Speculation

Textbook disclaimer stickers:

Wording for the first disclaimer is taken verbatim from the sticker designed by the Cobb County School District in Georgia (see original). To print the above disclaimers onto a sticker page, download the PDF version and shrink it to fit a normal page. To print a full page of a single sticker, crop the PDF version and duplicate the desired image within a word processing program. If you really want to get other parents’ attention, transfer the stickers onto a t-shirt with an inkjet iron-on kit and wear it to school board meetings, especially if they are filmed — school boards just hate national scrutiny. Read “15 answers to Creationist nonsense” (by John Rennie, PDF) before you go. If you want to give somebody a t-shirt for Christmas (if you’re into that holiday), but just hate to iron, CafePress will make one for you (proceeds will help defray the cost of future projects). You can also crop the PDF (or ask me for a PNG) and use it to design mouse pads, mugs, and other ite

Six million of us could be wrong:

Lake Superior State University (slogan: “Our lake’s better than yours”) has banished the word “blog”.

(Via Doc Searls.)

My favorite “good” one is

CARBS – low carbs, high carbs, no carbs, carb-friendly… Meant ‘carburetor’ in a previous life. Needs to be purged from our system. “You’re not fat because you eat bread; you’re fat because you eat too much!” – Emily Price, Norfolk, Va. “What’s the point of low-carb beer? A person that concerned about ‘carbs’ shouldn’t even be drinking beer.” Roger Briskey, Orlando, Fla.

ols-master Flash – watch and listen

TomPaine.com – The Delusional Is No Longer Marginal:

12 | 21 | 04 Return to: Opinions The Delusional Is No Longer Marginal Bill Moyers December 10, 2004 The news about the environment is not good these days. With an administration that wants to rewrite the Clean Air and Endangered Species acts and millions of Americans who literally believe that environmental destruction will hearken the second coming of Christ, esteemed journalism Bill Moyers understands the despair many of us feel. But in this speech, given as he accepted Harvard Medical’s Global Environment Citizen award on Dec. 1, he says the cure for cynicism is the will to fight so the next generation will not have to, and the conviction that the future does indeed depend on our actions. Bill Moyers is a broadcast journalist currently hosting the PBS program Now With Bill Moyers. Moyers also serves as president of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy, which gives financial support to TomPaine.com.

4 November 2004 Source: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/fr-cont.html

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Jesusland – the map:

I had to look – now I had to post

Salon.com News | Bush’s mystery bulge:

Oct. 8, 2004  |  Was President Bush literally channeling Karl Rove in his first debate with John Kerry? That’s the latest rumor flooding the Internet, unleashed last week in the wake of an image caught by a television camera during the Miami debate. The image shows a large solid object between Bush’s shoulder blades as he leans over the lectern and faces moderator Jim Lehrer.

Dancarchy Reigns!: “

I’m about to lead another sortie of dancing fools out into the streets of Manhattan, so I don’t have time to provide a full report. But I want to dispatch some news from the field in media res.

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Nanotech and Kabbalah: “David Pescovitz: At the NanoBot, Howard Lovy writes about the philosophical connection between nanotechnology and the Jewish mysticism of Kabbalah. This is not newage (rhymes with “sewage”) mumbo-jumbo, but rather an informed, passionate, and moving thought-exercise about the “spirit” of science:

“…the most brilliant men of Medieval Jewry, shut out of any other profession in which their intellect could be used, spent what I used to think was a complete waste of mind power, reflecting on the minutia of Jewish law – taking the Torah and extrapolating a complex system of laws. Creating, codifying, obsessively ordering and numbering a spiritual system into a logical system.

But the smaller you get, the more you see the logic and order break down. The laws of physics seem to change. The smaller the size, the deeper the mystery and the more the orderly turns chaotic. It all meets on the nanoscale and below, where spirit/spirituality meets the individual components of organisms, where sand meets wave, where analog meets digital, where spirit meets matter.”

(Via Boing Boing Blog.)