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Archive for July, 2008
Modified Ubuntu Human theme
Posted in Linux on 28 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Faith that the sun will rise
Posted in Philosophy on 26 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When engaging believers, one is often confronted with the one of the following claims: “you have faith that the sun will rise tomorrow,” or “you have faith that your chair will hold you up when you sit on it.” The purpose of these kinds of accusations is to equivocate between two levels of uncertainty, pulling [...]
One last shot at the Argument from Design
Posted in Philosophy, Religion on 25 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The most common argument for the existence of God these days seems to be the Argument from Design. Other arguments have come and gone, but the Design Argument remains popular. I want to finally put this argument to rest.
The argument has several variations, but it usually points out that in order for life to exist, [...]
The uniter
Posted in Politics on 24 July 2008 | 1 Comment »
In the photo, a German citizen holds a sign that reads, “Obama For Chancellor.” One hundred thousand people showed up to see him speak in Berlin. A video of the full speech can be viewed here.
When was the last time an American leader got a reception like that? And he’s not even president yet!
Breaking: PZ Myers desecrates Host, world does not end
Posted in Religion on 24 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So he did it. PZ Myers desecrated an allegedly blessed communion wafer by driving a rusty nail through it and pegging it to a few pages of the Koran and The God Delusion.
I think it’s the best blog post PZ has ever written. He takes the time to put the historical rantings and lunacy surrounding [...]
TechCrunchIT to build web tablet
Posted in Internet, Technology on 22 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Like many people, I was excited when I first heard about netbooks. Most of my computing experience revolves around the Internet, so a low-cost machine for that purpose would be useful to me, and it would lower the barrier to entry for many people who still aren’t on the net. Then I found out how [...]
Internet content filtering and the wisdom of crowds
Posted in Internet, Miscellaneous on 21 July 2008 | 1 Comment »
A self-described mother of five posted an article on Linux.com about a new content filtering add-on for Firefox called Glubble. Like NetNanny, Dansguardian, and all the rest, it relies on white lists and black lists of key words. This approach has its cumbersome limitations. My anonymous suggestion in the comments (which you should recognize after [...]
Cquestrate
Posted in Environment, Technology on 21 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Cquestrate is an “open source” inititiative to develop a system for the production of lime, which can be dumped into the ocean to absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide. The brains behind the project believe that atmospheric carbon dioxide can be reduced to pre-Industrial Revolution levels. That plan looks feasible in theory. I just wonder how much [...]
The benefits of piracy?
Posted in Technology on 20 July 2008 | 1 Comment »
Slashdot has an intersting post today:
The Economist has an article detailing how numerous companies are finding piracy’s silver lining: ‘Statistics about the traffic on file-sharing networks can be useful. They can reveal, for example, the countries where a new singer is most popular, even before his album has been released there. Having initially been reluctant [...]
What does this mean?
Posted in Internet, Politics on 20 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This screenshot was taken from http://www.johnmccain.com/supporters/ on 18 July. Kind of funny.
