Entries from November 2004
Bible Disclaimer
Thursday, November 11th, 2004
Here’s a potential disclaimer to be added to Bibles in response to the disclaimer being added to scientific textbooks covering evolution in Cobb County, U.S. “This book contains material on Judeo-Christian theology. Judeo-Christian theology offers insight into the origin and meaning of life and is the basis for several of the world’s great religions. But [...]
The New Religion of Terrorism
Thursday, November 11th, 2004
A while back the FBI confiscated some servers from IndyMedia, an independent media organisation. The FBI now claim this was part of an investigation into ‘criminal terrorism’. Terrorism/ist has now been elevated to the status of a religion — and the burning of heretics is well underway. So Terrorism can now be incorporated into any [...]
Don’t encourage people to use Firefox
Wednesday, November 10th, 2004
So, yesterday Firefox 1.0 was released. Everyone downloaded it (including me, upgrading from a previous version), and then everyone blogged about changing the world from IE to Firefox. Don’t! You see, at this stage you probably haven’t tried installing a flash plugin or installing any of the neat extensions. Mozilla’s update service is so woefully [...]
Global Warming
Wednesday, November 10th, 2004
The picture above are taken from a Wired news story about the effects of global warming on the U.S. The first image is the arctic ice field in 1979, the other is the field in 2003. Perhaps the environmental ostriches in the U.S. will take their heads out of the sand/bank/arse long enough to see [...]
Help! There’s a dingo in my room…
Wednesday, November 10th, 2004
A British couple had a dingo walk into their hotel room on Fraser Island, Australia. Dingos have a pretty bad reputation and a young boy was killed by dingos on Fraser Island a few years ago. However, on this occasion the dingo ignored the young baby just a few feet away from it. I can [...]
Disappointment and Disparity
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004
It seems like Bush will be the Chief Monkey in the White House for another four years. I share Russ’ disappointment and disbelieve, but I’m not surprised. Assuming that the election was fair (quite likely) and there was no vote rigging (probable) then we have to respect the will of at least 50% of the [...]
Ireland on Bush
Monday, November 1st, 2004
Two weeks ago, I was wondering what the Irish felt about Bush. Well, the Irish Times has asked the question: Would you like to see George W Bush re-elected? 21% said YES, 79% said NO. I guess this is why so many people outside the U.S. are baffled by the current 50-50 split. I’ve heard [...]