Participating in the Grand Democratic Experiment, one post at a time.
Forget thieves and blackhats out there pilfering your SSNs, credit card numbers, and all that. Put your fear in the very same institutions that legitimately ask for, need, and SSL your info. A couple years ago I’d had a problem with a particular bank. We’d signed up through MS Money to auto-sync the account details. […]
Via Boing Boing: the tale of Howard Dully, a California man who makes his living as a bus driver who had a transorbital lobotomy at age 12 in 1966. He describes how he’s always felt like he’s been missing something. And maybe he has. Kind of a gut-wrenching tale. And makes you think about what […]
A nice round-up of the WSIS news/happenings over at Sampo.
Classical/flamenco guitarist Ottmar Liebert is down with the Creative Commons. He uses the Creative Commons Sampling Plus license to make large amounts of his music available to the public for remixing. A and I have a couple of his CDs. He’s a great guitarist and worth a listen. And worth the remix apparently, too.
This makes me so happy. Via Wired News: Monsignor Gianfranco Basti, director of … Science, Theology and Ontological Quest, reaffirmed John Paul’s 1996 statement that evolution was “more than just a hypothesis.” “A hypothesis asks whether something is true or false,” he said. “(Evolution) is more than a hypothesis because there is proof.”
Creative Commons bit on a new record label called Unlocked Groove that’s apparently releasing vinyl under a CC license. Bad ass!
Via Boing^2: currently playing: A:xus “When I Fall In Love (Stryker’s Acid dub)”
Neat new fiction on Futurismic: “Changing The Tune“ Neat article on Kuro5hin: “Which is the Better Classroom?” – – re: the home-school debate Fun National Geographic News article: “The World in a Glass: Six Drinks That Changed History“ currently playing: white noise in my skull
Via SkepticReport.com: Bob Riggins’ Things Creationists Hate My favorite part (so far): [The Founding Fathers] make creationists appear, shall we say, less than intellectually competent when they toss out a howler like, “George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were creationists!” It makes one want to knock on their heads and call out derisively, “Helllooo! Anybody home […]
file under: essential viewing More like “required viewing”, Gunner Palace is a documentary about the U.S. Army in Baghdad during 2003-2004 – – following the invasion (“bomb it”) and during the occupation (“build it”). What you get is the perspective of those U.S. Army soldiers during this period. Interesting the way that morale flakes and […]