My current time-wasting hobby, City of Heroes, allows me to take instant, in-game photos. I've been doing it for a few months now and finally got around to making a scrapbook.
It's unsorted, except by date. I may go in at some point and add text to a number of photos. My main 'toon, BluShield, hit the top of the game on 3/4/06. Captain Physics hit 50 on 7/5/06.
Monday, July 24, 2006
My Extremely Generous Contributions at Work
As you know if you read this blog, I give a lot of money to the ACLU. There are two benefits to this; 1) the protect my freedom and 2) it annoys the boy to know the money that would otherwise go to X-box stuff is going to a "liberal" group.
You also know, if you read this, I'm no fan of Fred Phelps.
And now, my hard earned sheckles are going to defend him. Ugh.
ACLU Backs Funeral Picketers:
The ACLU has filed suit on behalf of a religious group that pickets military funerals with anti-gay messages. The suit challenges the state of Missouri's law barring picketing near military funerals. An equivalent federal measure was signed into law earlier this year.
I dont agree, but I really am fighting (at least by proxy) for his right to be a jerk.
You also know, if you read this, I'm no fan of Fred Phelps.
And now, my hard earned sheckles are going to defend him. Ugh.
ACLU Backs Funeral Picketers:
The ACLU has filed suit on behalf of a religious group that pickets military funerals with anti-gay messages. The suit challenges the state of Missouri's law barring picketing near military funerals. An equivalent federal measure was signed into law earlier this year.
I dont agree, but I really am fighting (at least by proxy) for his right to be a jerk.
Monday, July 17, 2006
Going to Pucking Fluto!
errr... sorry. I just got a little overwrought.
While deep in the internal politics of Microsoft and the external politics of Paragon City, I completely missed the fact that we've launched a probe to Pluto.
Pluto!
You can track its progress here.
Holy Sharking Fit!
While deep in the internal politics of Microsoft and the external politics of Paragon City, I completely missed the fact that we've launched a probe to Pluto.
Pluto!
You can track its progress here.
Holy Sharking Fit!
The Art of the Insult
New Street Taunts
F R O M T H E A R C H I V E S
MY NEW STREETTAUNTS, VOL. I:THE THINGS WHICH IWILL DO TO YOU,IF YOU CROSS ME.
BY AMIE BARRODALE
- - - -
I will sedate you with a drug used for sedation, then I will remove your eyes, and insert two small sparrows into the house that is your skull. Then I will replace your eyeballs, careful to see that each eye is returned into its proper respective hole. You will awake thinking nothing has happened. You will feel right as rain.
Speaking of rain, friend, spring approaches, and the songbird sets about her singing, to attract mates. The male bird finds the female bird, and then the two birds make love, many times. The female lays her eggs and sits on them, to keep them warm. When the chicks hatch, it will get weird for you.
F R O M T H E A R C H I V E S
MY NEW STREETTAUNTS, VOL. I:THE THINGS WHICH IWILL DO TO YOU,IF YOU CROSS ME.
BY AMIE BARRODALE
- - - -
I will sedate you with a drug used for sedation, then I will remove your eyes, and insert two small sparrows into the house that is your skull. Then I will replace your eyeballs, careful to see that each eye is returned into its proper respective hole. You will awake thinking nothing has happened. You will feel right as rain.
Speaking of rain, friend, spring approaches, and the songbird sets about her singing, to attract mates. The male bird finds the female bird, and then the two birds make love, many times. The female lays her eggs and sits on them, to keep them warm. When the chicks hatch, it will get weird for you.
Saturday, July 15, 2006
The Thinglonger
I'm not saying I beleive this, it seems a little hokey, and I haven't read the actual paper this is based on.
However, I did notice a few years ago that my index and ring fingers are almost exactly the same length (my index finger is just a hair longer than my ring finger), and that this is unusual.
Now, there may be an explaination.
I will also point out that both of my siblings are a little dyslexic. Actually, my brother quite a bit more than my sister.
The study drew on work in the last few years which established that the levels of estrogen and testosterone a person has can be seen in the relative length of their index (second) and ring (fourth) fingers. The ratio of the lengths is set before birth and remains the same throughout life.
The length of fingers is genetically linked to the sex hormones, and a person with an index finger shorter than the ring finger will have had more testosterone while in the womb, and a person with an index finger longer than the ring finger will have had more estrogen. The difference in the lengths can be small – as little as two or three per cent – but important.
