According to its Wikipedia article, the name Dexter (from the tv show of the same name) is a play on words from heraldry. Heraldic coat of arms are often separated into two sides – the left side being called the sinister, the right the dexter (left and right in latin, respectively). In positive symbols in the coat [...]
While I haven’t written for a while and despite boycotting the news (to a large extent), I have had some interesting stuff to write about lately. Only I’ve been boycotting that too.
In the meanwhile, here’s a list of this year’s worlds funniest jokes:
• 1) Dan Antopolski – “Hedgehogs – why can’t they just share the [...]
Cover via Amazon
I started listening to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, but it was getting boring. In fact, I ended up listening to Steve Martin’s autobiography instead.
My problem with the Jane Austen zombie adaptation is that the daughters were trained “in the fighting arts of the orient”, and in a “shaolin monastery” no less… Its [...]
Richard Dawkins, the Evolutionary Biologist who coined the idea of memes and authored “The Selfish Gene” and “The God Delusion” – which is just simply brilliant – gave a speech on TED which I heard last week and very much enjoyed.
Dawkins is a confirmed, out-spoken atheist and in The God Delusion set out to criticize [...]
On the video-podcast show called “Its the End of the World as WE KNOW IT and I Feel Fine” (downloaded and watched directly from the great free software called Miro that I just discovered the other day), there was something (on the Twiran episode) I have to quote before I got to work:
“Now, why would [...]
Few things get me riled up like bad reporting. And while there’s bad reporting and bad reporting, intentionally compromised news by self-conscious reporters are the worst. Let me explain what I mean by that.
If the best trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world that he doesn’t exist (as the saying goes), then [...]
About a month ago I bought a new SATA harddrive. 1.5 terabytes for around $150 from newegg.com, it was going to solve my limited harddrive problem. And it did… eventually. Problem was when it was installed, windows wouldn’t boot up.
Now, this is the first SATA drive I’ve ever had, so I spent about a week [...]
…is everyday for some people. I drive my wife crazy, which is why she doesn’t give me an opportunity for me to open my mouth on these things – wise choice.
The BBC’s World Philosophy Day article gave a a few ponderables that really aren’t that ponderable. Maybe because I think about them constantly as it [...]
During the presidential candidate debate, I realized one ginormous fact that paled everything else by comparison. John McCain has no ability in foreign relations, and less ability in the economy. In fact, the only thing he brings to the position – it seems to me, and I’m trying to be as dispassionate and unbias on [...]
