Month: October 2005

  • Faith

    The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.Henry David Thoreau

  • Fun Stuff

    The 2005 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest shows awful first linesThe power of simplicity: how Stonehenge could have been built by *one man*Google logo maker – LogogleInteresting tool – convert any unitsEver wonder who does the voiceovers during movie trailers?Well, maybe it’s fun *now*, years later: top 10 dotcom flops.Very cool Adidas commercialBrian freeze and “The Final…

  • More Intelligent Design Proof

    Origin of the Novel Species Noodleous doubleous: Evidence for Intelligent DesignPenne Rigate will spontaneously insert itself into Rigatoni (order pasta) under liquid to gas transition conditions of H2O to create the previously unobserved species Noodleous doubleous.  The estimated probability of this spontaneous generation event is too low to be explained by thermodynamics and therefore apparently…

  • Corporations: “Not so nice citizens”

    My friend Bruce keeps harping about how evil the Walton empire (Wal*Mart, Sams Club) is and how it’s much better to shop at Costco based on an article he read in one of the Twin-Cities free weekly newspapers.  Now I’m not saying that he’s wrong, but I read a couple of things this week:Meet the…

  • Debbie Does Salad

    Harper’s Magazine has a very amusing article in the October issue, “Debbie Does Salad: The Food Network at the frontiers of pornography” by Frederick Kaufman; that compares the way the food channel treats their visuals to those in porn movies — and how similar they are.  Well worth the read.

  • Expectations

    You want me to succeed so much.Could you understand if I failed? …Could you love me if I failed?Sister Mary Paul

  • Ten Reasons Why Gay Marriage is Wrong

    Being gay is not natural.  Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior.  People may even wish to marry…