A survey of the finger lengths of over 100 male and female academics at the University by senior Psychology lecturer Dr Mark Brosnan has found that those men teaching hard science like mathematics and physics tend to have index fingers as long as their ring fingers, a marker for unusually high estrogen levels for males.
...
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However, I did notice a few years ago that my index and ring fingers are almost exactly the same length (my index finger is just a hair longer than my ring finger), and that this is unusual.
Now, there may be an explaination.
I will also point out that both of my siblings are a little dyslexic. Actually, my brother quite a bit more than my sister.
The study drew on work in the last few years which established that the levels of estrogen and testosterone a person has can be seen in the relative length of their index (second) and ring (fourth) fingers. The ratio of the lengths is set before birth and remains the same throughout life.
The length of fingers is genetically linked to the sex hormones, and a person with an index finger shorter than the ring finger will have had more testosterone while in the womb, and a person with an index finger longer than the ring finger will have had more estrogen. The difference in the lengths can be small – as little as two or three per cent – but important.
A survey of the finger lengths of over 100 male and female academics at the University by senior Psychology lecturer Dr Mark Brosnan has found that those men teaching hard science like mathematics and physics tend to have index fingers as long as their ring fingers, a marker for unusually high estrogen levels for males.
...
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Billys Ballon
Interesting, funny and ...well... a little disturbing. Try not to think about this the next time you go to the circus...
Friday, July 14, 2006
Origami
Not many people would think to make a statue of Cthulhu out of a sheet of paper, and yet .... there it is!
The FSM makes an appearence as well.
Thursday, July 13, 2006
Department of Buried Puns
On new, ultra-modern chemical weapons to be used against the "enemy".
Most bizarre among the plans was one for the development of an "aphrodisiac" chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to each other. Provoking widespread homosexual behaviour among troops would cause a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale, the proposal says.
blow to morale... hahaha
So my take is... what? we have to wait for a *war* for this????? Get this on the market *NOW*! I can make a fortune at the White Party!
Or the SuperBowl!
Most bizarre among the plans was one for the development of an "aphrodisiac" chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to each other. Provoking widespread homosexual behaviour among troops would cause a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale, the proposal says.
blow to morale... hahaha
So my take is... what? we have to wait for a *war* for this????? Get this on the market *NOW*! I can make a fortune at the White Party!
Or the SuperBowl!
Battlefield 2: (Very) Special Forces
This, btw, was my Father's Day present this year. I had no idea the uses it could find, video game, time waster, congressional evidence of terrorist activity...
Was an elite congressional intelligence committee shown video footage from an off-the-shelf retail game and told by the Pentagon and a highly-paid defense contractor that it was a jihadist creation designed to recruit and indoctrinate terrorists?It's looking more and more like that is the case.
The bizarre story began to unfold last week when Reuters reported that the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence was shown video footage of combat action which was represented as a user-modified version (or "mod") of Electronic Art's best-selling Battlefield 2, a modern-day military simulation which features combat between U.S. forces and those of the fictitious Middle East Coalition (MEC) as well as the People's Republic of China.
Reuters quoted a Pentagon official, Dan Devlin, as saying, "What we have seen is that any video game that comes out... (al Qaeda will) modify it and change the game for their needs."
...
According to Reuters, the U.S. government is paying SAIC $7 million to monitor Islamist web sites, which is where they apparently discovered a copy of the footage. However, the video can also readily be accessed via links found in the user forums of the popular Planet Battlefield site, operated by IGN Entertainment of Brisbane, California.
Was an elite congressional intelligence committee shown video footage from an off-the-shelf retail game and told by the Pentagon and a highly-paid defense contractor that it was a jihadist creation designed to recruit and indoctrinate terrorists?It's looking more and more like that is the case.
The bizarre story began to unfold last week when Reuters reported that the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence was shown video footage of combat action which was represented as a user-modified version (or "mod") of Electronic Art's best-selling Battlefield 2, a modern-day military simulation which features combat between U.S. forces and those of the fictitious Middle East Coalition (MEC) as well as the People's Republic of China.
Reuters quoted a Pentagon official, Dan Devlin, as saying, "What we have seen is that any video game that comes out... (al Qaeda will) modify it and change the game for their needs."
...
