If you aren’t familiar with the actions of Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church, go look it up in wikipedia. I won’t link here. To summarize, they feel that America is too tolerant of homosexuality, and everything bad that has happened in the past twenty years is the punishment of god for that tolerance: …
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Protecting the Unborn -or- Hypocrisy
Despite the title, this has nothing to do with abortion. This also has nothing to do with pre-natal care. It’s really more about the weirdness of people. Follow this link to an article discussing the health dangers of smoking, and smoking while pregnant. But don’t go there to see the statistics about how bad smoking …
Toddler Stuck in Traffic Cone
Usually any Harry Potter news from around here concentrates on bible-lady in Gwinnett county who wants to ban the books because they teach witchcraft. Today, we’ve go a different happening. A toddler was stuck for 30 minutes with a traffic cone on his head after he put it on to emulate the boy wizard. A …
Comcast Denying Bittorrent Traffic
AP has (apparently) confirmed that Comcast is blocking Bittorrent regularly. A back-of-my-envelope thought on this matter is that they are saving bandwidth to sell to other people, so it’s part of their business model to manage the network traffic through their backbones. Seems that this will have continuing impacts on their customers and the ongoing …
Vicious Mean Evil MS Excel 2007 Bug
Ah, the perils of floating poing calculation. Apparently there is a bug in Excel 2007 which causes 12 floating point values around 65535 and 65536 to be displayed incorrectly. Calculations aren’t effected, but the displayed number comes out as 100,000 or 100,001. I’m guessing this wasn’t an easter egg, or it would be funnier.
James Watson: Victim of Politics
Yesterday, I alluded to racist statements made by James Watson, regarding the inability of africans to measure up to other persons in the intelligence arena. Today, I see that he has been suspended from “the administrative responsibilities” of his posting at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, due to the board’s “disagreeing with the comments…” This is …
Robert Jordan is Dead
I can’t believe this slipped past me for two days. Robert Jordan, author of the voluminous Wheel of Time series, passed away on the September 16th due to a disease he was diagnosed with a year and a half ago.
Sacrifice Goats to Fly!
Boeing should add this practice to its standard maintenance manual.
Is it Allergies, or Maybe a Pencil Stuck in your Head?
This deserves a Holy Crap! Check out the MRI of a 55 year old woman who has had a pencil lodged in her brain since age four. routed through pharyngula
Hacking your Office Cardreader
The Defcon security conference is going on, and one of the demonstrations showed how you can hack your way through a stardard office card reader door lock with preparation and a bit of knowhow. Thankfully, the only thing there is to steal in my office is equipment, but I’m sure law firms would be interested …