Monday - July 23, 2007Saturday - January 13, 2007WikileaksAn online service called Wikileaks intends to
enable the untraceable and uncensorable mass leaking of documents that would
normally be suppressed by oppressive governments.
Thursday - November 23, 2006Hate KillsThere's an art installation titled "Hate Kills"
on the Carnegie Mellon campus. I have posted a slide show of most of the panels
here: Hate Crimes.
Sunday - October 15, 2006The Underground GrammarianRichard Mitchell's
The
Underground Grammarian, a privately
published newsletter from Glassboro State College from the 70s and 80s,
primarily, is happily on the web. In the early days the author typeset it by
hand, but subsequently it was produced on a Macintosh. It was invariably
delightful to read.
Saturday - October 07, 2006Register to VoteTo vote in the November election in Pennsylvania
you must submit your registration form by October 10 if you are not already
registered to vote.
Monday - June 26, 2006Warren Buffett donates his fortune to Bill GatesThe Register reported this morning that Warren
Buffett, the second richest man in the world after Bill Gates, has pledged to
donate the bulk of his fortune to the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation.
Friday - March 31, 2006Praying for recovering heart surgery patients may have negative effectsA large-scale controlled randomized research
study into the effects of intercessory prayer on reducing complications
following heart surgery had a null result, i.e., intercessory prayer didn't help
patient recovery.
Tuesday - March 14, 2006If you want to gain less weight, eat vegetarianData from the European Prospective Investigation
into Cancer and Nutrition, based on a study of the eating habits of 22,000
people over five years, found that while they all put on weight, "meat eaters
who changed to a vegetarian or vegan diet gained the least," according to Reuters.
Saturday - March 04, 2006Where visitors come fromVisitors to this weblog come from the mainland
U.S., Brazil, Canada, Columbia, England, France, Hawaii, Israel, Korea,
Netherlands, New Zealand, and Norway
Tuesday - February 28, 2006Bishop Allen limited editionBrooklyn band Bishop Allen is releasing an album
a month in a limited edition. My favorite song on the
January
album is a song about a discarded piano: Corazon.
Wednesday - February 15, 2006Wednesday - February 01, 2006January was unusually warm in PittsburghThe National Weather Service reported that
Pittsburgh had its warmest January in 56 years.
Sunday - October 16, 2005Sex columnists on college campusesThe
Observer reports that "Across America, student sex
columnists have become all the rage".
Saturday - September 24, 2005Port Arthur, Tx, took the initial force of hurricane Rita when it made landfallI'm sorry to have to tell Reuters this, but Port Arthur, Texas, is a city
with 57,000 people, not a swamp. Reuters reported that Hurricane Rita "crashed
directly into lightly populated swamplands at the Texas and Louisiana border,
sparing Houston ... but battering the oil city of Beaumont, Texas, and Lake
Charles, Louisiana..." What Reuters doesn't seem to realize is that the eye of
the hurricane passed over the city of Port Arthur, which lies between Beaumont
and Lake Charles, and which took the brunt of the force of the
storm.
Friday - August 05, 2005Westboro Baptist Church members have been thanking God for soldiers' deathsAccording to 365Gay.com news, Rev. Fred Phelps and his clan
have lately been demonstrating at the funerals of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq,
rather than at the funerals of gay people.
Sunday - July 24, 2005A developer wants to build a hotel on the family property of Supreme Court Justice David SouterFreestar Media, LLC, announced its intention to pursue the building
of a hotel on the long-held family property in Weare, NH, of Supreme Court
Justice David H. Souter. Souter was one of five justices who voted to allow the
city of New London to use its power of eminent domain to take land from one
private citizen and give it to another because the new owner would generate more
tax revenue for the city.
Sunday - May 01, 2005Porn magazines are being published by students at some of America's best universitiesThe
Independent reported that students at at least ten American
universities are publishing porn magazines, featuring nude photos of ordinary
students, on their campuses. Schools that have their own porn publications
include Harvard, Yale, University of Chicago, Boston University, and
Vassar.
Saturday - March 12, 2005Garry Kasparov retired from professional chess playThe Associated Press reported that Garry Kasparov, the number one
chess player in the world, has retired from professional play. He intends to
write books and to become more involved in Russian politics.
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