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After a couple of days in which finals have suppressed my output, I’m now gonna be gone for some time more.
I think it makes sense to officially go on hiatus for the moment.
I don’t know when I’ll be back posting. Maybe not until January.
Happy Holidays.

Congratulations are in order for everyone on the UC Berkeley Men’s Ultimate Frisbee Team for successfully defeating a bunch of co-ops in the First Annual(?) UC Berkeley Downhill Soap Box Racing Championship. Teams were only allowed to scrounge for parts and the car had to be built within the period beginning friday afternoon and [...]

Ralph Nader’s advertising watchdog Commercial Alert has written a letter to Emory University President James Wagner decrying the study of “neuromarketing” conducted at that University.
The letter suggests that by allowing the marketing consultancy firm BrightHouse use of their fMRI equipment for neuromarketing studies Emory is in danger of losing their public funding.
Emory has, rightly I [...]

Andrew Sullivan rightly dispenses with the idea that religion should play any major role in Presidential Politics.
At issue is Howard Dean’s conversion from Episcopalian to Congregationalist over the construction of bike path his Church opposed. Mr. Sullivan thinks this crass, and indicative of a certain godlessness. However, his criticism misses the context [...]

Let it be said:
Electable.
Unelectable.
Electable.
Unelectable.
Whoosh!

From Meet the Press, transcript December 7.
SEN. CLINTON: I have said no and no and I’m trying to think of different ways of saying no and no. And I hope that in ‘08, I’ll be supporting a Democratic president for re-election.
She must be be running.
(Via No More Mister Nice Blog)

The National Human Genome Institute (NHGRI) has made available the complete Chimpanzee genome.
This data will be incredibly useful in all sorts of important ways:
People and chimpanzees have roughly 98 percent of their DNA in common, and many researchers want to know what the genomic differences are. These could help explain why some diseases affect people [...]

This site has one of those useless political quizes that tell you what you want to hear. This one tells you which candidate you ought to support come November.
The results are about right, except for that nutso Lyndon LaRouche. They even got the Dean/Clark 1-2 punch right on the money.
Your Results:
1. Your ideal [...]

Far be it for me to promote some product of that odious Junior College Stanford. Worse if it is a creation of the Stanford Ultimate Frisbee Team.
But I have to admit this ultimate frisbee video game is pretty cool.
Better, your team is always blue and your opponents always red. I guess they like [...]

Proving some old saying about cockroaches scurrying from the direct and abusive daylight sun, the Egyptian library that had previously displayed the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in the same case as the Torah will now remove the forgeries.
There is a bit more to this story. There is something more than curious.
Here is [...]