According to Reuters, the U.S. government is paying SAIC $7 million to monitor Islamist web sites, which is where they apparently discovered a copy of the footage. However, the video can also readily be accessed via links found in the user forums of the popular Planet Battlefield site, operated by IGN Entertainment of Brisbane, California.
The End of Dark Matter
To be blunt, I've always thought dark matter was a kludge. As it has grown from a weird theory in the 80s to a part of the Standard Model, I have watched with dismay. Why?
1) There is no evidence
2) The theory is ad-hoc
3) The theory has no real mathematical or physical basis (hence the constant spate of press releases about how the newest model in particle physics is dark matter
4) It is... inelegant
I have been a proponent of an alternate theory, that space is discrete not continuous and leads to a non-uniform Newtonian gravity field for mass, i.e. gravity gets weaker at long (and oddly very short) distances. This has it's own flaws of course
1) There is little evidence, and what there is is open to other explanations
2) It seems, again, ad hoc
3) it doesn't have a mathematical formalism
Until now...
This seems to be excellent progress toward turning this into actual science.
We have made the theory complete, connected the loose pieces of theory by one nice formula, and we think this formula has deep physics behind it. This theory is now fully specified so we can check it now."
This is the crucial part of any scientific theory: if it is capable of being tested and therefore falsified, it can be taken seriously. If scientists fail to knock it down, the theory gains credibility.
The new formula will be debated at a meeting at Edinburgh's Royal Observatory in April, when Dr Zhao and Dr Famaey, of the Free University of Brussels, will demonstrate their new formula on dark matter and gravity to an audience of experts from ten countries. They can expect a stormy ride.
"When people say 96 per cent of the universe is dark, that's an assumption," Dr Zhao said. "We don't need to introduce huge amounts of dark matter to explain the astronomical phenomena.
1) There is no evidence
2) The theory is ad-hoc
3) The theory has no real mathematical or physical basis (hence the constant spate of press releases about how the newest model in particle physics is dark matter
4) It is... inelegant
I have been a proponent of an alternate theory, that space is discrete not continuous and leads to a non-uniform Newtonian gravity field for mass, i.e. gravity gets weaker at long (and oddly very short) distances. This has it's own flaws of course
1) There is little evidence, and what there is is open to other explanations
2) It seems, again, ad hoc
3) it doesn't have a mathematical formalism
Until now...
This seems to be excellent progress toward turning this into actual science.
We have made the theory complete, connected the loose pieces of theory by one nice formula, and we think this formula has deep physics behind it. This theory is now fully specified so we can check it now."
This is the crucial part of any scientific theory: if it is capable of being tested and therefore falsified, it can be taken seriously. If scientists fail to knock it down, the theory gains credibility.
The new formula will be debated at a meeting at Edinburgh's Royal Observatory in April, when Dr Zhao and Dr Famaey, of the Free University of Brussels, will demonstrate their new formula on dark matter and gravity to an audience of experts from ten countries. They can expect a stormy ride.
"When people say 96 per cent of the universe is dark, that's an assumption," Dr Zhao said. "We don't need to introduce huge amounts of dark matter to explain the astronomical phenomena.
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
As They Sow, So Shall They Reap
When you make it a point to try and remove and facility for incrudulity from your followers, it isn't surprising that they think everything is true.
To be honest, I'm not sure this isn't some kind of meta-parody.
I mean, *everyone* knows the Onion is a joke. Right???
here
Best comment in the comment section so far:
I'm pro life, but sweet Jesus you're an idiot. For your next post, how about a passionate speech on the need to immediately free Prince Albert from the can?
To be honest, I'm not sure this isn't some kind of meta-parody.
I mean, *everyone* knows the Onion is a joke. Right???
here
Best comment in the comment section so far:
I'm pro life, but sweet Jesus you're an idiot. For your next post, how about a passionate speech on the need to immediately free Prince Albert from the can?
Monday, July 10, 2006
The Four Most Dangerous Words in the English Language
Good advice on investing from the Cassandra class:
"The best investing advice is simple, timeless, paradoxical -- and often ignored. Yes, ignored, because so many investors cannot make decisions. Lacking self-confidence, they rely on the random flow of breaking news. That overwhelming rush of new information, all of it short-term, drowns out the investment advice to which we should be adhering. Those timeless principles demand that we ignore breaking news and take personal responsibility, a very scary idea for investors who have lost their self-confidence.
