Ben Stein on science:
Stein: When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers [i.e. biologist P.Z. Myers], talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to [...]
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Now, Rev. Wright says that criticism is an attack on the “black church”. From all the vile spewage we’ve seen from him, I’d say that criticism is roundly deserved. Being black doesn’t excuse stupid, racist garbage.
But then, what do I know? I’m just an Typical White Person.
A test of Wordpress 2.5’s new Gallery functionality, using my favorite subject as of late: Team Fortress 2 rendering glitches!
Sigh.
Stuff gets broken.
Trying to upload my latest and greatest TF2 glitch pics results in an “HTTP error”:
OK so far…
Bummer, denied! Thank you so much, asshole.
By the way, I had to upload these screenshots by hand with an FTP client.
Update: It looks like the problem was with the Bad Behavior plugin. Upgrading it to the latest [...]
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That’s how one of Instapundit’s readers wryly describes last weekend’s violence in Chicago. Since guns are illegal in that city, nothing bad could ever happen there. Of course, as Rachel says: Strangely, even when things are illegal, people still do them.
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The Netgear WGR614 saga continues. I discovered yesterday that the router’s power adapter was putting out 16 volts; it’s only supposed to put out 12 volts. A ha! The source of my troubles? Heat seems to be the major issue: when it gets hot, it stops working correctly. Of course, being driven at 16v instead [...]
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The land to the left of the HOLLYWOOD sign is for sale:
An investment group that owns 138 sage-covered acres above and to the left of the 45-foot-high, steel-and-concrete H put the land up for sale last month for $22 million.
This is obviously a golden opportunity for someone to, you know, add a few more letters [...]
A week ago, it was still cool enough here that I was wearing sweaters and using the space heater in the morning.
Today, as I write this, it is 89°. The warm season is officially upon us.
“Political correctness is just tyranny with manners.” — Charlton Heston
I’ve been watching Ken Burn’s The War. In the episode “FUBAR”, the film mentions Thanksgiving Day in Europe, 1944. After the disaster of Market Garden and other setbacks made it clear that the war was not going to end by Christmas, Eisenhower ordered that every GI in Europe get a turkey dinner for Thanksgiving to [...]
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