Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)

[Praesidium]

Servator_Mundi: Try this.

(It's weird: tweak the URL a bit and you don't have to register.)

Thanks.

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In addition to his wife, Billings is survived by eight children and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

That's almost a punchline!

[gsandi]

It sure is a good illustration of the following joke I picked up from my wife:

Q: What do you call people who practice the rhythm method of birth control?

A: Parents.

As we can see, if they pass the practice on to their descendants, they are also grandparents, and great-grandparents.

Not that it's a crime to be a parent, I'm one myself.

[bi]

ils, gsandi: Boom.

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Semi-news: the "crazy Andy Lau fan" brouhaha.

News: ...and of course someone just has to make a movie about it.

(Both via Digg.)

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Insane breakdancing, Japan vs. Korea.

Also, a hip-hop version of "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," featuring a guy in a squirrel mascot suit. Actually, it's surprisingly good.

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Top Ten Most Overlooked Games.

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Bookninja links to a series of encomia for the recently-deceased Kurt Vonnegut.

E. Howard Hunt confesses to having been involved in a conspiracy to assassinate JFK.

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Nanowire cloaking draws closer to reality.

[Andrea]

http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=1535 NSFW

Find air guitar boring ? Don't get enough sex ? Enter one of these competitions ! Even if you win, you still lose.

[bi]

Following up on the "Dark Side of the Blogosphere" story: Bitch Ph.D. reminds everyone (rightly) that obnoxious people aren't a kind of force of nature.

[Mr. Saturday]

All I have to say to that is:

Get back in the kitchen and make me a pie, woman.

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Following up on the "Dark Side of the Blogosphere" story: Bitch Ph.D. reminds everyone (rightly) that obnoxious people aren't a kind of force of nature.

Moulitsas really is being a dumbass. He's acquired a reflexive distaste for both gender discussion and calls for civility -- having seen some of the more ridiculous episodes related to both on DailyKos in the past, I kind of understand that -- but this time out he just doesn't know what he's talking about, and he's unfairly venting his issues on Sierra.

Meanwhile, Hamlet for Dummies. I don't know whether to laugh or weep.

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Here's a truly bizarre wildlife story about mice taking up a new diet.

[Anguipes]

God exists. Quod erat demonstrandum.

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God exists. Quod erat demonstrandum.

Disappointing cheat, unfortunately. The trick is sneaking in the word "absolute" right at the beginning.

[Anguipes]

Nah, there are bizzare leaps and logical errors right the way through. Great fun. Try picking the answers that lead you through and revel in the feeling of your brain making muted meep! noises.

[Soren]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDGMnvCm1uI&NR=1
A bizarre Japanese politician.

[FFF]

Nah, there are bizzare leaps and logical errors right the way through. Great fun. Try picking the answers that lead you through and revel in the feeling of your brain making muted meep! noises.

I particularly like how it lumps absolute morality in with logic, math, and science, preventing you from denying its existance without looking like an idiot.

[bi]

It's "quo errat demonstrator", people.

This "proof" is worse than Pascal's Wager in every way. It's more complicated, and just as stupid (if not more). As Diderot says, "an Imam could reason just as well this way."

[Salmoneus]

Well, that part at least makes sense.

But yes, one problem is the 'absolute' that they keep putting in - without even defining what it means.

In fact, their conclusions are correct, given the premises. The two bits where you are forced to accept their premises are their false universal/individual dichotomy* (making you accept an Absolute), and their attempt to make you forget about immanent law in their material/immaterial dichotomy (making you accept that the Absolute is Transcendental). The other stupidities are just icing.

Where there ignorance is most obvious, though, is with paraconsistency - obviously, accepting that there are some dialetheias does not mean that 'there are dialetheias' is dialethic. Indeed, you can hold that there is no law of non-contradiction without holding that there are any true contradictions - you just have to believe that logic is not complete. That is, you could hold that ¬<A>, and ¬<B> and so on, without holding Ax:¬<x^¬x>.


*False because it rules out communal and perspectivist solutions, as well as antisceptic stances.

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It's been years since I've seen better fuel for a good old-fashioned Moral Panic than Sindergarten, mass regression therapy for latter-day raver kids. Come to think of it, I'm not even sure the story is genuine -- but if it's prank on a reporter, it's quite funny. (EDIT: It's a confirmed hoax.)

[Junes]

During shooting lessons, a German army instructor tells his pupil to envision "three Afro-Americans" coming out of a van and insulting his mother.

Not sure what to think of this. The way he says "motherfucker" is hilarious though.

[Salmoneus]

It's been years since I've seen better fuel for a good old-fashioned Moral Panic than Sindergarten, mass regression therapy for latter-day raver kids. Come to think of it, I'm not even sure the story is genuine -- but if it's prank on a reporter, it's quite funny. (EDIT: It's a confirmed hoax.)

Someone's been watching too much Chris Morris.

[bi]

I might have posted this before:

Ubuntu Christian Edition, an edition of Ubuntu Linux with Christian software.

And... Ubuntu Christian Edition Facts!!!!!!

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Wow, the actual Ubuntu Christian Edition software really isn't a joke? Wild.

Alec Baldwin demonstrates proper parenting skills. Put the lemonade down. The lemonade is for closers only.

Most. Unfortunate. Name. Evar.

From Japan, 2-Channel and space fashion.