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Posts Tagged ‘debate’

An Opera and Chrome Memory Usage Comparison Shot

By Giania • Sep 4th, 2008 • Category: Browsers

Hot: I realize that everyone’s probably already sick to death of hearing about Chrome, but I thought I’d chime in anyway. Here’s a memory usage shot of Chrome versus Opera. Click the image to see the big picture It’s not really a fair comparison, as the same things aren’t open, but I realized that with [...]



En Flagrante Whatever

By Giania • Jun 18th, 2008 • Category: Fiction

Hot: A clear and flagrant disrespect for all things was extruded from the two young men chatting back and forth on the mostly empty train car and left the air palpably unclean. Crisp suits, slick and greasy hair, shifty bright eyes, and utter animal stupidity were readily apparent upon a quick glance. Typical upper-class white [...]



Heart-Pounding Tales of The Manliness of Men Vol. 1

By Giania • May 30th, 2008 • Category: Fiction

Hot: Tales written for discerning young ladies with a keen admiration of the manliness of the male half of the species, this volume deals with heart-pounding tales of men performing stunning feats of self-surgery and suffering such injuries as would surely destroy men of lesser manliness. Yet never fear! For these manly men always get [...]



Revisionist History: Remembering American Religion

By Giania • Jan 7th, 2008 • Category: Articles of Interest, History, Philosophy, Politics

Hot: They overshot the number for maximum snarky humor by 222. The Daily Kos has provided a link to the list of committee members who will be dealing directly with this bill in their lengthy commentary. I have no idea why only the Democrats have outbound links. As with any law-related item, it is strongly [...]



Summing Up the Value of Restraint

By Giania • Nov 27th, 2007 • Category: Philosophy

Hot: I never thought I would be able to turn to a webcomic to astutely sum up the values of restraint and respecting others perspectives (regardless of what you may think of them. I just discovered WE THE ROBOTS, a thrice-weekly strip in ye old internet, a little earlier. While skimming through the backlog from [...]



Prince Loses Points: DMCA Nonsense

By Giania • Nov 26th, 2007 • Category: Articles of Interest

Hot: I came across an article in The Register a little while ago about one mom’s fight to keep a 29 second video clip of her son dancing to Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy” up on YouTube. In summary: The PA resident, Stephanie Lenz, had placed a 29 second clip of her dancing baby boy up [...]



Rackspace Outage 07

By Giania • Nov 12th, 2007 • Category: Fnord

Hot: EDIT 06-29-2009: Please go here http://www.randomkitty.net/blog/2009/06/29/rackspace-outage-of-2009-06-29-2009/ if you arrived while searching for the most recent outage issue at rackspace. Thanks! Author’s Note: The information below is based upon reports which were handed to me during the incident through various sources. I am well aware that at this point there are inaccuracies. I intend to [...]



Words to Know: Not dead yet!

By Giania • Mar 31st, 2007 • Category: Art, Articles of Interest, Philosophy, WTK

Hot: This Words To Know is being brought to you today by “why the hell not?” and also by “not formatted anything like the other ones”. Now with 99% less Wikipedia and 100% more link mouseover info. This makes it sort of revolutionary among its brethren, and also somewhat of a jerk. First thing's first. [...]



Word of the day!

By Giania • Mar 13th, 2007 • Category: WTK

Hot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chutzpah Chutzpah, as in: “He’s got an awful lot of chutzpah to get involved in a debate like that.”



yikes, the bible is scary

By Giania • Dec 7th, 2006 • Category: Fnord

Hot: http://www.churchhopping.com/ten-verses-never-preached-on/ Which only goes to show that historical* works are pretty fucked up. Or at least the bible certainly seems that way. My question though, is why not build a speech around verses like these? No matter how much of a messed-up fundie some folks might be these days, you have to figure that [...]