Epsilon Clue

This is the hundredth entry in this weblog. Wheee! First post!

Remember the “War on Christmas” that John Gibson and Bill O’Reilly wag-the-dogged up out of nothing, using a mixture of three parts persecution complex, two parts paranoia, and one part batshit insanity? And have you noticed the War on Easter that they’re now brewing up out of that same cauldron? (In case you missed it, it was started last year by […]

Remember this article from The Onion?: DESPERATE VEGETARIANS DECLARE COWS PLANTS LAS VEGAS — At its annual national conference Saturday, the American Association of Vegans and Vegetarians released results of a detailed in-house study determining that the common beef cow is actually a plant, 100 percent fit for vegetarian consumption. “Contrary to what was previously thought, the cow […]

So I hear we as a country now have a brand shiny new credit limit debt ceiling. Nine trillion dollars. Or 9e12 as nerds write it. Allow me to establish some facts before I get to my main point: Today, gold costs $550.80 an ounce. One gram of gold can be beaten into a sheet with an area […]

Chris Doyle has enough time on his hands to build a Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster out of Legos.

(Or: Life Imitates Logic Puzzle) Lately, to measure out water for coffee, I’ve been filling whichever mug I intend to drink from, and pouring it into the coffee maker. That way, I know there’s the right amount. This morning, I was making coffee for the drive in to work, and noticed that I had poured coffee from […]

So I took a glance at the web server log, and found that my old article How Not to Embarrass Yourself In an Argument With an Atheist somehow managed to make its way to http://del.icio.us/popular/. So take a load off and stay a while. There’s beer and sodas in the fridge. Oh, and a lot of people commented […]

I wrote earlier about my dismay at finding out just how cheap some of the whores on Capitol Hill are. Rasmussen Reports has collected some data on what people think congressmen cost. Half of all Americans believe it takes a contribution of at least $50,000 to influence a Congressman or Governor. That includes 27% who believe the price of […]

I got stuck debugging someone else’s Perl code today, and it was chock-full of the sorts of things that annoy the piss out of those of us who know better.

Andrew Rowell at ID In the UK writes: The basic articles of faith for a methodological naturalist go something like this: We have found excellent naturalistic explanations for many phenomenon [sic] in nature. Therefore we believe every phenomenon in nature will have a naturalistic explanation. Therefore we make it a strict rule that science is exclusively the study of possible naturalistic explanations for what can be […]