I love this list so much, I’d marry it if I wasn’t already married. ——————————————————————- 10 Reasons Why Gay Marriage is Wrong 01) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning. 02) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging [...]
I posted this on the Vanguard forums, but I figured I’d throw it up here since it has universal meaning. I think it depends on your definition of insanity, but people have been killing each other for centuries. Yeah, society is indifferent. How can you maintain compassion when your “tribe” is 6 billion people? The [...]
This is pretty cool; GmailFS is a program that allows you to use your Gmail account as a (slow) filesystem. What this means is that you get about 2gigs of space on a networked drive, available anywhere the internet is available. I’ve put up a few essential files that I wouldn’t want to lose (address [...]
In my personal attempt to spread the word about the hubris of the Kansas Board of Education’s decision concerning their science curriculum, I’ve created an icon for everyone to spread freely. Please use the icon to link to www.venganza.org or another site that encourages the Intelligent Kids theory of keeping the future students of the [...]
Despite the heroic efforts of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the Kansas Board of Education voted 6 to 4 in favor of approving a new approach to science: redefining it. “[T]he board rewrote the definition of science, so that it is no longer limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena.” This [...]
While writing for NaNoWriMo, I’ve become more familiar with Microsoft Word. In fact, I’ve only been using Office 2003 for a few months, and there are quite a few differences between it and the old Office 2000 I’d been using. One thing I’ve noticed is that some common words aren’t included in the dictionary: for [...]
320 people were arrested in Papua New Guinea; they were apparently “practicing sorcery and religious cults” (original article at Yahoo! News.) I’ve never heard of this before, but check this out: Police raided three villages Monday near the city of Lae on the north coast and arrested leaders of a “cargo cult” and their followers, [...]
So far I’m on track with regards to NaNoWriMo. I’m actually a few hundreds words ahead today, but I need to write even more to make up for the inevitable slacking I’ll be doing this weekend. The novel is progressing nicely. Our hero, Eric Tougard, has escaped from the FBI and is looking to pick [...]
Ok, I wrote an entry and then accidentally hit backspace. Anyway, it’s the first day of NaNoWriMo, and I’m going to get started here shortly. Current word count: 0!