix he does recommend. Netflix is clearly not as efficient as it was, say, 6 months ago, but its still an amazing value. In February, Netflix…
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Ron Battista posted reply to my Hannity/Silverman post. Battista runs an interesting blog, Suspension of Disbelief which has a tagline of “An Atheist Who Is Tired of Atheist Activists.” Can I get an amen to that? Anyway, Battista links to a number of atheist conservatives such as The Secular Republican, and there’s even a Yahoo!…
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This page hosts BitTorrent downloads of the Dr. Demento Show, including a Torrent for the latest show that tends to show up on the Wednesday or Thursday after the show is broadcast. I live in an area where the Dr. Demento Show hasn’t been broadcast in decades, and its nice to be able to download…