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July 8th, 2009
 | 12:52 pm
http://mininova.org/tor/2657843
I can't find the son of a bitch on youtube, but that's a bittorrent link for the video of Killswitch Engage doing "Holy Diver." It's fucking awesome.
ETA:
Killswitch Engage - Holy Diver
thanks lennier
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June 24th, 2009
| 07:24 am
Here's a wonderful story about a nine-year-old who became lost in the woods while out with his family. With nary a helmet, curfew, or child-proof cap in sight, he did not panic and took steps to facilitate his own rescue. He is now safe and sound at home.
I am so happy that June is almost over. It's getting tiresome having the sun come up before 5:00. When I'm up in the middle of the night, I do not need the sun poking its head out and making the sky bright.
I think it's fascinating that my daughter, who isn't even -2 months old, already has her ovaries and all of the eggs she'll ever have. 50% of my grand-children's genetic information has already been printed.
Michael Shermer's baloney detection kit can help you spot warning flags that you may need to think twice before accepting what you're being told.
Last week I got bored and decided to go looking for some Australian television to watch. I seem to have struck pay dirt by finding Swift & Shift Couriers and Russel Coight's All Aussie Adventures on my first two tries. The first deals with the shenanigans of a package delivery service in Sydney, and the second is a satirical look at adventure/travel shows. What other Aussie TV should I check out? How about non-Aussie TV?
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June 18th, 2009
| 09:43 pm
Finally on the 3rd ultrasound we found out we're having a girl. :)
I hope they let women in the NFL soon.
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June 17th, 2009
| 06:17 am
http://richardwiseman.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/answer-to-the-friday-puzzle-5/
The answer to last week's puzzle is: I'm not sure, but it's definitely not 10 seconds.
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June 12th, 2009
| 10:27 am
http://richardwiseman.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/its-the-friday-puzzle-12/
Albert has noticed that his favourite clock in the factory takes 7seconds to strike 7 o’clock. How long will the same clock take to strike 10 o’clock?
Update: [Richard] had loads of emails about this arguing that it is impossible to solve! So, here is the new question ‘Albert thinks that they answer will definitely be 10 seconds. Is he right?’ 10 points for anyone who gets the right answer to that, and 100 points for anyone who tries to work out an answer to the original question!
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June 8th, 2009
June 6th, 2009
| 08:59 am
Richard Wiseman's Friday Puzzle
Albert gets a job in a clock factory. On his first day he is asked to construct a clock. He puts together the following clock…..
However, Albert has inadvertently created a clock that is different to almost every other clock of this type in the world. Can you spot why his clock is so special?
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June 5th, 2009
| 07:54 am
In case there is interest, here is a list of the podcasts I listen to.
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| 05:00 am
So, we still don't know the sex of Meatwad. This is the second time we've tried to find out, and hesheit won't open hisherits legs. I grounded himherit for 3 months and said all hisherits stuff would wind up being yellow. We're going back in two weeks for another appointment. Maybe we'll find out then.
Finally someone in the mainstream gets it. Newsweek did an article on Oprah being a douche for promoting quackery and lies. I hope this isn't the last we hear of it. If someone doesn't stop her, she's likely to start advocating leeches, astrology, and homeopathy. She probably already does, actually.
We're taking the kitties in tomorrow for a checkup. No, nothing is wrong with either of them.
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June 1st, 2009
| 08:46 am
Latest episode of "why do people laugh at creationists?" There are plenty more at youtube.
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May 29th, 2009
| 09:39 am
So, here is a story about the Oklahoma State Patrol pulling over an ambulance and trying to ticket and arrest the driver for not pulling over immediately. Here is the video taken by the son of the woman who was being taken to the hospital at the time. So, taken at face value, assuming, you know, the guy wasn't waving his dick out the back or something, at what point are we allowed to just start killing these fuckers?
