slacktivist: Gay-hatin’ Gospel (pt. 4) Blogdom’s best writer on religion and politics continues his series on why evangelicals are so hostile to gays. (tags: religion society politics gender) It Is Written – Books & Culture Christianity Today reviews The Year of Living Biblically (tags: culture religion books review society) Casimir Forces between Arbitrary Compact Objects […]
Month: October 2007
Libertarians Are Cheap Bastards
They’re too cheap even to donate to DonorsChoose, and– Oh. Wait. They are, aren’t they? This is the worst fundraising idea ever.
DonorsChoose Payoff: Sporting Superiority
As part of the “Buy This Blog” incentive for the DonorsChoose fundraiser, Ewan McNay asks for a post on the superiority of Commonwealth sports (cricket, football) over the US-favoured kind (baseball, american football) ;-). Oh, OK, then; I’ll setle for cricket. Cricket? You want me to talk up cricket? The best I can do is […]
Quantum Consciousness and the Penrose Fallacy
Over at Neurophilosophy, Mo links to an article by a physicist, posted on the arxiv, that claims to explain visual perceptions using quantum mechanics: A theory of the process of perception is presented based on von Neumann’s quantum theory of measurement and conscious observation. Conscious events that occur are identified with the quantum mechanical “collapses” […]
links for 2007-10-26
Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education – Inside Higher Ed :: ‘Inside Greek U.’ Surprisingly sensible comments about a new book on fraternities and sororities (tags: academia education books) Books: The Musical Mystique “The discourse supporting classical music so reeks of historical blindness and sanctimonious self-regard as to render the object of […]
Blah Blah Blah
Blah blah, blah-blah blah blah blah– blah (blah)– blah, blah blah. Blah blah blah, blah blah, blah-blah blah. Chicken chicken chicken, chicken-chicken . Chicken, chicken chicken chicken. Chicken, chicken-chicken, chicken. Badger badger badger, badger badger badger. Badger, badger badger. Snake!!!
Non-Dorky Poll: Rooting for the Enemy
This was a topic yesterday on Mike & Mike, but I already had a full slate of blog posts. I like the question, though, so I thought I’d put it up here: If you’re a fan of a team in a sport with a championship playoff, who do you root for when your team is […]
Dorky Poll: Numerical Trivia
I was most of the way through a long post in response to a donor request, when the power went out. It is, in fact, still out at home, and the power company’s web site lists an estimated restoration time of 1pm. As you might imagine, this puts something of a kink in my morning. […]
links for 2007-10-25
Welcome to Syracuse University News. “Andrea Farina, a senior communications design major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ School of Art and Design, won the World Rock Paper Scissors (RPS) Championship” (tags: silly sports) Cocktail Party Physics: just an ordinary man Celebrating 50 years of the Bardenn-Cooper-Schrieffer theory of superconductivity. (tags: physics quantum […]
We’re #1!
Dave at the World’s Fair has an idea for a “meme”: [Y]ou will attempt to find 5 statements, which if you were to type into google (preferably google.com, but we’ll take the other country specific ones if need be), you’ll find that you are returned with your blog as the number one hit. This was, […]