Author Archives: probabilityZero

Back to School Again

By probabilityZero | August 31, 2009

The most boring blog posts in the world are ones giving excuses for why the author hasn’t posted as much as he or she wanted to, but unfortunately that’s what I’m going to say right now.
Classes started again today, and I have a rather difficult course load this semester. So, to the few readers I [...]

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Sigmund Freud on Religion

By probabilityZero | August 18, 2009

While many of Freud’s theories about psychoanalysis are no longer believed to be fact by most modern psychologists, he often had very profound things to say, both about his field of psychology and about other subjects.
On the subject of religion, he had the following things to say:

A religion, even if it calls itself a religion [...]

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We already have “death panels” — they’re called health insurance companies

By probabilityZero | August 18, 2009

So, the new talking point from the far-right is that Obama’s health care plan is a secret plot to kill your grandma (as seen on Fox News and Sarah Palin’s Facebook page). They claim that the bill will create “death panels” to decide whether elderly people are worthy of care or not.
There’s no truth to [...]

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Richard Feynman on light.

By probabilityZero | August 16, 2009

Mind. Blown.

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A physicist, an engineer and a programmer were in a car…

By probabilityZero | August 15, 2009

A physicist, an engineer and a programmer were in a car driving over a steep alpine pass when the brakes failed. The car was getting faster and faster, they were struggling to get round the corners and once or twice only the feeble crash barrier saved them from crashing down the side of the mountain. [...]

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Doctored photo of Obama smoking

By probabilityZero | August 11, 2009

Politics Daily reports that the Arizona Republican Party is running a photo of Obama with a cigarette dangling from his mouth as part of their campaign against health care reform. The image appeared on AZGOP news, but appears to have since been removed.

Look how hopeless he looks — irresponsible even with his own health. Surely [...]

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Richard Dawkins interviews a creationist

By probabilityZero | August 5, 2009

In this 7 part series, biologist Richard Dawkins interviews Wendy Wright, a creationist.

Parts 2 through 7 below the fold.

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Joel Fought Back — after going to court over 30 downloaded MP3s, verdict is $675,000 fine

By probabilityZero | July 31, 2009

What punishment do you think would fit the crime of pirating 30 MP3s? If you said “over $600,000,” you probably work for the RIAA.
After a valiant and creative defense from Charles Nesson and his law students, Joel Tenenbaum lost the legal battle that has captured the Internet’s attention for days under the nickname Joel Fights [...]

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AT&T declares war on the Internet

By probabilityZero | July 26, 2009

AT&T has started blocking access to img.4chan.org, which means access to the 4chan imageboards /b/ and /r9k/ are unavailable to most (not all) AT&T customers. An article on the wiki Encyclopedia Dramatica has details:
-Most AT&T DSL (largest ISP in the US, 15.5% of US Internet users) customers ARE currently not able to access img.4chan.org (/b/ [...]

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AP’s impossible text DRM dreams

By probabilityZero | July 24, 2009

So, it’s just text content, but it can call home, track where it has been, and secure digital rights. Good luck with that.

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Christian Civil Liberties Union calls for book burning in Milwaukee

By probabilityZero | July 23, 2009

Here we go again. I think I’m becoming desensitized to these stories. I just can’t muster up the moral outrage like I used to. CNN reports:
The strife began in February when West Bend couple Jim and Ginny Maziarka objected to some of the content in the city library’s young-adult section. They later petitioned the library [...]

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Vacations

By probabilityZero | July 20, 2009

Last week I was in San Francisco to see the de Young museum. Now I just (yesterday) got back from Sea Ranch.  I’ll be back to posting normally soon.

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