An exception to the rule

Christopher Hitchens reminds us that once there were leftists who cared about something other than moral posturing.
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL, EDITOR, “THE NATION”: You know, Larry, the intensification of airstrikes has been going on for five months. Seymour Hersh has reported that in the “New Yorker.” But I think this is a sign of desperation, a [...]

Posted on March 19th, 2006 by pwyll
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physicist horndogs

An interesting article in Seed magazine concerning the recreational proclivities of physicists.

Posted on March 16th, 2006 by pwyll
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plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose

Greatbong blogs from India; his blog is called Random Thoughts of a Demented Mind. Here are some of his thoughts concerning the recent bombing in Varanasi. Do they seem familiar?
A series of bomb blasts in Varanasi. Hindu temples, railstations—the standard targets straight from the Jihadi desktop manual. Nothing new….well hold on there is.
Me. I am [...]

Posted on March 16th, 2006 by pwyll
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smashing windows

I have an old beater laptop at home, a ThinkPad running Windows 2000. I got it used, and have never known the admin password. I don’t use it much since I got my Powerbook. Today I was messing with it and did something stupid: I turned on user authentication and rebooted, which resulted in [...]

Posted on March 15th, 2006 by pwyll
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A sad day

Isaac Hayes, the voice of Chef, is quitting South Park. Reuters quotes Hayes as saying that
“There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs … begins”

South Park has been savagely satirizing religion for almost ten years. The time when satire [...]

Posted on March 13th, 2006 by pwyll
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credit card fun fact

Pretty interesting experiment. Someone tears up a credit card application just like the ones that come in the mail all the time. He then tapes it back together, fills it out, and requests the card be sent to a different address than the one originally on the form. Does he get a card? Take a [...]

Posted on March 11th, 2006 by pwyll
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