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Lens cap

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:30:01 -0500

The Logitech Quickcam pro 5000 has a flip-over lens cap, one of the reasons I purchased it. Not sure about the others though.

Try not to be offensive

Zed — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:52:54 -0500

Implying cowardice, approval of genocide, land-theft, and now lack of education or awareness are, in fact, attacks. If you want to discuss a specific incident of modern theocratic colonialism in the western world, you'll need to be, well, specific (and ideally, a little more polite). I am, however, not particularly inclined to prioritize the correction of 600 or even 60 year old injustices when there are more current ones to worry about.

"Manifest destiny" is, as far as I know, dead for now (and if you think otherwise, your cause would be better served by noting an example than by insulting strangers). If it gets resurrected, there will be people who attack it. Expansionism and religious hubris are dangerous enough on their own merits without forcibly conflating them.

I see

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:25:14 -0500

Sorry to have disturbed you from your slumber, I gathered by the quality or your articles that you were well educated. I'll go post elsewhere. Some interesting stuff here though, keep up the good work. I was not attacking you, I was trying to gird you into action because I think you are right but have not joined all the dots. We are currently reliving a 600 year old argument, go to the history books my friend. Its all there.

Huh?

Zed — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 07:50:34 -0500

I have absolutely no idea where you are coming from. Nobody uses the "God promised us that land" line to justify genocide and land-theft anymore, so there's not much point in railing about it. Nowadays it's "spreading freedom and democracy" that's used as justification, and most of the same people who are opposed to the destruction of science are also opposed to wars of aggression.

This is something you should be able to see evidence of on this very blog, if you cared to look.

That's all very well but...

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 07:17:47 -0500

Over here in Europe (the Old World) nobody gives a fig about the creationalists and any suggestion of changing the curriculum is met with the polite derision it deserves. I read quite a lot of criticism of these people in US based blogs and while I'm in no way supportive of their flat-earth polemic what puzzles me is the silence on the "God promised us that land" brigade who read from the same kooky book. Is it that you are too chicken to face up to them? Or is it that Americans just don't mind genocide and land-theft but bad science is just too wrong to take in silence?

Cheerful thought

Zed — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 00:06:56 -0500

"Blame it on the revolution and shoot a couple of peasants?"

"At this rate, we're soon going to run out of peasants."

Yes, well...

japplegate — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 19:13:22 -0500

Who's to say we're not still breeding for brutality? Sure, the genome is still evolving, but do we have any way of knowing for sure that said evolution isn't going to make us MORE brutal as a species?

Enjoy your meal!

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Learning something new every day

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:39:39 -0400

Perhaps the rats aid the de-pitting process?

It's only polite

Zed — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 14:03:33 -0400

You're welcome, but I'm surprised it's noteworthy. I try to make a point of crediting the link points when I find something interesting.

Canadians beat US

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 13:43:21 -0400

Hey, thanks for the link!

my test results

Lynne — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 20:22:53 -0400

I am "the Wit"; my opposite is "the Idiot Savant" -- a description follows.

the Wit
(60% dark, 4% spontaneous, 16% vulgar)
your humor style:
CLEAN | COMPLEX | DARK

You like things edgy, subtle, and smart. I guess that means you're probably an intellectual, but don't take that to mean you're pretentious. You realize 'dumb' can be witty--after all isn't that the Simpsons' philosophy?--but rudeness for its own sake, 'gross-out' humor and most other things found in a fraternity leave you totally flat.

I guess you just have a more cerebral approach than most. You have the perfect mindset for a joke writer or staff writer. Your sense of humor takes the most effort to appreciate, but it's also the best, in my opinion.

Also, you probably loved the Office. If you don't know what I'm talking about, check it out here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/theoffice/.

PEOPLE LIKE YOU: Jon Stewart - Woody Allen - Ricky Gervais

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 61% on dark
You scored higher than 0% on spontaneous
You scored higher than 0% on vulgar

Fixed. Again

Zed — Wed, 25 May 2005 03:23:24 -0400

I really need to be more conscientious about testing links when I post. The problem was actually that it was missing the leading quote (the trailing one was supposed to be there).

Got it!

Anonymous — Tue, 24 May 2005 20:32:05 -0400

Ye gods that was good!! My favorite -- well, I can't decide. I loved all of it, but I think Obi-wan Cannoli and Chewbroccoli made me laugh the hardest.

Whoever made that should get an award.

Yes

japplegate — Tue, 24 May 2005 19:36:12 -0400

It IS hilarious, and I'm a junk-foodite!

"Search your peelings..." Ghods...

I see why...

japplegate — Tue, 24 May 2005 19:34:35 -0400

If you right-click and "copy link location" (something similar under IE) then paste it into your address bar, delete all the characters after the word "flash" and hit enter, it will work.

Or, Zed can fix the link by removing the trailing " character.

Enjoy your meal! Thank you, drive through...

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Hello, My name is Linus Torvalds. You killed my process. Prepare to die.