Category: Miscellany

  • On the Agenda

    I’m overdue in putting together a tutorial for the Screen Savers’ website for my appearance on the show Friday, hoping to finish that tonight. I’ve been working with Dreamweaver to adapt my blog templates, preparing for my next tutorial. So far I’ve fiddled with the color scheme at uncle john’s blog. Both still need work.…

  • Survival of the Sluttiest

    This AlterNet article on “The Virtues of Promiscuity” discusses the evolutionary benefits of female promiscuity; that is the contributions “slutty” behavior makes toward the fitness of a species. Here’s a choice quotation: Even evolutionary psychologists, stout defenders of the meat-for-fidelity model, are beginning to acknowledge the benefits of women’s “slutty” behavior. University of Texas psychologist…

  • The Case Against Peace in the Middle East

    The news from the middle east over the weekend made me sad and frustrated and brought to a head some of my thoughts about the politics of the region, so I wrote a short essay at Junk Mail (The Case Against Peace in the Middle East). Then I copied it into my new “outspoken” category…

  • Confused by the Scandals?

    This flowchart should help you sort things out.

  • May the Best Meme Win

    Seen in Adbusters: Meme Warfare suggests that it may be the memes of the western world that are outcompeting those from other cultures. Doesn’t this just shift the terminology? We’re still talking about Big Macs, the big screen, the Internet and porn, right?

  • Instapundit.com: The Boy Who Cried "Politically Correct"

    I must sat that for a pinko-liberal I myself am leaning toward the “we must do something about Iraq” side of the equation, so that makes it double hard for me to stomach Glenn Reynolds’s put upon attitude in this post.