The Smug Baldy Speaks

Many people like to think that humanity is rightfully master of the universe because only our species can perform complex symbolic reasoning and do cool things with our opposable thumbs. We enjoy our spot at the apex of the food chain, at the very pinnacle of evolution, even though we defined the rules by which [...]

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This election year, the big muckety mucks in the Alabama State Government wanted to increase the prestige of our oft-backward little state, so they decided that it would be a good idea to move the Alabama primary election from June to February the 5th, so Alabama could be part of the sweet political bacchanal that [...]

Over on StupidEvilBastard recently, someone (not naming names) forgot “That guy with the million dollar challenge” for psychics. That guy, if you don’t know, is the esteemed James Randi, of the James Randi Educational Foundation (or JREF). Mr. Randi has been debunking kooks and frauds for years, and the JREF recently announced that it was [...]

Donny (Dane maybe?) really needs to take a vacation, but will he make it?. Good demo of the Color Range selector tool, and no juice boxes were harmed in the filming of this episode.

They say that Truth is the first casualty in war. Not now. Not in this war. A week ago, a hacker group calling themselves Anonymous posted their Declaration of War against the “Church” of Scientology, shortly after they were able to bring down one of the church’s websites. Then afterwards, Anonymous posted a second vid [...]

This comes from MyDamnChannel by way of LifeHacker – it’s a bit tongue in cheek while it takes you through a photoshop tutorial. Very funny indeed.

With every presidential candidate shifting into total balls-out (or labia-out, as the case may be) pander-or-perish mode, I think it’s important to cut through the inane hype where possible, and get at their positions on issues that matter to me. One such issue is education. While the uneducated and undereducated aren’t necessarily stupid, they’re still [...]

This comes by way of Fark.com via Bad Astronomy, and should be required viewing for any STOS or Elton John/Bernie Taupin fan. Witness history, my friends:

This is a nice little video from loadingreadyrun.com about the future history of the world following Halo 3.