Month: October 2004

Thanks to the campaign finance laws, political groups are now busy filling FCC complaints at any sign of “partisan” behavior by the media. According to them, speech is only “free” when it’s non-commercial, non-political, and anti-“hate.” Political stances are a “right” reserved for politicians, it seems. All thanks to John McCain, a corrupt has-been politician,…

My comments have been fixed. Thanks to everyone who emailed me to let me know. See, I didn’t ignore your emails – it just took me a month or three to get around to acting on them.

Pratt & Whitney has developed a revolutionary design for a thermal nuclear rocket – a practical design rapid deep-space exploration suitable, for example, for a human expedition for Mars. But don’t expect NASA to be flying nuclear powered rockets anytime soon – NASA is a political creature, and environmentalist paranoia is likely to keep this…

If you can’t take the heat, get out err, back to the kitchen.

They sent 10 pages of single-spaced specifications. The hero was a Hispanic boy. There were black twins, one boy, one girl; an overweight Oriental boy; and an American Indian girl. That leaves the Caucasian. Since we mustn’t forget the physically handicapped, she was born with a congenital malformation and only had three fingers on one…

Faced with too may admirer of their furniture (myself included) IKEA has created their own hate site. Their “villain” is a rather amusing example of bad philosophy

Creationism and the Murder Victim

Two cool new tools from Google: a desktop Gmail notifier and Google Desktop, a free search solution for Windows. Wow, the wonders never cease.

The Initiation of Physical Force As EvilOctober 14, 2004 By David V. For all living beings, life is an ongoing process that requires continuous action to gain and keep the values necessary for their survival. Whether they do it by complex biochemical processes, such as plants and simple organisms, by hunting down they prey, such…

Interesting: Scientists gingerly tap into brain’s power.