Jake Allen’s Ockhamist.com

“Lies my college professor told me” is a worthwile, if provocative, article on American cultural politics in the Academy. It is short and to the point. At least two of his main points are likely to divide conservatives.
UPDATE:
Steven N. Fettig does a nice follow-up to this entry, with first-hand testimony against such lies.

NYTimes is trying to set-up Microsoft (not, by the way, MikeRoweSoft.com) against Google as the next Redmond vs Silicon Valley showdown, a la massive lawsuits Netscape-style.
While MS-everything might try to leverage its massive power in the OS market to overtake the Internet Search market, which is probably legal as yet, more likely Gates & Co. […]

Buy Valentine’s Day gifts from Amazon by first clicking through my site. Search for “fresh flowers”. Amazon is cheaper than 1800flowers.com, flowers.com, or ftd.com.
Note: if you do not have a sweetheart, I will be your sweetheart. Simply click through my site to buy me things. You’re welcome, dear.

We do not compromise history education for those who deny the Holocaust; why should we compromise biology education for those who deny evolution?
Problem is: we do compromise history.
Madness!

In general terms, wonder occurs when someone encounters a spiritual or natural phenomenom that he has never met before. . . . Another kind of wonder assomes control over a man when he takes up the subject of theology. . . . Theology is necessarily the logic of wonders.”
-Karl Bath, lecture to Princeton University, 1962
Whether […]

David Talcott, enemy of freedom, thinks that I was a big, mean bully. I pushed him around the playgroung and took his lunch money. Really, he had no choice but to tell the teacher.
Or . . .
Maybe he just thinks that he is living in Geneva, and needed a taste of the […]

UK and AU papers are reporting on the London college kid who hacked into the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (45 miles west of Chicago, not to be confused with Argonne National Labs, where Top Secret stuff is done, also near Chicago) to store mp3s and divx movies. The kid got 200 hrs of community […]

A close Mel Gibson associate, Alan Nierob, leaked to the NYTimes that the scene in The Passion where the Jews cry out “His blood be on us and on our children,” to Pilate’s query will be deleted, since it screened badly. The line from Matthew 27:25 has been used by Western anti-Semites, and Gibson […]

I got a new computer today. Whoa. Whoa.
Whoa. Athalon 2800. 512DDR266. 128DDR video. Whoa, big difference. I just turned it on and the desktop came up as fast as turning on an FM radio. Web pages are flying (I had been unawared that my old cpu slowed down regular http, but […]

Blandus Rex (ally) has changes his clothes, as has Metzger (enemy), check them out. Both of the moves are an improvement.
For those of you who wish an explaination of the allies/enemies designations, you will have to wait. I will give you this, though, that it is a bit like a video game. […]

The problem with throwing food on your own floor is, you have to clean it up, or it divides and conquors.

My little sister #2, Mary Allen, is an oboe major at Illinois Wesleyan University. Here is a selection from a recent concert that featured her (mp3, 1.4 mb). She is very good, and I am very proud of her. Although I am not in the know, I am told that she has […]

UK’s Labour Party (they’re like Democrats, but British) may give PM Tony Blair a weblog, or blog, presumably based on the success of South Dakota’s own Tom Daschle weblog (enemy) and Ockhamist.com.
In other news, Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne is a great video game. It is even better than […]