September 2005

Charles Miller says… "The most interesting thing to me about Intelligent Design, though, is that if you look too closely at it, it’s an argument against the Christian God. If you look at the human body, which was supposedly designed in totem rather than evolved, there are so many bits that are useless, inefficient or even counterproductive that we hardly fit into the ideal of being constructed out of clay, so to speak, by a perfect and beneficent God."

ROLLYO lets you create a personalized seearch engine that searches up to 25 sites you specify.

Linux geeks will find much treasure buried in the CLI Magic articles at Linux.com.

My son's girlfriend, a beautiful young lady, recently had a haircut. Not very interesting, you say? Well, she went from really long hair to a shorter look, and she donated what was snipped off to Locks of Love, who will take that hair and make a hairpiece for a child who may have lost their hair due to medical treatments or disease.

What would intelligent design have looked like… in the beginning? My favorite line: 'The Inca sun god, however, only scoffed. “Been there. Evolution,” he said. “It’s called a shaved monkey.”'

Read the transcript of this C-SPAN interview with Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia Founder: "Wikipedia is a freely licensed encyclopedia written by thousands of volunteers on the Internet in over a hundred languages and it‘s one of the fastest growing Web sites."

21 Variations on "They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-haa!"… Anyone who's listened to much Dr. Demento knows what this is. As for everyone else, well… just listen.

Subvert from Within: a user-focused employee guide: "Here's my little unofficial guide to creating passionate users for those working in Big Companies."

Spaceship Radio posts podcasts of vintage radio plays written by science fiction greats like Ray Bradbury and Robert A. Heinlein.

"Bloggers are often the only real journalists in countries where the mainstream media is censored or under pressure. Only they provide independent news, at the risk of displeasing the government and sometimes courting arrest. Reporters Without Borders has produced this handbook to help them, with handy tips and technical advice on how to remain anonymous and to get round censorship, by choosing the most suitable method for each situation. It also explains how to set up and make the most of a blog, to publicise it (getting it picked up efficiently by search-engines) and to establish its credibility through observing basic ethical and journalistic principles."

"[E]verybody pretends they don't know what the future holds, when the unfortunate fact is that—unless we start paying very serious attention—it holds what the past holds: a great deal of extreme boredom punctuated by occasional horror and the odd moment of grace."

"The purpose of this article is to explore deviant behavior in a multimedia chat community and strategies for dealing with that behavior… There are universal forms of deviance that will be recognized anywhere on the internet, as well as specific forms that are unique to each community."

Use the Find-A-Human database to bypass irritating phone menus and get to a human being at various companies. (redbold)UPDATE 01/17/06: The database has been renamed and moved — it is now the IVR Cheat Sheet.

I WANT TO SIT ON TRENT LOTT'S PORCH!

Remember the Holocaust.