Category Archives: By the Power of the Interweb!

Various And Sundry

Posted on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 by Keith

If you think showing the rubes your complete birth certificate will shut them up Obama, you better think again. They won’t be satisfied until you show them a piece of paper certifying that you’re white. Also, this. *** George R.R. … Continue reading →

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For the Record

Posted on Monday, February 28, 2011 by Keith

Last week, I’m preparing my resume for a new round of job searching and as is always a good idea, I google my name. Everything is looking normal until I get down to the bottom of the first page of … Continue reading →

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Beware of This and That

Posted on Wednesday, February 16, 2011 by Keith

I meant to post this a few weeks ago, when it was still on the front page of 3 Quarks Daily, but it’s one of those timeless essays that you can enjoy even after the Internet ADHD has kicked in: … Continue reading →

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And the Buddha Has Robin’s Back

Posted on Monday, July 19, 2010 by Keith

We’re heading down to Comic Con this week. As usual, you can keep up with the hijinks on Twitter. I’ve finally gotten around to setting up twitpic, so there will be photographic evidence that I am in fact, a gigantic … Continue reading →

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Brain Spill

Posted on Sunday, October 4, 2009 by Keith

Here’s a bunch of links to stuff. I’m dumping them here, so I know where to find it all later. It doesn’t all fit together in any sort of meaningful way, unless it does. Buddha Machine – a little box … Continue reading →

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Reason #5,203 I love the Internet

Posted on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 by Keith

This page from the TV Tropes and Idioms Wiki, on James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake, written entirely in Wakese.* It’s brilliant, not only because it’s so fiendishly hard to write in Wakese at any great length, but because there’s absolutely no … Continue reading →

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The Scarlett Galabekian Connundrum

Posted on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 by Keith

PZ Myers and I apparently have the same fans. Or we get hit by the same spam, which is the same thing right? Don’t believe me? This email from our mutual pal, Serge assures us that Scarlett Johansson is really … Continue reading →

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There’s A Little Amazonfail In All Of Us

Posted on Thursday, April 16, 2009 by Keith

Clay Shirky has written a thoughtful essay on the fallout of #amazonfail and our collective culpability in it: Though the #amazonfail event is important for several reasons, I can’t write about it dispassionately, because I was an enthusiastic participant in … Continue reading →

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Amazon Meets the FAIL Whale

Posted on Monday, April 13, 2009 by Keith

So, this whole Amazonfail thing is pretty wacky. For those of you not emersed in the Internet, the short version goes like this: A bunch of LGBT/feminist and sex ed books listed on Amazon were reclasified as “adult” and omitted … Continue reading →

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Call Me SparticusLover626

Posted on Monday, March 23, 2009 by Keith

I’ve been using Twitter and Facebook for a few months now and my general assessment is that these tools are useful for now. That’s about as good as it gets when evaluating technology, especially web apps that are doomed to … Continue reading →

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