Okay, time for a game. I’ll give you some frightening phrases used by none other than our own Commander in Chief, and you try to guess what country he’s talking about.
“[this country]’s active pursuit of technology that could lead to nuclear weapons threatens to put a region already known for instability and violence under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust”
“[this country]’s actions threaten the security of nations everywhere, and that is why the United States is rallying friends and allies around the world to isolate the regime, to impose economic sanctions”
“[this country] is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism”
“We will confront this danger before it is too late.”
If you guessed Iran, you’re right. Here we go again.
And, of course, this certainly has nothing to do with distracting the public from the recent reports saying Iraq isn’t meeting many of the predictions made by Bush, or from any of the other generally embarrassing things the administration has been involved with lately. It would be down-right cynical to assume so. Read more…
Posted by probabilityZero on 2007-08-29 | Filed under: Current events, Noteworthy, Opinion | 2 responses
Exactly a year ago today I started this blog. It’s certainly come a long way, though looking back I didn’t even come close to the “one post per day” I was planning on.
Posted by probabilityZero on 2007-08-25 | Filed under: Noteworthy, Site News | 2 responses
Sure, $30 isn’t much, but that paypal transfer means more than a bit extra cash I’ll throw away on ebay. Although I’ve been writing on this blog for almost a year (a few days less than a year, to be exact) and making a bit of money off it (I took down the adsense after I made the minimum $100), Helium gives me the new and distinct feeling that I’m really being paid to write. I feel like an actual writer, not just a webmaster hoping for generous people to click on my google ads. As of this writing I have three articles ranked #1, one of which is ranked 1 out of 113 and was on the front page for a while.
I’d strongly recommend Helium to anyone who likes to write. Even if you think you have nothing to say, I guarantee you’ll find some topic that interests you enough to write about it. Helium also has something for people who don’t like to write but do like to read, where two articles on the same topic are placed side by side and you rate which one is better and by how much, but I’m sure anyone who browses Helium for long enough will find something they want to share their thoughts on.
Posted by probabilityZero on 2007-08-23 | Filed under: Other | 2 responses
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Posted by probabilityZero on 2007-08-18 | Filed under: Current events, Noteworthy, Opinion | 37 responses
I never really announced it here, but I launched a new website a while ago called Conspiracy LOL (conspiracylol.com). Basically, it’s a collection of the craziest and (therefore) funniest conspiracy theories and conspiracy theorist quotes. It’s driven by user submissions, so I need more people willing to surf Myspace in search of wackos (I can only stand so much).
The site runs on a few hundred lines of php and a single table in a mysql database, and it seems to be fairly fast. I modeled its initial design off of bash.org, the famous IRC quote database.
Posted by probabilityZero on 2007-08-17 | Filed under: Site News | one response
Posted by probabilityZero on 2007-08-14 | Filed under: Tech and games | 2 responses
Today was my first day back at school. Turns out I didn’t do some summer assignment for AP Environmental Science that I was supposed to do, so I had to do it all today after school, in addition to reading the first act of Macbeth for AP English.
Four hours of homework the first day of school.
This is going to be a long year.
Posted by probabilityZero on 2007-08-13 | Filed under: Other | 3 responses
