anti-telemarketing counterscript
Wed, Aug 23rd, 2006
Tired of telemarketers? Give this counterscript a try and see how it works out. I have to admit, I’ve done a little bit of this, but nothing quite so nasty.
Archive for August, 2006
We suck.
Sun, Aug 20th, 2006
Why doesn’t America believe in evolution? - being-human - 20 August 2006 - New Scientist
Even though the average American has more years of education than when Miller began his surveys 20 years ago, the percentage of people in the country who accept the idea of evolution has declined from 45 in 1985 to 40 in […]
Leaving Jesusland
Sat, Aug 19th, 2006
Last week, I had the (mis?)fortune to spend a few days in Louisville, KY. Though I didn’t have much time to really explore the city — I was there for work — it seemed to me like the rest of the great American nowhere, an amalgamation of the flood of crap that we Americans do […]
leaving jesusland: The Rapture Index
Sat, Aug 5th, 2006
As of today, the rapture index is at 158. According to the site, any activity above 145 means that we should “fasten our seatbelts.”
What’s great about the raputre index, though, are the warning signs of the rapture, including:
#12: Drug Abuse
#18: Ecumenism (hmmm, I’d think tolerance would be a good thing)
#19: Globalism
#29: Liberalism (heh, everyone knows […]
Nanotechnology
Fri, Aug 4th, 2006
Over the past 2 weeks, I’ve been working on a paper about the social consequences of nanotechnology. Though my focus is on how nanotechnology will impact food and agriculture at global and local levels, thinking about nanotechnology is like taking a step into a sci-fi future, except that this particular sci-fi future actually has some […]
