I think I have mentioned this before, but one of my favourite sources for actual analysis of political events is a column, written by a comic book writer, on a comics web site. The columns are quite long, and usually start out with comic-related material, but they eventually get around to a few paragraphs (or a few dozen if Steve… Read more →
Day: February 17, 2005
Happy / Sad
More on the continuing evolution-in-schools front, sent in by Mr. ReallyTryingToMakeMyHeadExplode. School Board Approves Biology Text Book Without Creationism UPDATED: 7:29 am EST February 15, 2005 ELKTON, Md. — The Cecil County Board of Education unanimously approved Monday night “Biology: The Dynamics of Life” as a textbook for next year’s 10th-grade science classrooms. The decision came after a board member… Read more →
One-liners
Please let this be the nail in the coffin of 733tsp34k.–if your Dad understands it, it’s not cool anymore. I can’t decide whether or not this is real, or a really good Onionesque parody; but intentionally or not, it’s hilarious. (And really, what sane person wouldn’t want to spend $400 US on a gold limited edition AvP tile?) Wow, a… Read more →
Tempusdetrimentomancy
Both of my primary email addresses–the work one and the IEEE one that all my friends should be using–have spam filters that run on the server side. Both of those accounts, and some other less important ones, feed into my client-side mail store, on which I run a Bayesian spam filter. Very occasionally the server-side filter on my work address… Read more →
