How would Socrates’ students evaluate him?  [via GMSV]

Waaaay out there!
Mysteriousnesses:  Atlantis
[They make you watch a brief advertisement first.]

Blind Date [via MaplePrimes]

If you’re on a diet, don’t even think about Pepperidge Farm Cream-Filled Pirouttes. Are these actually still legal?

A friend sent me a link to Oleg Atbashian’s essay “The Gospel of John & Yoko: The Origins of Mad Morality“.  I either don’t understand Atbashian’s position, or disagree with much of it.
I don’t believe that opposing the war, or opposing the so-called Patriot Act, means that I support terrorism, or that I don’t want [...]

It continues to amaze me that anyone would fall for 419 scams (advance fee fraud).  Normally I don’t even bother looking at the few 419 emails that make it through my spam filter, but today I happened to read part of one.  Surprisingly, it admits in the very first paragraph that many people lose money [...]

Here’s a brilliant new application certification program:  It Works on My Machine.

I received notification today by email that the Mission College Sigma Iota chapter of the Alpha Gamma Sigma Honor Society chose to nominate me for a scholarship. I feel honored by the nomination, but due to my current circumstances have chosen to decline the nomination. The deadline for application is imminent, so I [...]

In a forum I read, someone posted a link to the song Code Monkey by Jonathan Coulton.  He makes his works available under a Creative Commons license, so you can legally share them.  I liked this song, so I purchased it, and I’m going to try some of his others.

H.R. 811, the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2007,  would require all voting systems to have a voter-verified paper trail, which would allow us to trust touchscreen voting machines.  This would ensure that recounts are possible.  Current machines from Diebold and some other vendors have no paper trail, and recounts are not possible.  [...]