Some thoughts , over at The Speculist. Not sure how to categorize this post, but I went with “Technology and Society.” The notion of “celebrities as proto-transhumans” is interesting.
And as a complete aside (based on a comment over there mentioning her), am I the only heterosexual American male who doesn’t find Jessica Simpson particularly attractive?
[Update a few minutes later]
Just to take the post further off topic, I also have no idea what it is that anyone sees in Drew Barrymore (though I know from experience that Michael Mealing will find this heresy).
Ace Of Spades writes about the fragile egos of leftists .
Jesse Londin has a good roundup of comments on the new NPRM from FAA-AST on experimental permits for reusable rockets.
Gerard Baker says that Condi is playing a losing hand on Iran.
Not that I’m a conservative, but I think that many of those who are will find it useful. A petition for conservatives against Intelligent Design .
This is pretty funny (given the proselytizing I’ve had to recently endure in my Fedora upgrade thread). Be sure to take the poll, too:
What would you do if Macintosh’s Witnesses came to your door?
Just hide and hope they go away.
Welcome them with open arms and an open node.
Get down on my knees and praise Jobs!
Join them in their crusade against those Redmond devils!
Try to convert them to Linux.
Nitpick about Macs being more expensive and how you think there’s no software for them.
Put them in the Trash.
This is pretty funny (given the proselytizing I’ve had to recently endure in my Fedora upgrade thread). Be sure to take the poll, too:
What would you do if Macintosh’s Witnesses came to your door?
Just hide and hope they go away.
Welcome them with open arms and an open node.
Get down on my knees and praise Jobs!
Join them in their crusade against those Redmond devils!
Try to convert them to Linux.
Nitpick about Macs being more expensive and how you think there’s no software for them.
Put them in the Trash.
This is pretty funny (given the proselytizing I’ve had to recently endure in my Fedora upgrade thread). Be sure to take the poll, too:
What would you do if Macintosh’s Witnesses came to your door?
Just hide and hope they go away.
Welcome them with open arms and an open node.
Get down on my knees and praise Jobs!
Join them in their crusade against those Redmond devils!
Try to convert them to Linux.
Nitpick about Macs being more expensive and how you think there’s no software for them.
Put them in the Trash.
Radley Balko has Greenpeace dead to rights on their anti-nuke demogoguery.
And you thought there was a Republican war on science? Check this out. Iain Murray has more thoughts .
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