http://blog.crispen.org The truth will set you free, but first it'll piss you off Wed, 07 May 2008 04:27:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Washington University in St. Louis, better known to most people as "I remember them, I almost applied to grad school there," is planning give an honorary doctrorate to Phyllis Schlaffly, professional antifeminist, better known as "James Dobson with a wig, big shoes, and a rubber nose. ... http://blog.crispen.org/no-bozo-phyllis/ Sorry, life here in the pollen capital of the universe has put me down temporarily, but I'll be back posting soon. Perhaps somebody will   post about  the National Day of Prayer. I looked at the application to be a coordinator, but while I was delighted to see that convicted felons could be ... http://blog.crispen.org/brb/ Deborah Jeane Palfrey, perhaps best known as the DC Madam was Found Dead, Apparently in a Suicide There's a community tribte to her at Bound, not Gagged. http://blog.crispen.org/goodbye-deborah-jeane/ h/t to Blog for Democracy and Amber Rhea And thanks to fegg on b3taboard for this: Hey, authors! Picture uploading works again. Maybe. Wait. It works, it's my brain that doesn't. I originally posted this as a page, not a post. Also, posting and editing work way better in Opera. OK, I'm going over my quota of words, but did anybody catch on that Miley Cyrus is 15 years old?   Did anybody catch on that the young girls in ... http://blog.crispen.org/1000-words/ When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. - Emo Phillips I went looking for a quote for a reply to Ted Goas, who ... http://blog.crispen.org/the-power-of-prayer/ Coming up on Thursday. Why not observe the National Day of Prayer? I know what that gets you: Madeline Kara Neumann http://blog.crispen.org/national-day-of-reason/ I've upgraded to the current version of Wordpress (2.5.1) which fixes an obscure security problem and fixes some other bugs, among them, the bug that gave authors problems uploading images http://blog.crispen.org/upgraded-the-blogging-software/ An interesting article in the NYTimes that's related to early posts about narrative and science and math. In the experiment, the college students learned a simple but unfamiliar mathematical system, essentially a set of rules. Some learned the system through purely abstract symbols, and others learned it through concrete examples like ... http://blog.crispen.org/story-problems/ You know those tourists who have somebody take a picture of them standing next to the Statue of Liberty? NASA is exactly like that. The Greenbelt: Nova: So proud of us -- more pictures there, including the picture of us. http://blog.crispen.org/hi-mo/ Apropos nothing, I offer the following - shamelessly stolen from another blog. Here is where I found it. Attributed to one Leslie Stephen a name that, I'm afraid, means nothing to me. He shows us certain facts as they appear to him. If we are so constituted as to be unable ... http://blog.crispen.org/but-this-isnt-an-argument/