You win, Web 1.0! My blog now has comments.

Hello.

So - as you can see I'm not updating my own LJ. If you want to see my posts to the world, you can go to http://moorewr.tumblr.com ... I'm all Web 2.0 now. Deal with it.

It works fine in any RSS reader.. bloglines and google reader work.
[Also, if you have a paid LJ account you can just add it to your friends page with the "Syndication" page:
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=137&q=rss&lang=]

If you are attached to leaving comments, call this an open thread.

http://moorewr.tumblr.com/

Google is officially going to conquer the world. There will be no other companies and nowhere else to go on the Internet.

http://www.sagecrossroads.net/quiz

You Score as a Transhumanist-Biotech Transhumanists believe that humanity can and should strive to attain higher levels of physical, mental, and social achievement through the use of technology. They seek to extend human capabilities and improve the human condition through technology- supporting the quest for immortality, the conquering of death and disease, the amplification of human intelligence, and the capabilities of the human body. Transhumanists recognize that over time and with technological advancements, man will realize new possibilities for society and human nature and achieve a posthuman condition (becoming more than human). Societal change is an important consequence of technological progress. Because of this passionate trust in technological advancement, transhumanists generally see all technologies, as long as they don't jeopardize the non-corporeal consciousness of a person, as being beneficial both to society and to the happiness and advancement of the person. Transhumanists see benefit not only in technologies that address medical necessities, but also aesthetic or recreational demands. They support advances in cybernetics, genetic engineering in clinical settings, embryo design, and other technologies that allow individuals to take control of their biology, and the human species to take control of evolution. Transhumanists can be either hard-technology oriented--more inclined to add microchips and machines to their lifestyle--or bio-technology oriented--preferring the softer, more natural advancements and modifications that are made available. [ See All Results ]

Your Results You scored as a TB 72.8% of people also scored as TB Other Results 7.9% of people scored as BC 1.1% of people scored as BL 0.1% of people scored as LU 0.6% of people scored as TC 17.6% of people scored as TP

Share your answers with your friends! Copy and past the code in the box into your blog or a message board post and see who else is ready to push the bounds of what it means to be human.

Tell me, TELL ME this byzantine piece of crap is an elaborate prank on their users:

MSDN: "Memory Limits for Windows Releases"


Christ on a bike, people.

Worst Server OS of all time (except for Netware, maybe).

Warning! This post is 100% My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult. Now: Do you? Do you fear for your child?

I'm the White Rabbit

Courtesy of the Houston Gem and Mineral Society, a pet trilobite:


My daughter has been wall-to-wall trilobite drawings, print-outs, and home-made "Museum exhibits" throughout our hosue for the last day. She's SO COOL!

Sing it for McCain!

Ann Coulter Endorses Clinton



I don't even know what to say.

The Backyardigans episode "the Legend of the Volcano Sisters" is the most significant commentary on gender relations produced by our civilization since Simone de Beauvoir.


That is all.

Yes, you have to pick one. No other options exist. The private life is dead!Poll #1122344 Who are you?
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 6

Are you Zhivago or Strelnichov?

(ok, evidently I should have transliterated as Strelnikov, not Strelnichov. After the revolution such effete bourgeois distinctions will no longer exist).

http://cliffschecter.bravenewfilms.org/blog/23372-mike-the-huckastructionist

In 1998, Mike Huckabee co-wrote the book, “Kids Who Kill” with Reconstructionist author George Grant. Grant is an ideologue with extreme, even dangerous religious views. The question is, does the former Arkansas governor share Grant’s view of the role of Christianity in government? This passage is from Grant’s 1987 book “The Changing of the Guard” (Ft. Worth, TX: Dominion Press, 1987), pp. 50-51.

“Christians have an obligation, a mandate, a commission, a holy responsibility to reclaim the land for Jesus Christ - to have dominion in the civil structures, just as in every other aspect of life and godliness. But it is dominion that we are after. Not just a voice. It is dominion we are after. Not just influence. It is dominion we are after. Not just equal time. It is dominion we are after. World conquest. That’s what Christ has commissioned us to accomplish.”


(EDIT: added the lede about Huckabee and Grant so as not to deceive)

In my spare time I play Dungeons and Dragons On-Line. I like it a lot. Now I am going share some videos from the game (not recorded by me mind you) with you. The first one is accompanied by a song by Lamb of God. Approach with caution.




And, making monsters dance, to the tune of Electric Six.

If you are only vaguely tuned in to the news or (poor devil) get your updates from an unreliable source like Drudge, or Fox News, or a bathroom wall.. you may have heard that a British court ruled that _An Inconvenient Truth_ had scientific errors.

The truth is more.. inconvenient. Ha ha.


Exhibit A

http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2007/10/an_error_is_not_the_same_thing.php
An 'error' is not the same thing as an error

A UK High Court judge has rejected a lawsuit by political activist Stuart Dimmock to stop the distribution of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth to British schools. Justice Burton agreed that

"Al Gore's presentation of the causes and likely effects of climate change in the film was broadly accurate."

There were nine points where Burton decided that AIT differed from the IPCC and that this should be addressed in the Guidance Notes for teachers to be sent out with the movie.

Unfortunately a gaggle of useless journalists have misreported this decision as one that AIT contained nine scientific errors. Let me name some of the journalists who got it wrong: Sally Peck in the Daily Telegraph, Nico Hines in the Times, Mike Nizza in the New York Times, James McIntyre in the Independent, PA in Melbourne's Herald Sun, David Adam in the Guardian, Daniel Cressey in Nature, the BBC, Mary Jordan in the Washington Post, Marcus Baram for ABC News, and (of course) Matthew Warren in the Australian.

Let's look at what Burton really wrote (my emphasis):

Mr Downes produced a long schedule of such alleged errors or exaggerations and waxed lyrical in that regard. It was obviously helpful for me to look at the film with his critique in hand.

In the event I was persuaded that only some of them were sufficiently persuasive to be relevant for the purposes of his argument, and it was those matters - 9 in all - upon which I invited Mr Chamberlain to concentrate. It was essential to appreciate that the hearing before me did not relate to an analysis of the scientific questions, but to an assessment of whether the 'errors' in question, set out in the context of a political film, informed the argument on ss406 and 407. All these 9 'errors' that I now address are not put in the context of the evidence of Professor Carter and the Claimant's case, but by reference to the IPCC report and the evidence of Dr Stott.

If you noticed the quotation marks around 'error' then you are more observant than all of the journalists I listed above. Burton is not saying that there are errors, he is just referring to the things that Downes alleged were errors. Burton puts quote marks around 'error' 17 more times in his judgement. Notice also the emphasised part -- Burton is not even trying to decide whether they are errors or not. This too seems to have escaped the journalists' attention. (And yes, that was Bob Carter mentioned there.)

..watching your 4-yr old daughter wander around the house singing Warren Zevon?

"Awwooooooooooo! Werewolves of London! I saw a werewolf in Trader Vic's with PERFECT HAIR!"

We'll work on lyrical accuracy down the line. :)