Britney Spears, Sex, Porn, UFOs

I've just hastily signed up with Google Analytics, which promises to track information about visitors to my website. I imagine I have a very small audience, so I'm trying to give my site a boost.

Maybe this monkey cowboy will help:

DON'T PANIC

I had a panic attack about dying late last night. I haven't had one of those for a long time. I thought I was over them. As it turns out, I still find death a very scary thing. Who would have figured?

Anyway, the words of Epicurus, as always, helped me calm down:

"Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not."

Funny and Sad

I discovered a list of the top 100 Christian fundamentalist quotes. Here are some choice samples:

If the Bible is wrong when it tells us it is infallible, then it contradicts itself. If it contradicts itself, then it is unreliable. If it is unreliable, then our faith is totally shattered and Christianity is a lie. You need to seriously reconsider your logic.


I am a bit troubled. I believe my son has a girlfriend, because she left a dirty magazine with men in it under his bed. My son is only 16 and I really don't think he's ready to date yet. What's worse is that he's sneaking some girl to his room behind my back. I need help, God! I want my son to stop being so secretive!


I can sum it all up in three words: Evolution is a lie.


[Talking about an eleven year old girl who was raped and then buried alive]

god was sacrificing this child as a way to show others the light. much as he did his own child. what a beautiful gift he has given us.


Apes are just creatures twisted by Satan to mock Jesus by giving EVILolition credibility. Further more they are naturally lust crazed for human women. Since they are not natural creatures they should be exterminated forthwith as the tools of evil they are.

Hive Mind

I usually try to avoid the comparison between humans and ants because it sounds like something a crazed, cartoon villain might utter, but after watching a TED talk on the insects, it occurred to me that there are useful analogies worth considering.

Invariably, in any debate about science, you are likely to meet the old argument that "we can't know anything with certainty" and, frankly, this argument is solid and true. When scientists admit this truth, those who raise the argument often act smug and secure in the belief that science is therefore wrong about a great many things. Well, this is a terrible and unreasonable attitude.

The finite, limitedness of an individual does not equate directly to the system. It is REMARKABLE the way a colony of ants can survive, grow, and behave in complex behavior patterns while individual, finite ants follow comparatively simpler patterns. These ants are able to overcome their individual meagerness by working in conjunction.

Well, Humanity does the same thing. We have been able to overcome our time and memory limitations through community and inventions like the written word. Science benefits especially from, and is in fact a form of, the hive mind. Isn't that a neat way of thinking about things? Yes, we cannot know things with certainty, and yes, individuals are deeply limited, but when working in conjunction, we can discover unknown worlds and forces --atoms and interstellar systems-- we can work simply, discover complexity, and defeat limitations.

I don't know, there's just something neat about looking at human achievement as a kind of hive mind that is greater and more complex than the motors that power it.

Best Party Ever, So Far

SNL could not do better. I seriously thought this video was fake. The comedic timing is too brilliant! Appears to be the real deal, though.

His glasses are famous.

JAY AM CRY

Super Smash Bros Brawl has been pushed back to March 9th, 2008. ::sniffle::