The Michigan State University (MSU) chapter of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) has announced that it will be hosting a lecture by Jared Taylor in March. Taylor, who is not particularly well-known in the mainstream, is a prominent racist who’s New Century Foundation and American Renaissance publication are devoted to pursuing “scientific” justifications for racism.
Daily Archives: December 29, 2007
Good Morning. Feed me.
This is exactly what happens in our house every morning, except that there are two of them:
[hat tip: Tangled Up in Blue Guy]Also in Tangled Up, this important post on No Beer in America.
Friday Ark 171
Is here, at The Modulator
George Carlin, Touched by an Atheist
Linux Rules
From Slashot:“Computers and handheld devices running default GNU Linux or Unix OSes have swept Amazon’s ‘best of’ list for 2007, according BusinessWire.com for 28 December 2007. Best selling computer? The Nokia Internet Tablet PC, running Linux. Best reviewed computer? The Apple MacBook Pro notebook PC. Most wished for computer? Asus Eee 4G-Galaxy 7-inch PC mobile Internet device, which comes with Xandros Linux pre-installed. And last, but not least, the most frequently gifted computer: The Apple MacBook notebook PC.”wOOt!!!
Rock Likely to Hit Mars, NOT
The NEAR project … they are the ones that keep track of objects in space that might hit us … now predicts that the asteroid earlier reported to be on its way to Mars will likely miss the Red Planet. Have a look: Continue reading Rock Likely to Hit Mars, NOT
I told you so … open source is better.
You can’t use closed source proprietary software such as Mathematica for research because that would cause there to be a Black Box in your Research Methodology?But you didn’t listen.Now, Miquel Pais (via the Quantum Pontiff) reports a bug in Mathematica that can’t be understood because you can’t look under the hood.This is a disaster. But not an unexpected disaster.You must now all switch to Open Source software for your research purposes. I’m not kidding. Get on that right away.That is all.
Netscape is dead. Long live Netscape.
Netscape was the first browser. Then came along Internet Explorer, and Microsoft did all sorts of evil things to Netscape to run it out of existence. But it didn’t work. Netscape continued to exist, and along the way, AOL acquired Netscape as a commercial product, and Mozilla branched off of Netscape as an Open Source product. Mozilla gave birth to Firefox and Swiftfox, and today, Firefox or some form of it rules. Open Source Wins.Today, AOL has announced that it will no longer develop Netscape.We can get all weepy and worried about this event, but is is actually incredibly good news. Netscape ushered in, facilitated, caused, whatever adjective you like, both Internet Browsing (which is still there) and the Mozilla Open Source project, which is still there. The fact that the commercial fork of this long and intense effort is the part that is being retired is the best possible outcome.The browser is dead. Long live the browser.
Ron Paul is Out of the Running
According to the New Hampshire State Republican Party and an Associated Press report, Republican presidential candidate and Texas Congressman Ron Paul will be excluded from an upcoming forum of Republican candidates to be broadcast by Fox News on January 6, 2008.
My Linux Calendar
On steroids…. Continue reading My Linux Calendar
I and the Bird #65
Compare and contrast.
These two videos are part of a “year in review post” that I’m including in my Review of the Year in Review Posts. My review will be supplied at the end of the year, like it should be. But, I thought you might enjoy seeing these videos sooner. Continue reading Compare and contrast.