Archive for April, 2007
Sunday, April 29th, 2007
Our little baby is growing up. Oz edited his first Wikipedia page today.
Unsurprisingly, it involved correcting a map-related page (what with him being the Road Whisperer, and involved with NYSDoT quality control).
Posted in albany-ny, parenting | 2 Comments »
Saturday, April 28th, 2007
Once again, an act of terrorism against a women's clinic (Arrest Made in Bomb at Texas Clinic), where a nail bomb is left outside. Once again, the spotty news reports fail to call it that. As I've said: Christian terrorism is no terrorism at all.
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Saturday, April 28th, 2007
OK, so as both a supporter of and sometime participant in (made you look) gay marriage, I'm happy to see that Elliot has proposed a bill legalizing gay marriage in NY -- not some watered-down civil unions, BFFs, or other second-class citizen bullshit, but real, full blown marriage. ...
Posted in politics, religion, sexuality, society | No Comments »
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
The Bush/Roberts court strikes its first major blow against reproductive rights: Court Backs Abortion Ban. Justice Kennedy sides with the forces of evil, and by a 5-4 margin, they ignore their own 2000 precedent and uphold a national ban on the abortion procedure called "intact dilation and evacuation", and derided ...
Posted in politics | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
There are now some independent results mounting that suggest a strange non-randomness in the residual radiation left behind by the big bang -- a kind of "axis" in the (so far assumed to be) random distribution of hotter and cooler spots. As a development in cosmology, it's interesting and ...
Posted in personal | 1 Comment »
Sunday, April 15th, 2007
I don't push tech stuff too often, but I'm pretty freakin' impressed [OK, less now; see below] with Jott, now in public beta. Call it on the phone, tell it who in your contacts you want to email, record the message, and it does a pretty shockingly good job ...
Posted in tech | 5 Comments »
Sunday, April 15th, 2007
I showed Oz how to use gizmoz.com to make a talking head video that reads some text you enter. So he picked the Bush head, put in front of the White House, and wrote the little lines of commentary. I swear, I didn't prompt it at all (except ...
Posted in parenting, politics | No Comments »
Friday, April 6th, 2007
April 6-8th this year is Blog Against Theocracy.
Being a bit busy but not wanting to be left out, I offer for day one this effective four-parter on experiences of God nosing into the public schools, from the perspective of me, the atheist parent:
God visits our public school
Truth, justice, and the ...
Posted in religion | 4 Comments »
Sunday, April 1st, 2007
Gmail Paper. Just what we've been waiting for.
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