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Archive for January 2006

Take This Blog and Shove It

In Family, Muse, Technology, The Rush on 13 January 2006 with 5 comments

Meet the New Poop, Same as the Old Poop
I’m pooped, folks. That’s not to say that you’ve any evidence of much activity, but—truth be told—I’m kind of drained. There’s this new fetish for immediacy, for recency, that’s propagated specifically by blogging, and RSS subscription. The archetypal blog is updated at least daily, [...]

Evolution is The New Creationism

In Foolishness, Technology on 12 January 2006 with no comments

Via Pharyngula, I came across iSpecies, described as “a test of E O Wilson’s idea of a web page for each species”. So, I thought I’d see what popped up when I used the genus homo as the search term.

Ten Signs 2006 Will Be the Year of the Apocalypse

In Aether, Foolishness on 4 January 2006 with no comments

The Campbell’s Chunky soup you brought for lunch is boiling after being microwaved.
You can’t seem to settle on a name for the debut LP you’ll never release, but find “Spontaneous Human Corruption” the snappiest so far.
You’ve searched eBay for rare Michael Landon memorabilia—twice.
You visit the Hustler Superstore in Monroe, Ohio, partly to sate your appetite [...]