This message has been summarized by the Chinese master Lao Tzu: "Those who know do not speak, those who speak do not know." He offered this investment advice three thousand years ago in the Tao Te Ching. Test it on any guru: Gross, Siegel, Bogle, Cramer, Bernanke, Paulson, and yes, even me. Of course, if investors took Lao Tzu's advice, Wall Street would be out of business. You'd be in command!"
Those words? This time it's different.
"The best investing advice is simple, timeless, paradoxical -- and often ignored. Yes, ignored, because so many investors cannot make decisions. Lacking self-confidence, they rely on the random flow of breaking news. That overwhelming rush of new information, all of it short-term, drowns out the investment advice to which we should be adhering. Those timeless principles demand that we ignore breaking news and take personal responsibility, a very scary idea for investors who have lost their self-confidence.
This message has been summarized by the Chinese master Lao Tzu: "Those who know do not speak, those who speak do not know." He offered this investment advice three thousand years ago in the Tao Te Ching. Test it on any guru: Gross, Siegel, Bogle, Cramer, Bernanke, Paulson, and yes, even me. Of course, if investors took Lao Tzu's advice, Wall Street would be out of business. You'd be in command!"
Those words? This time it's different.
Friday, July 07, 2006
Business Cards
An interesting view of business cards:
6) Break the rules, particularly corporate ones (but don’t get fired). I had two cards that weren’t approved by the corporate branding department. They always got conversations started (one had a drawing done by Hugh Macleod — I made those specifically for speaking at Google’s Zeitgeist conference. The cards matched my slides I used at that talk. The business cards were so popular that people came and asked for them cause someone else showed them mine).
7) Be different. One of my favorite cards? Matt Mullenweg’s. It says simply “1. Go to google.com. 2. Type in “Matt.” 3. Press “I’m feeling lucky.” (It also has his phone number on it). Or, Kelly Goto’s card looks like a BART ticket (subway in San Francisco).
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I have found this to be completely true. When I got to Microsoft, I had a number of "controversal" cards made up (until the facists in corporate stopped me). One said "Rocket Scientist" and another said "Evil Genius". All in good fun. Then, HR got a hold of me and gave me the following rules:
Allowed:
Name
Standard Microsoft Title as listed in the GAL (Global Address List)
Prefix Dr. or suffix Ph.D. (but not both)
Phone Number
Cell Phone Number
Corporate FAX Number
Corporate Address as listed in the GAL
I am allowed to have cards made in Braille
Not Allowed:
Anything with the words CEO, CFO, Gates, Ballmer, Mad, Evil, Chief, Love, McLove, Mc Sassy, Pope, Sieg Heil, President, Nastiest, Horse, Savage, Bottom, Top, Go-Go-Gaget, Super, Super Science, Super Duper, Father, Reverend, King, Queen, Czar, Master, Commander or Most Brutal
Me, I still think this leaves a *lot* of room. Unfortunately, all my cards orders need to be co-signed by my HR representative.
Sigh....
6) Break the rules, particularly corporate ones (but don’t get fired). I had two cards that weren’t approved by the corporate branding department. They always got conversations started (one had a drawing done by Hugh Macleod — I made those specifically for speaking at Google’s Zeitgeist conference. The cards matched my slides I used at that talk. The business cards were so popular that people came and asked for them cause someone else showed them mine).
7) Be different. One of my favorite cards? Matt Mullenweg’s. It says simply “1. Go to google.com. 2. Type in “Matt.” 3. Press “I’m feeling lucky.” (It also has his phone number on it). Or, Kelly Goto’s card looks like a BART ticket (subway in San Francisco).
(via)
I have found this to be completely true. When I got to Microsoft, I had a number of "controversal" cards made up (until the facists in corporate stopped me). One said "Rocket Scientist" and another said "Evil Genius". All in good fun. Then, HR got a hold of me and gave me the following rules:
Allowed:
Name
Standard Microsoft Title as listed in the GAL (Global Address List)
Prefix Dr. or suffix Ph.D. (but not both)
Phone Number
Cell Phone Number
Corporate FAX Number
Corporate Address as listed in the GAL
I am allowed to have cards made in Braille
Not Allowed:
Anything with the words CEO, CFO, Gates, Ballmer, Mad, Evil, Chief, Love, McLove, Mc Sassy, Pope, Sieg Heil, President, Nastiest, Horse, Savage, Bottom, Top, Go-Go-Gaget, Super, Super Science, Super Duper, Father, Reverend, King, Queen, Czar, Master, Commander or Most Brutal
Me, I still think this leaves a *lot* of room. Unfortunately, all my cards orders need to be co-signed by my HR representative.
