Archive for July, 2005



The nonist has a six page booklet just for bloggers - a public service information packet on the scourge of bloggers everywhere - blog depression.
ar arr arrrr.

Wiki’s have become an excellent resource and seem to be making a resurgence online.
Maybe it’s because as a collaborative effort a wiki is a labour of love.
I’m told by those who work on them, they are quite addicting.
Spero News has two going, St. Blog’s Parish and a new one for protestants that doesn’t have an [...]

I have a mixed reaction to this article in The Vancouver Sun regarding the influence of US evangelicals on the Canadian scene.
It’s mostly true.
Scholars and pollsters who track the links between conservatives in the two countries say the American religious right has gained more clout in Canada in recent years, particularly by bolstering right-wing elements [...]

This physics student should get a mark for creative writing.
Abstract: The exponential dependence of resistivity on temperature in germanium is found to be a great big lie. My careful theoretical modeling and painstaking experimentation reveal 1) that my equipment is crap, as are all the available texts on the subject and 2) that this whole [...]

Is it just me, or do you find this irritating?
How are media, politicans and any other recepient of this sort of email supposed to take people seriously?
I’ve no doubt Focus on the Family would say they are doing this for the convenience of their readers, but if I may quote John Stossel, give me a [...]

Dave Sifry, founder of Technorati, is featured in a Business Week interview.
Interesting facts:
There are 30 times more blogs online than there were 3 years ago.
80 thousand people a day start a blog.
Technorati sees 9 hundred thousand posts a day - which is 11 new posts a second.
Sifry talks about Technorati’s growing pains, current difficulties and [...]

99 people are known dead after 995mm of rain fell in Mumbia, the commercial capital of India.
Different reports put the death toll at 200.
Thousands of people have been evacuated.
India has been keeping weather records for 50 years, the previous amount of high rainfall within a 24 hour period was 370mm. (14.57 inches)
995mm is about 39 [...]

There are different reasons for suicide, one of the most common being the ‘look what you made me do suicide.’
It is most common in domestic disputes and family problems.
A 59 year old suspended Miami commissioner went to the Miami Herald office this afternoon and shot himself.
According to witnesses, just after 6 p.m., Teele held a [...]



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