Archive for December, 2006

95 percent of Americans had premarital sex??

Friday, December 22nd, 2006 Posted in Politics, Rant, Science, Society | 1 Comment »

Now this is both scary and sad! The study indicates that 95 percent of American's have had premarital sex. Now if this is actually true (I'll explain my skepticism later), it ... Read more..

The internatianal value of the US military

Thursday, December 21st, 2006 Posted in Politics, Society | 7 Comments »

In a recent article by Orson Scott Card (I know... I'm obsessed), he talks about how our civilization can fall. Not just the United States, but the international economy ... Read more..

Honoring Those Who Died - Orson Scott Card

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006 Posted in Rant, Society | 1 Comment »

Brother Orson continues to pump out some good article. In this one, he proposes something I could really get behind: Here is what I propose. Forget the constitutional amendment ... Read more..

E-petitions warning (from snopes.com)

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006 Posted in Comedy, Family, Internet, Rant | No Comments »

So today, I got the following email from a relative: Pass this one on to all your e-mail buddies and take the time to read the Snopes.com article listed at ... Read more..

Obesity warnings on clothes

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006 Posted in Rant, Science, Society | No Comments »

Come on! This has got to be a joke! In this article, some British scientists are trying to get obesity warning labels on clothing designed for overweight people. Now, ... Read more..

The ultimate hybrid gadget

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006 Posted in Gadgets, New Technology | No Comments »

Samsung recently announced the future launch of a pretty amazing product, the Samsung SPH-P9000.  Sporting itself as a PDA, laptop, cell phone and media center all in one gadget, it ... Read more..

From SuSE Linux to Ubuntu

Monday, December 18th, 2006 Posted in Linux, SUSE Linux, Technology, Ubuntu | No Comments »

One of my coworkers is a huge Ubuntu fan. He tried SuSE for a while, but eventually went back to Ubuntu. He had a lot of success with ... Read more..

Greylisting — one more tool in the arsenal against SPAM

Sunday, December 17th, 2006 Posted in Internet, Linux, New Technology | No Comments »

I ran across the following link the other day and was very interested. Postfix and Postgrey: A proactive approach to spam filtering For those not familiar with Postfix, it's an MTA (Mail ... Read more..

I’m coming out of the closet… I’m slightly left

Saturday, December 16th, 2006 Posted in Politics, Society | 4 Comments »

Following the example of my buddy Ryan Byrd, I took the Political Compass Questionnaire and lo and behold, I'm slightly left: Economic Left/Right: -1.00 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.87 So I'm in the Authoritarian Left ... Read more..

How true it is

Saturday, December 9th, 2006 Posted in Politics, Society | 5 Comments »

I ran into this quote today, by H.L. Mencken: "Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - ... Read more..