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May 25th, 2009
| 12:22 pm
http://richardwiseman.wordpress.com/2009/05/24/answer-to-the-friday-puzzle-2/
Apparently I'm not reading it the proper way. The chances are 1/3, because the issue is the odds of a family having two children who are both boys, not the odds of a given child being a given sex. I'm still not sure I agree, at least with the interpretation of the question. I fully understand the answer if taken at random from a pool of two-child families. I just seem to insist that since the sex of Albert is given, he becomes moot.
"Mrs Brown has one child and a gerbil. The gerbil is a male named Albert. What are the odds that the child is also a male?"
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May 22nd, 2009
| 10:01 am
Richard Wiseman's Friday Puzzle:
Mrs Brown has two children. One of them is a boy called Albert. What is the probability of her other child also being a boy?
( my answer )
What do yall think?
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May 20th, 2009
| 01:20 am
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May 18th, 2009
| 12:09 pm
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason
and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all,
then accept it and live up to it.
--Buddha
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May 6th, 2009
| 01:29 pm
My sister in law once asked me why I thought Oprah Winfrey was a douche. I semi-explained that it was due to her promotion of pseudo-science to fill her purse. I recently read an article about Jenny McCarthy and Oprah Winfrey that reminded me of that question. Then I read this BadAstronomy post about a four-week-old child in Australia who died of whooping cough. What does this have to do with anything? Let me try to explain.
The anti-vax crowd, in which Jenny McCarthy includes herself, is convinced that vaccines cause autism. This is not true. [1], [2], [3], [4]. However, due to her celebrity status, the generally gullible population listens to her and doesn't vaccinate its children against common and easily dealt-with diseases, including whooping cough. This pretty much sucks for the children in question, since they now have a greatly increased chance of contracting the disease in question. This would be bad enough if that were the end of it. But it's not.
Herd immunity is when a population is generally protected against a disease because a certain percentage of its people are vaccinated or otherwise immune to the disease, thereby protecting the rest against infection. Some people cannot be vaccinated due to allergies or other reasons. These people rely on herd immunity to be protected from the disease. The fewer people who have their children vaccinated against certain diseases, the more likely the disease will spread to those who aren't vaccinated, and people die. Those who choose to go unvaccinated, those whose parents decide to not have them vaccinated, and those who can't be vaccinated like the four-week-old infant mentioned above.
Read again: children die because of the proven falsehoods that people like Jenny McCarthy spread.
And since Oprah, with her billions of American dollars, and her vast audience, promotes this and other pseudo-science and sham medicine, she is a douche.
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May 1st, 2009
| 09:14 am
The more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists
More than half of people who attend services at least once a week -- 54 percent -- said the use of torture against suspected terrorists is "often" or "sometimes" justified.
Granted, 12% isn't much in a little poll like this, but it's there and worthy of ridicule. So ridicule away!
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April 30th, 2009
| 02:12 pm
Revolutionary Espresso Book Machine launches in London
It's not elegant and it's not sexy – it looks like a large photocopier – but the Espresso Book Machine is being billed as the biggest change for the literary world since Gutenberg invented the printing press more than 500 years ago and made the mass production of books possible. Launching today at Blackwell's Charing Cross Road branch in London, the machine prints and binds books on demand in five minutes, while customers wait.
Signaling the end, says Blackwell, to the frustration of being told by a bookseller that a title is out of print, or not in stock, the Espresso offers access to almost half a million books, from a facsimile of Lewis Carroll's original manuscript for Alice in Wonderland to Mrs Beeton's Book of Needlework. Blackwell hopes to increase this to over a million titles by the end of the summer – the equivalent of 23.6 miles of shelf space, or over 50 bookshops rolled into one. The majority of these books are currently out-of-copyright works, but Blackwell is working with publishers throughout the UK to increase access to in-copyright writings, and says the response has been overwhelmingly positive.
They Aren't Happy to See Him
A teacher at Wiley Elementary School, in Richland, Washington, asked students to put together their autobiographies. One 8-year-old boy included a photograph of his father, David Henes. The photo showed Henes, who is a member of the Army National Guard, in uniform and holding his rifle. School officials told the boy to remove that photo, saying it wasn't appropriate for the classroom.
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