Computing’s environmental impact
We really should think more about how advancing technology impacts wildlife.
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Humor
Artistic slogan generator
[Warning in this litigious age: Humor ahead.] Those of us with artistic sensibilities often find it a challenge to communicate (and commune with) our revolutionary artistic credos using totally inadequate bourgeois concepts. So my comrade in arms, George Plumley, sent me a very helpful link: The Market-O-Matic (1.0) [fine arts version]. The results are in.
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Hallowe’en joke
My son and I made up a word-play joke for the season: Question: What do you call a ghost with bad manners? Answer: Eerie-tating. (Hilarious, especially if you’re a five-year-old.)
Existentialism meets high-tech
Wow, science and technology really can solve all philosophical problems. More Savage Chickens by Canadian cartoonist Doug Savage.
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Grumpy grammar guy
I seem to be hearing more jarring language than usual. The major recent ear offenders have been pronouns in relational contexts: Is she taller than me? On the test, he got a higher score than me. Egad. One should say: Is she taller than I [am]? On the test, he got a higher score than
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How to insult like an Elizabethan
Get thy reeky hide hither, sirrah, and desist with the pewling — beslubbering puttock thou oft art. (Via John Enright: no mammering lewdster he.)
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Sinistromanualism
I am a member of an oppressed minority. I have known this for a long time, but recently came across a smoking gun — or at least a smoldering gun — irrefutable evidence of the calloused underbelly of our culture’s indifference to those who are different. Click on this image for the full size to
Religion in America, 2009
Since 1990, the percentage of Americans who are Christian fell by 11 points, while the percentage of atheists rose 7 points. Those are, as Cathy Lynn Grossman of USA Today writes, “dramatic shifts in just 18 years.” According to this Pew Forum survey, religiousness in Illinois is below the national average, which may explain the
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