Jake Allen’s Ockhamist.com

I am giving the Gmail a test run. You can help.
jakeallen@gmail.com
spam should get filtered, unlike jake(at)ockhamist.com

Day was shining radiantly upon the town then, and the bells were going for the morning work. Domestic fires were not yet lighted, and the high chimneys had the sky to themselves. Puffing out their poisonous volumes, they would not be long in hiding it; but, for half an hour, some of the many windows […]

The gmail is working out great. Thank you to those who emailed me and tested it. again, it is jakeallen@gmail.com
I am baiting the spam by putting it on the web, to see if the much touted spam filtering of google works. we’ll see.
Also, fellow Hillsdale College grad Kevin Bowden has started a […]

Madness!

I recently faxed a resume to a radio program. A week and a half later, after I had given up on the job, they mailed me a nice rejection letter. Really, I felt better for having received it.
It was a form letter, of course, but really done well.
Righteous.

25% (that’s 1 in 4, mind you) of the world’s population is fat. Not overweight, mind you, fat. It’s a global epidemic.
Will Atkins work in India?
Madness!

Curves for Women, the national chain of workout centers that feature circuit-training, no mirrors, and no men, has been accused by some in the media of supporting pro-life causes. They have also been accused of poisoning the well, and sacrificing a goat in the forest.
Fewer infant murders and slimmer women nationwide . . . […]

Seriously, all the cool people name their son Jacob.
Way back in the 1970s, “Jacob” was the 83rd most popular name. In the 1980s, “Jacob” was the 35th most popular name. In 1990 it was the 20th, then, 16, 15, 11, 7, 5, 3, 2, 2, and has been the number one name given to […]

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
-Napoleon Bonaparte

Proogle is a neat new tool which gives you the pagerank of the webpages in your search. Find out the pagerank of your own page. I am a 4/10 (and rising, I hope). It’s very interesting, and supposed to be more accurate than the Google Toolbar. I was researching a write-up, […]

Today, May 10th, is the birthday of J. C. Ryle (1816-1900), English Christian author whose works are still popular today.

John Allen, Jr. (no relation), is the National Catholic Reporter’s man at the Vatican. He is the epitome of self-made journalism, and as an American goes where European journalists can’t. His intimate relationship with Vatican politicians and bureaucrats make him the go-to guy for Catholic news. He breaks the stories, and put […]