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Huckabee Takes Iowa, Unfortunately
2008-01-04 17:30:00 It’s official, Mike Huckabee wins the Iowa Republican caucus, and it’s also official that the jubilation surrounding his victory speech is reminiscent of a Benny Hinn sermon. One could easily get the feeling that Huckabee, during this speech, was preparing to lay hands on the crowd or begin speaking in tongues. Perhaps he ... More About: Elections , Ron Paul , Iowa Caucus
Under Construction
2008-01-03 04:16:00 I am currently working on some code for this site, so if it looks a bit weird at times, my apologies. I should have everything ironed out soon. More About: Construction , Under Construction
Unsolved Mysteries Will Be Back in ?08
2007-12-30 11:13:00 I am a bit late with the scoop, but it was announced a few months ago that Unsolved Mysteries , perhaps my all-time favorite show, will be moving to Spike TV to be re-aired beginning in the fall of 2008. Add To Bookmarking Sites More About: Back
Sad Cases of Police Insanity
2007-12-30 04:52:00 The police in Columbus , Ohio have really went over the top. It seems that they can find no better use of their resources than to plant a topless woman in a public park in order to have her lure men into exposing themselves when asked. And, of course, most heterosexual men would happily ... More About: Police , Insanity , Cases
AOL, Netscape?s Browser, And Open Source
2007-12-29 07:39:00 According to the news today, the Internet giant AOL has decided to stop supporting the Netscape browser. This will likely be the death blow to the Netscape browser platform, which is closely tied with the more popular Mozilla Firefox (which I use and you should too for a plethora of reasons). I still remember ... More About: Open Source , Open , Source , Open-Source
Why I Don?t Usually Vote, But Might This Year
2007-12-27 10:13:00 One often hears the phrase, “America is great because it is one of the few countries where one can vote.” This is true, of course, and it used to be a great thing — that is before the election process was perverted to an extent that it became next to meaningless for those of ... More About: Elections , Ron Paul , Election , Vote , Year
7 Reasons ?Psychics? Are Bogus
2007-12-25 00:36:00 My amazement never ends when observing the endless stream of credulity of the general populace in relation to fads, trends, and just overall nonsense. I suppose it’s true that most people are sheep — and there’s nothing inherently wrong with that — society wouldn’t function properly with too many cooks in the kitchen. ... More About: Psychics , Reasons
New Gun Legislation Concerning the Mentally Ill And Its Ramifications
2007-12-21 02:54:00 It was announced today that Congress passed a bill that would further enforce the illegality of the sale of firearms by licensed dealers to those adjudicated “mentally defective” by a court. The bill essentially makes it easier for the courts to share findings with the NICS background check system and requires states to share ... More About: Legislation , Mentally ill
Cleaning Up Yahoo! Search Widget XHTML Code
2007-12-20 02:55:00 I am not a CSS or HTML expert and don’t pretend to be, but I have learned a few useful tidbits during my short time blogging that might help others avoid the time I have spent attempting to make proprietary widget javascript code compliant with the XHTML standards specified by the W3C. If you ... More About: Yahoo , Widget , Cleaning , Search , Code
Woe to Those on Free Web Hosting Servers
2007-12-18 05:11:00 When I first created my blog, I signed up for a free hosting service called 007ihost. This service is presumably one of a million re-seller hosting services that just sign up a lot of people without providing the proper bandwidth nor caring how well the server functions. Whenever any account becomes problematic–that is ... More About: Hosting , Web Hosting , Servers , Free , Free Web Hosting
Live Free Or Die Hard: The Series is Dying Hard
2007-12-18 04:37:00 I am not a huge action movie type of guy, but I have always enjoyed Bruce Willis? role in the Die Hard series. Live Free or Die Hard was an overall good film for its genre, but did suffer slightly due to its fair share of unrealistic cliches, as well as its sometimes predictable ... More About: Series
11:14, Ten Minutes of Plot That Takes Ninety Minutes to Tell
2007-12-18 04:30:00 I picked this DVD up a few days ago from the ?gallery? section at my local video store, which implies that the film is not a new-release (it was filmed in 2003). What caught my attention was that Hillary Swank and Patrick Swayze were both in it, so I wondered how I had missed it ... More About: Movie Reviews , Minutes , Plot
Anti-Psychiatry?
2007-12-18 03:55:00 Everyone has a philosophy of life, whether through self-study or through the inculcation of some academic or moral body. Regardless, I take the Humean approach, as I have written about before, and believe this philosophy is solely based upon experience (nothing indelibly ingrained at birth). Psychiatrists are trained to believe, and rightfully so based on ... More About: Psychiatry , Anti
Is Science The Whole Story?
2007-12-18 03:45:00 Science has, in a way, became its own religion. Too many people herald it as the final word on any topic of debate. Anyone seen in a white lab coat is immediately designated, subconsciously, as a sort of demigod. It is rare that one can see a late night infomercial without mention that the product ... More About: Science , Story
A Few Words On Hume
2007-12-18 03:10:00 Let?s talk about Hume for a moment. His infamous epistemological wrecking ball essentially says that all human ideas are a result of sense perception; a true empiricist he was. According to him, the mind is like a pile of malleable clay at birth that is later molded and shaped by experience. He believes there are ... More About: Words , David Hume
My Favorite Story of Philosophy
2007-12-18 03:00:00 This is about Schopenhauer as told by the master historian of the philosophers - Will Durant. Schopenhauer had the most interesting life story of any philosopher I am aware of. This is from Durant’s famous book, and I skip around through his piece on Schopenhauer. Some parts are left out for brevity. This still ends ... More About: Philosophy , Story , Favorite
A Meager Drake Equation Calculation
More articles from this author:2007-12-18 02:47:00 The Drake equation is the foundation of SETI; it is used as a basis that apparently provides them the hope that their futile search will one day uncover some sort of ciphered message in a bottle from the stars. Can the equation?s variables be reliably figured? It?s been done before, but I will fill in ... More About: Quat 1, 2 |
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