This is stupid. People have an a right to believe what they want, even if they are too stupid to evaluate evidence ( Read more... )

Since I've made this recipe like four times this winter, I figure I should probably share it ( Read more... )

I feel like I've said before that I cannot judge a work of fiction until I've finished reading it.

This is probably not actually true. Like, I'm pretty sure that I'm going to be happy with Ra, when it finishes. I've read all of Hughes's prior work, and I know that his sense of what is satisfying lines up well with mine. Plus it's sort of made ( Read more... )

Cory Doctorow, at one point decided to write a
series of stories with the same names as famous science fiction stories. I was thinking about this recently in the context of PRISM ( Read more... )

One:

Time periods: When searching, the time periods now have their upper bound excluded. It will allow us to have a cleaner or more correct dataset. API doc. Credits go to @NovalisDMT for spotting the problem.

Well, actually, thanks to Dijkstra. What's really crazy is this: what if I hadn't happened to read that article? Then would I be doing ( Read more... )

Y'all have been following XKCD's "Time", right? If not: Over three weeks ago, XKCD's comic was an image of two people sitting on the ground. The mouseover text was, "wait for it". Every half hour, the image updated (the updates have since slowed to 1 per hour). It is still going. over 650 frames later. Here's a site that's been tracking it. It ( Read more... )

As requested, commentary on another moron doing the right thing for the wrong (stated) reasons"Simply put, if The Lord made homosexuals as well as heterosexuals, why should I discriminate against their civil marriage? I shouldn't, and I won't ( Read more... )

sandmantv and thekinginyellow have posted about Rob Portman, but I don't think either of them has it quite right.

sandmantv says "I think there’s too much emphasis on the personal dimension of this." Then he follows up with "Yes this is their personal journey and lots of people have their eyes widened regarding tolerance because of how it touched them or someone close to them. ( Read more... )

Context: I dropped out of college after two years, and haven't taken a college course since ( Read more... )

"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, & breeds reptiles of the mind." - William Blake.

I want these motherfucking snakes off this motherfucking brain.

This entry was originally posted at http://novalis.dreamwidth.org/171471.html. There are
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