I’ve put up a first pass at visualizing the data from the survey I put up last month about computer language use and religion.  This was an attempt to see if there are any correlations between languages people *prefer* to use and religious identity.  The results are available to be viewed at http://www.kimsal.com/reldevsurvey/results.php.
There’s a few [...]

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This video does a very understandable walk through of the current monetary system we have, and is pretty scary, imo.  It’s rather long (47 minutes), but worth watching.

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So the Westboro Baptist Church has been on 20/20 tonight.  I’ve seen these Westboro church members in a few documentaries, most notably a Louis Theroux British show earlier this year (probably filmed in 2006). 
This ‘church’ – mostly a small extended family – have web sites like ‘godhatesfags.com’ and picket military funerals with signs like [...]

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Some of you who know me know that I can cry at the drop of a hat if the appropriate music is playing.  I’d mentioned it to colleagues before, but I’m not sure they believed it until I went to a movie with one of them and he saw me welling up.  This was the [...]

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For Halloween this year, I’ve dressed up like I do every year – as a creature of habit.  (whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo, insert other scary sounds here)

Whew, that camera phone is just … unflattering at best.  I’m not giving it much material to work with, though, so I can’t blame Sony Ericsson 100%    But [...]

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A nephew of the Queen is being named as the victim in the Royal blackmail plot. His name is now being widely touted on the internet, including the authoritative Huffington Post, quoting the Radar publication.
Royal Anecdotes

My wife is really eating this stuff up. The name in question is supposedly David Linley, son of Princess [...]

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Clients hire web developers (or their firms) because we are the experts. When I call someone in to fix my air conditioner I don’t let them work for awhile and then tell them they are doing their job wrong and I know the problem is the compressor. They are the expert, not me. When a [...]

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Perhaps it’s because I’m here @ work *way* too late tonight, but I was staring at a packet of soy sauce and thought “wouldn’t it be cool if I had a little straw thingy that I could poke in to the soy sauce to drink it like it was a miniature CapriSun?”  Yes, that was [...]

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UK’s Daily Telegraph had an article about Dr. James Watson’s comments about the genetic implications of intelligence. Some of the conclusions he draws imply that blacks are genetically not as intelligent as whites. Dr. Watson was one of the co-discoverers of the double-helix foundations of DNA.
Another article from the BBC includes the following [...]

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Can phone calls be considered spam?  Telemarketers apparently have my name and cell number and are calling me.  Not just any telemarketers.  I’m getting cold calls from the US military.  I had someone from who knows what branch – she just said ‘military’ – call me last week.  I had ‘expressed an interest’ in joining [...]

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