Sigh....
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Blogger Graphics
This is pretty cool, a real time connection mapper for your website.
Here
Here is my art site, TirionGFX
and here is this site
TirionGFX blog
Very cool and useful in webs site design
Here
Here is my art site, TirionGFX
and here is this site
TirionGFX blog
Very cool and useful in webs site design
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Time Cube!
Back in graduate school, I was the department librarian. It was a mildly boring chore, but I also got to be the recipient of a lot of "self-published" papers folks felt needed to be seen by the scientific community. Most of these were harmless, a handful wacky and one or two... well... one or two your really had to think about for an hour or two to find the crackpottery. Or at least I did.
PZ Meyers, Science blogger extraordinaire, is getting some interesting mail in the crackpot range:
EVOLUTION IS ENTIRELY FALLACIOUS.
MEIOSIS CASTRATES EVOLUTION.KARYOTYPES DISPROVE EVOLUTION.THE BASIC MECHANISMS SAID TO BE DRIVING EVOLUTION ARE ENTIRELY INADEQUATE,UTTERLY INCAPABLE OF PRODUCING NOVEL KARYOTYPES,NOVEL FEATURES,NOVEL FUNCTIONS.
1)EVOLUTION'S PHYLOGENIES ARE TOTALLY INCOMPATIBLE WITH KARYOTYPES;
2)THERE IS NO MECHANISM TO GENERATE NOVEL KARYOTYPES THAT ARE FERTILE(meiosis,homology,synapsis,centromeres etc.);MEIOSIS CASTRATES EVOLUTION BY FAILING TO PROCEED IF ANY CHROMOSOMES FAIL TO PAIR UP WITH HOMOLOGOUS PARTNERS.SEXUALLY REPRODUCIBLE KARYOTYPES THEREBY FIXED!EVOLUTIONARY PROGRESSION OF CHROMOSOME NUMBERS IS TOTALLY INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE MECHANISMS OF MEIOSIS.
ORIGIN OF KARYOTYPES WILL NEVER BE EXPLAINED BY EVOLUTION.
3)KARYOTYPES CANNOT TOLERATE ADDITION OR REMOVAL OF NOVEL OR NATIVE CHROMOSOMES;KARYOTYPES ARE TOTALLY INCOMPATIBLE WITH EVOLUTION.
4)FULLY INTEGRATED,EXQUISITELY ORCHESTRATED,INTRICATELY INTERLINKED FUNCTIONS OF CHROMOSOMES REQUIRE INHERITANCE OF COMPLETE AND ORIGINAL KARYOTYPES-TOTALLY INCOMPATIBLE WITH EVOLUTION;
5)SHEER SIZES OF CHROMOSOMES DEFY EVOLUTIONARY CONJECTURE
6)EVOLUTION CANNOT PRODUCE NOVEL FEATURES OR FUNCTIONS(too many separate but simultaneous and synergistic mutations would be required-see below)
meiosis renders evolution infertile
meiosis will not reproduce unmatched chromosomes etc.etc.etc.
If follows the standard format for eyecharts, big text getting smaller and smaller as it goes down (with some interesting color variations I've never seen before). You know, just like the papers in PhysRevD. Full text here
One of the readers points out the similarity to a famous piece of internet foolishness:
Judging by his formatting and typographical preferences, I'm surprised he didn't claim that evolution is also impossible because of Time Cube.
Posted by: Sean Foley July 4, 2006 02:57 PM
Okay, so here's what I am thinking: I should start a blog catalog of these type of obscuria nonsensica. Categorized them not by subject matter, but by insanity style:
Category 1: logical conclusion reached by ignoring incontinent facts
Category 2: illogical conclusion reached by false assumptions
Category 3: logical conclusion reached with a pure state of self consistent but wrong assumptions
Category 3a: Must propose new physics/laws of nature/mathematics
Category 3b: 3a + must also be rejected by journals/PhD committee
Category 4: illogical conclusion reached through dogma
Category 4a: Must have interesting fonts/capitalization
Category 4b: Cat 4a + Must contain supervillian-esque rant about the scientific community
Category4c: Cat 4b + Must contain "why won't you respond are you too afraid/stupid/closeminded/offyour meds" rant
Category 5: illogical conclusion reached by setting an epileptic chimp in front of a keyboard and posting the result as "proof"
So, on the Horvath scale, FoxNews weighs in at a mere Cat2 , PZs writer scores a full 4C, and the current administration's war policy comes in at ... well... I think that's kind of obvious.
