Archive for November, 2007

Creation Museum Report

Epic review of the Creation Museum, the nauseating edifice to the Creation “story”. With it’s accompanying photo gallery, the review of the Creation Museum is scathing, pointed, and hilarious all at once. Even Christians should be laughing at the absurdity of the assertions put out at this place. To wit:
But seriously, the ability to just [...]

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Name HTML Elements - Timed Quiz

This is embarrassing.
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San Diego Dating

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Food Pairing Networks

a collection of simple network graphs illustrating how the flavor components of 250 different food products relate to each other, as a tool to inspire the creation of original recipes.
Very interesting idea sent to me by a co-worker. The site is a little light on how the flavors were paired (or I may have missed [...]

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Ask Reddit: What’s your favourite joke?

Some are a little off-colour, but I like these (disclaimer: I’m Dutch-descended)
Q: How was copper wire invented? A: Two Dutchmen fighting over a penny
Q: What does a Dutchmen do when The Netherlands win the soccer world cup? A: He turns off his playstation
reddit.com: Ask Reddit: What’s your favourite joke?

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Errol Morris - Zoom - Roger Fenton

A fascinating look at both the history behind one of the most famous photographs in history (Roger Fenton’s photo “Valley of the Shadow of Death” in the Crimea) and Errol Morris’ obsessive journey to lay to rest the controversy surrounding its creation.
Which Came First? (in three parts): 1, 2, 3
(warning for dial-up or underpowered users; [...]

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Obama’s Play for the Tech Vote

He wants a CTO.
The CTO’s mandate would be quite different from the Cybersecurity czar appointed under the Bush Administration. Bush’s czar helped defend against cyberattacks. Obama’s CTO, by contrast, would ensure government officials holds open meetings, broadcast live webcasts of those meetings, and use blogging software, wikis and open comments to communicate policies with Americans, [...]

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Sigh… stupid Windows tricks

Go ahead, click that Back button.

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