Jack Handy — “When a child asks me why it rains, I tell her, ‘God is crying, and it’s your fault’”
The government wants you to know that something bad is happening to the weather, and it’s your fault. That’s great news! At first I was worried about the poor in my neigborhood. But I realized […]
Joris Evers at CNET (that’s his e-mail) is now saying that you don’t need to upgrade to Vista; just keep your Windows XP machine patched. He claims that experts support this claim. The headline says “Experts: Don’t buy Vista for the security”.
If you only read the headline and first two paragraphs of his article, you’ll […]
Concerned about biased and inaccurate material in Wikipedia, Dough Mahugh contacted Rick Jellife (a long-time independent expert in the topic at hand) with a proposal. He asked if Rick could review the Wikipedia article and make edits according to his own expert opinion, in exchange for money. Doug further stipulated that he would not review or approve […]
When everyone beat me up for speaking the truth about pretexting, I argued that “it wasn’t clearly illegal when Dunn did it”. I was, like many others, assuming that the hasty California law passage would take hold.
Who would have thought? The law flopped. It’s still not clearly illegal.
OK, we know that Brier doesn’t pretext, and neither […]
Dawkins and Collins, two preeminent geneticists, are arguing God vs. Science. I think Collins makes some flying leaps and panders slightly, but Dawkins is out of control. He’s close to understanding the entire universe in his own mind. I have a little parable from his own field of study to instruct those who care about […]