Monthly Archives: December 2006

For Jimmy

Posted on December 20, 2006 by arensb

I’ve gotten entangled in a discussion in the comments on another thread. It has drifted far off-topic, so I’m giving it its own thread.

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Eine Kleine Weihnachtsmusik

Posted on December 19, 2006 by arensb

I ran across this video of a Helsinki choir, and thought y’all might like some holiday music, something we can all enjoy, regardless of religion, social status, etc: var so = new SWFObject(“/media/flash/player.swf”, “glumbert.com”, “496″, “372″, “7″, “#FFFFFF”, true);so.addVariable(‘file’,'helsinkichoir’);so.write(“mediacontent”); (HT … Continue reading →

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Sell Your Soul, Get A Free DVD

Posted on December 16, 2006 by arensb

Brian Flemming and the Rational Response Squad have announced the Blasphemy Challenge. The offer is simple: deny the Holy Spirit in a video (thus committing the one unforgivable sin and condemning your soul to eternal torment), post it to YouTube, … Continue reading →

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77.1 µHz…

Posted on December 14, 2006 by arensb

The frequency at which PZ Myers has been posting to Pharyngula, on average. Me, I’m in the 4.4 µHz range.

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How Do You Spell the Names of the Months?

Posted on December 11, 2006 by arensb

One construct that I’ve seen (and used) a lot in Perl is a hash that maps month abbreviations to numeric values that can be fed to POSIX::strftime: our %months = ( “jan” => 0, “feb” => 1, “mar” => 3, … Continue reading →

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Soapboxes of Morality

Posted on December 8, 2006 by arensb

Americans United reports that Jerry Falwell’s Liberty Council has nothing better to do than to go around checking which retailers have the word “Christmas” on their websites. (HT UTI and mcoletti.) curvemudgeon said it best, a long time ago: Why … Continue reading →

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Unexpected Science Song

Posted on December 8, 2006 by arensb

We all knew that They Might Be Giants know stuff, but even so, I was pleasantly surprised, while listening to this month’s episode of their podcast, to hear Cut the Strings:

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Color Me Converted

Posted on December 1, 2006 by arensb

I’ve just picked up Ellis Weiner’s book, Santa Lives!: Five Conclusive Arguments for the Existence of Santa Claus. The arguments are: The Ontological Argument We can imagine a perfect Santa Claus. A Santa Claus who exists is obviously more perfect … Continue reading →

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