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May 28, 2008
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May 17, 2008
May 13, 2008
Instant Rimshot
This is totally what every wise-cracker needs. In fact, I want one I can carry around. Awesome!
May 3, 2008
On yer soapboxx [sic]
Image via WikipediaYou wouldn’t think it was possible for someone to come up with an awesome new Web 2.0 site at this late stage, when we’re all abandoning Facebook and ditching Twitter and so on, but I’ve found it.
Soapboxxer has aspects of Twitter, and also aspects of Usenet. You collect points like it was a game, but you can’t do anything with them, like Technorati rank.
How it works is this:
Some soapboxxer dude posts an opinion. You get to agree or disagree. You may also post a comment in support of your position, and read comments by others. All this without signing up.
If you choose to sign up, for those all-important points (you can win a T-shirt if you have enough) it’s the simplest of procedures. You can follow other posters, and they can follow you.
Some of the opinions are a bit lame, such as Apple>Microsoft, but others get good reactions, or allow you to show off. There’s no threading, but some people appear to come back later and make new comments. Don’t know if I could be bothered with that. Anyway I’m up to 396 points just from goofing around. Definitely something to drop in on once in a while, for some light relief. I’m all about light relief, me.
May 1, 2008
Expelled exposed
Understanding this, the creationists took the morally fatal decision to campaign clandestinely. They overhauled creationism as “intelligent design,” roped in a handful of eccentric non-Christian cranks keen for a well-funded vehicle to help them push their own flat-earth theories, and set about presenting themselves to the public as “alternative science" engaged in a “controversy” with a closed-minded, reactionary “science establishment” fearful of new ideas. (Ignoring the fact that without a constant supply of new ideas, there would be nothing for scientists to do.) Nothing to do with religion at all!
I think this willful act of deception has corrupted creationism irredeemably. The old Biblical creationists were, in my opinion, wrong-headed, but they were mostly honest people. The “intelligent design” crowd lean more in the other direction. Hence the dishonesty and sheer nastiness, even down to plain bad manners, that you keep encountering in ID circles.
April 30, 2008
Voices
Image via WikipediaHere’s a message from a French lovebird.
This one’s from a German wing-commander.
This is one of the boys from the Old Country.
Great fun. The trick to write it so it sounds right. It’s harder than you think.
Ask this guy.
April 26, 2008
Conversation
So I met this guy, right, and I was like, What do you do? and he was like, I’m a plant geneticist specialising in salad greens and I’m all like, Dude get over yourself, I mean it’s hardly rocket science.
A punchline pictured yesterday