TIME CUBE!
PZ Meyers, Science blogger extraordinaire, is getting some interesting mail in the crackpot range:
EVOLUTION IS ENTIRELY FALLACIOUS.
MEIOSIS CASTRATES EVOLUTION.KARYOTYPES DISPROVE EVOLUTION.THE BASIC MECHANISMS SAID TO BE DRIVING EVOLUTION ARE ENTIRELY INADEQUATE,UTTERLY INCAPABLE OF PRODUCING NOVEL KARYOTYPES,NOVEL FEATURES,NOVEL FUNCTIONS.
1)EVOLUTION'S PHYLOGENIES ARE TOTALLY INCOMPATIBLE WITH KARYOTYPES;
2)THERE IS NO MECHANISM TO GENERATE NOVEL KARYOTYPES THAT ARE FERTILE(meiosis,homology,synapsis,centromeres etc.);MEIOSIS CASTRATES EVOLUTION BY FAILING TO PROCEED IF ANY CHROMOSOMES FAIL TO PAIR UP WITH HOMOLOGOUS PARTNERS.SEXUALLY REPRODUCIBLE KARYOTYPES THEREBY FIXED!EVOLUTIONARY PROGRESSION OF CHROMOSOME NUMBERS IS TOTALLY INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE MECHANISMS OF MEIOSIS.
ORIGIN OF KARYOTYPES WILL NEVER BE EXPLAINED BY EVOLUTION.
3)KARYOTYPES CANNOT TOLERATE ADDITION OR REMOVAL OF NOVEL OR NATIVE CHROMOSOMES;KARYOTYPES ARE TOTALLY INCOMPATIBLE WITH EVOLUTION.
4)FULLY INTEGRATED,EXQUISITELY ORCHESTRATED,INTRICATELY INTERLINKED FUNCTIONS OF CHROMOSOMES REQUIRE INHERITANCE OF COMPLETE AND ORIGINAL KARYOTYPES-TOTALLY INCOMPATIBLE WITH EVOLUTION;
5)SHEER SIZES OF CHROMOSOMES DEFY EVOLUTIONARY CONJECTURE
6)EVOLUTION CANNOT PRODUCE NOVEL FEATURES OR FUNCTIONS(too many separate but simultaneous and synergistic mutations would be required-see below)
meiosis renders evolution infertile
meiosis will not reproduce unmatched chromosomes etc.etc.etc.
If follows the standard format for eyecharts, big text getting smaller and smaller as it goes down (with some interesting color variations I've never seen before). You know, just like the papers in PhysRevD. Full text here
One of the readers points out the similarity to a famous piece of internet foolishness:
Judging by his formatting and typographical preferences, I'm surprised he didn't claim that evolution is also impossible because of Time Cube.
Posted by: Sean Foley July 4, 2006 02:57 PM
Okay, so here's what I am thinking: I should start a blog catalog of these type of obscuria nonsensica. Categorized them not by subject matter, but by insanity style:
Category 1: logical conclusion reached by ignoring incontinent facts
Category 2: illogical conclusion reached by false assumptions
Category 3: logical conclusion reached with a pure state of self consistent but wrong assumptions
Category 3a: Must propose new physics/laws of nature/mathematics
Category 3b: 3a + must also be rejected by journals/PhD committee
Category 4: illogical conclusion reached through dogma
Category 4a: Must have interesting fonts/capitalization
Category 4b: Cat 4a + Must contain supervillian-esque rant about the scientific community
Category4c: Cat 4b + Must contain "why won't you respond are you too afraid/stupid/closeminded/offyour meds" rant
Category 5: illogical conclusion reached by setting an epileptic chimp in front of a keyboard and posting the result as "proof"
So, on the Horvath scale, FoxNews weighs in at a mere Cat2 , PZs writer scores a full 4C, and the current administration's war policy comes in at ... well... I think that's kind of obvious.
TIME CUBE!
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