A story titled ‘Make GodHatesFags pay for their bandwidth‘ has just appeared on the front page of digg; clicking the link will download a podcast from that site. By having thousands of diggers try to download it, it is essentially going to cause a DoS attack on the site.
No matter how unpleasant the site’s message, [...]

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Christmas Quote of the Day

It’s truly absurd, as well as depressing and asinine, to see a collection of pseudo-sentients pretending to exist as persons and pretending to wish one another “Merry Christmas”. You do NOT wish me, or anyone else, “Merry Christmas”. You are defective, vicious, incoherent imitations of persons, stuck in some ridiculous cosmic groove like a broken [...]

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Quote of the Day

“The tendency to occultism is a symptom of regression in consciousness.” – Theodore Adorno
From this page on 9/11 conspiracy theories (which I found on Digg, or something, I can’t remember):

I am therefore sure that the Bush gang, and all the real conspirators of Washington, are delighted at the obsessions of the 9/11 conspiracists. It’s a [...]

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Americans’ Resistance To Evolution Caused By Lousy Advertising Campaign

So, what keeps most scientists quiet about religion? It’s probably something close to that trusty old limbic reflex called “an instinct for self-preservation.”
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The spirit of Christmas

Eugene Volokh points to a nifty article on Slate offering an alternate perspective about Ebenezer Scrooge’s generosity:
Scrooge has been called ungenerous. I say that’s a bum rap. What could be more generous than keeping your lamps unlit and your plate unfilled, leaving more fuel for others to burn and more food for others to [...]

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Update: Project Cleanfeed

Michael Geist addresses some of the objections to the child pornography blocking initiative from Cybertip.ca that have been brought up (e.g. see my post on the matter). Says Geist:
In particular, Cybertip.ca:

is amenable to incorporating judicial review of the block list
will issue regular public reports that identify the number of sites on the block list along [...]

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Carleton students’ council: fighting for… umm…

Carleton University’s student council voted today to ban resource allocation towards pro-life groups by a not-very-narrow margin, one member of the council arguing that ‘[the] campus is supposed to be about human rights, diversity, mutual respect. Well, there isn’t respect when you want to throw women into jail for choosing abortion.’ I’m inclined to suggest [...]

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