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2008

May

• On “appeasement”

• Keeping the streets safe

• Who knew Hitler would be so useful?

• Super-easy macro ringlight to make

• Landslide

• Stop the bleeding NOW

• ‘Toon Physics’ and the Hillary Campaign

• Wood-based computation technology

• “Carnival Of The Elitist Bastards” request for submissions

• Volcano geeks

• User-Friendly

• It is difficult to live in the moment

• Movie Review: ‘The Band’s Visit’

• The Manchurian Candidate

• The Empire Strikes Barack

• Internet Combo Plate

• A trip down (microfilm) memory lane

• Hey, I almost forgot

April

• Steering by idiocy

• Theory is practical in practice

• Xubuntu 8.04 on IBM ThinkPad T-21

• Monday Morning Music: SPIN

• Educational Contraband

• Theory is practical

• Lots of accounts deleted

• The more things change

• “A little thrill in learning”

• Iraq Veterans Against The War (updated)

• Go for a walk today

• New Laptop & Linux Installation

• A modest proposal to control Civic Boosterism

• Hitchhiking the Pennsylvania campaign trail

• The pope still doesn’t get it

• We’re OK… really! (Earthquake)

• Expelled, spewing into a theater near you

• Ralph Nader visits our university

• Will the first pass on a Turing test come from spammers?

• On the value of raving lunacy

• Monday Morning Music: “Send the Marines!”

• Murphy’s Law

• Sunday Morning Sermonette:  Obama’s ‘bitterness’ speech

• Of no small importance to New Orleans, I would think

• The concept of shifting baselines

• Food colorings found related to hyperactivity

• Why I like SanDisk MP3 players

• The banana: “the atheist’s worst nightmare”

• The real game of boggle

• The Power of Science

• Should I file this under religion?  Under politics?  Or under stupidity?

• In case you’re wondering why your kids’ handwriting isn’t up to snuff…

• Cash meets Reznor

• Some oldies but goodies

• Dusty Death

• Assorted links to fun stuff

• The human cost of meat

• Friday Technology Funnies

• What would Dr. Seuss say?

• I don’t know what could be funnier than…

• Is patriotism a virtue? Guest post by Kent Ashcraft

March

• Out like a lion

• At a larger scale

• I think I might have Web 2.0 disease

• Computerized assault

• Candorville on Offense

• A less serious frame on “Expelled”

• I for one welcome our new mathematical overlords…

• Commuting

• Facebook wants to be the next Microsoft

• Guest post by Lucas:  Kurzweil, “exponential thought”, and gee-whiz numbers

• Maglev derailed

• “Who’s crazier now, Washington Times?”

• Fitting back in

• Gay scientists close to isolating “Christian gene”

• Homer Simpson if he wasn’t a toon

• Everybody sign up as “PZ Myers”

• Bush on the romance of danger

• I get the coolest emails…

• “…Not this time!” - Obama talks about race

• Faith healers, try to keep up…

• OK, Dreamweaver is officially pissing me off

• Arthur C. Clarke, 1917 - 2008

• Expensive Cheapening

• Monday Morning Mystery Photo

• Quick review of MacBook Air

• Talk like a physicist day

• Can we admit corn ethanol is a mistake?

• On the value of the poetic in science

• This is why “Experience” is more important than “Change”

• Stuffing the Facebook genie back into the bottle

• $160 Xubuntu platform

• Looking across the aisle for escape

• Journalistic Nitwittery

• Frozen (laptop) Memory

• More stupidity from the NIU shooting

• Campus safety follies

• One out of a hundred Americans in prison

February

• Footprints

• Now how am I going to enjoy the election-night suspense?

• On terrorism: Credit where credit is due

• Monday Morning Music: Caves Of Altamira

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