The Christian Science Monitor has an interesting article entitled “Will ‘I dos’ end the gay-marriage debate?”
According to the article’s sources, the current resistance against gay unions is only temporary. Like interracial marriages, gay marriages will eventually gain acceptance, and history will remember this time period as a turning point in civil rights.
WE CAN NOT ALLOW [...]
Ok, so I’m a little late on the news. Apparently, during a Meet the Press interview, a Colin Powell aide attempted to cut the interview short by turning the camera away from the Secretary of State. Here’s a link to the video, provided by A Whole Lotta Nothing.
This incident demonstrates how the news media acts [...]
“Voice or no voice the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
Hermann Goering
I never thought I’d have to say this, but…
I hate Movable Type. With the release of MT 3.0, Six Apart has unexpectedly announced new licensing. A free license is still available, but it limits individuals to one author and three blogs. A “Personal Edition” license is offered at the introductory price of $69.95, and it [...]
It seems that spatial Nautilus is stirring up more debate in the OSS community. Nicholas Petreley has written an article for Computerworld slamming Gnome for making “another paradigm shift in basic user-interface design”. Jorge O. Castro, a Linux.ars writer, has responded with a concise rebuttal.
I like spatial Nautilus. I fell in love with it immediately [...]
Now that classes have ended, I’ve found myself with tons of spare time (that I should be using to study). While searching for things to read last night, I came upon RMS’s The Right to Read.
It’s an interesting short essay about what could happen if we allow the government and media companies to take away [...]
I made a lot of sacrifices to watch Troy: I waited in line for countless hours to get tickets, I waited another three hours to get into Wheeler Auditorium, and I endured the freezing cold for an hour after someone pulled a fire-alarm during the movie. I only made these sacrifices because I believed Troy [...]
According to the New York Times, Disney is refusing to allow Miramax to distribute Michael Moore’s latest documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11, which criticizes President Bush and his post-September 11 policies.
Although I plan on voting for President Bush in November, I strongly believe in the total freedom of information. Information should not be censored nor restricted [...]
After creating a CO calibration curve, I decided to run some samples of car exhaust through the FTIR. I wondered if cigarette smoke had a higher concentration of CO. It did.
Of course, the concentration of CO in car exhaust depends upon the car; newer cars have better catalytic converters, which break down CO and convert [...]
After reading technoMyst’s response to my cold fusion post, I thought I’d provide some counter-arguments:
Power companies can choose to adapt or die. Nobody is going to miss them. At the turn of the century, petroleum replaced coal as the fuel of choice. Within a few decades, many coal companies were forced out of business and [...]