Friday, December 30, 2005
The Real Truth That Dare Not Speak Itself
“A balkanization of epistemology is taking place. There is no longer a commonality of understanding. For some people quantum physics provides the answers. Their next door neighbor may look to the channeling of archangels with equal fervor.
It is accompanied by a related phenomenon which is technology, or the [...]
Friday, December 30, 2005
Dancing advertises sexual quality - Study of Jamaicans shows symmetrical dancers shake it better.
Women love a guy who can dance, right? Well, a study using Jamaican volunteers might explain why. The results suggest that men who are better at busting a move also have more to offer as a mate.
Researchers led by William Brown of [...]
Friday, December 30, 2005
“Modern airliners…don’t have accidents.” David Learmount “Aircraft Expert” on the BBC, after Air France plane skidded off a runway and burst into flames at Toronto’s Pearson airport in August 2005, but all 309 people aboard survived.
Check out the crash tally for commercial aircraft following that remark…
Aug. 6: A Tunisian ATR-42 plane crashes into [...]
Friday, December 30, 2005
Three new (and not so new) books attacking the self-help phenomenon:
The Last Self-Help Book You’ll Ever Need: Repress Your Anger, Think Negatively, Be a Good Blamer, and Throttle Your Inner Child by Paul Pearsall
Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age by Frank Furedi
SHAM: How the Gurus of the Self-Help Movement Make Us Helpless by [...]
Thursday, December 29, 2005
Found via the Livejournal Images Harverster
Friday, December 23, 2005
Rollyo: Roll Your Own Search Engine
Rollyo is the fast, easy way to create personal search engines using only the sources you trust.
(tags: online_tools web_tools web_based webapps search search_engine)
html2wiki - Convert HTML text to wiki markup
HTML::WikiConverter
(tags: tool converter online_tools online useful)
Zoho Writer - Online Word Processor
Create and edit documents for export as PDF/DOC/HTML
(tags: online_tools tools collaboration)
Mind [...]
Thursday, December 22, 2005
Performancing for Firefox
You can blog from within Firefox to virtually any Blogging server or service.
Thursday, December 22, 2005
Here are a few new cool online tools….
NetworthIQ - Track, share, and compare Net Worth. How do you measure up?
Track
Take an inventory of your assets and debts to determine your net worth, then track it month-to-month using your free account.
Share
Create an optional public profile so that others can see how you’re doing and link [...]
Thursday, December 22, 2005
The Eric Hoffer Resource
(tags: hoffer true_believer cults mass_movements)
Stalin’s plan to create half-ape super warriors
Stalin’s half-man, half-ape super-warriors
(tags: weird Stalin ape militaria war communists socialism social_engineering)
Slacker Manager: The Several Habits of Wildly Successful del.icio.us Users
The Several Habits of Wildly Successful del.icio.us Users
(tags: productivity del.ico.us del.ico.us_hacks hacks)
Females have advanced sexual software superior to males basic version - [...]
Saturday, December 17, 2005
Only today did I learned the correct meaning of Deus Ex Machine.
My entire life I have confused it with the phrase “Ghost in the Machine”, the title of Arthur Koestler’s famous book about evolution.
According to Wikipedia, Koestler borrowed the phrase from “British philosopher Gilbert Ryle’s negative description of Rene Descartes‘ mind-body dualism.”
“Ghost in [...]