Those wacky Raelians
Those wacky Raelians claim to have cloned a human baby, but suddenly there’s a question on whether a DNA test will be done after all. Of course, these are people who want us to take on faith that we...
View ArticleAnother Raelian clone?
The Raelians are claiming that a second cloned baby was born. Apparently there’s about as much evidence to support this claim as there is for the first supposed clone.
View ArticleWhen the blogs become the news
Noah Shachtman in Wired.com writes about how bloggers are often breaking stories and bringing them to national attention, when otherwise they would be ignored by the mainstream press. He specifically...
View ArticleRaelian hate speech
Honest Reporting points to some pretty disturbing hate speech on the Raelians’ website. This is what Damian Penny has to say about it: I used to think the Raelians were just a bunch of cranks with some...
View ArticleBack up and running
Sorry about the delay in blog posts . . . my ftp server went berzerk on me. Everything should be fixed now so blogging will resume as usual.
View ArticleScore one for the humans
Looks like Ray Kurzweil’s predictions are still quite a way off. Garry Kasparov beat Deep Junior in a chess game. Kasparov made headlines in 1997 when he lost to Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by...
View ArticleRaelian “clone” in Israel?
The Raelians are now claiming that the first supposedly cloned baby, “Eve”, is actually in Israel, not the United States as they’d previously claimed. Judging by the horribly antisemitic character of...
View ArticlePaul Martin starts blog
Everyone’s blogging these days it seems . . . even our next Prime Minister.
View ArticleFrom the “hey I was looking for that” department
Michael J. Radwin has an interactive Jewish calendar on his site . . . for all those times when you’re trying to figure out if that dentist appointment you’re about to schedule coincides with Yom...
View ArticlePower outage
The power outage that has shut down New York, Toronto, Ottawa, Detroit, Cleveland, and virtually everywhere in between somehow managed to escape us in Quebec, for once. Maybe the gods of power figured...
View ArticleIt’s official: Astrology is bunk
Still reading your horoscope daily? Well, you can stop now. 40-year-long research has concluded that astrology is a load of bunk: Extensive scientific research over more than 40 years has finally...
View ArticleVirus annoyance
I’m getting really fed up with this W32.Sobig.F@mm virus. (Link is to a description and removal instructions, not to the virus itself!) I had to clean it off my dad’s computer yesterday, and my own...
View ArticleSuing the fans
Here’s a great way to get consumers to love ya: Sue them! If you’re the major record labels, apparently this makes perfect sense to you.
View ArticleIt’s raining in the desert
When you’re selling water in the desert and it starts to pour, sorry dude, you’re outta business, better start selling umbrellas instead. That’s marketing 101. Sometimes you have to rethink your...
View ArticleEgo roll
I don’t have any fancy RSS feeds or trackbacks on my site. (I don’t think Geocities supports them, and I’m not technically savvy enough to figure out how they work anyway). So I don’t always notice...
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Tech woes
Well, the good news is, I’m back up and running again. I had to reformat my hard drive this week, after all but killing my computer. To make a long story short, it rebelled against my attempt to...
View ArticleDell tech support rant
Forgive me but I have to rant. (If you’re a child or are sensitive, cover your eyes). Stupid-goddamn-fucking-MORONIC-idiotic-Dell Tech Support!!! First, Windows crashes. I nearly lose everything, and...
View ArticleNot bad, eh?
I’m very proud of myself. As a technical neophyte, I think that purchasing a new CD-RW drive and managing to install it – and get it working – in under an hour is a pretty good achievement, doncha...
View ArticleIn defence of bloggers
David Janes defends bloggers: One of the things I enjoyed about the blogosphere [is the] commitment [of] most of the bloggers I read to “anti-idiotarianism”, a commitment to truth even if it doesn’t...
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