Winter’s Haven

The Bad Astronomer condemns Ron Paul for reasons which are… politically misguided. Namely, Paul is a creationist.
I think I speak for a lot of atheists libertarians when I say that, yes, Ron Paul’s views on evolution/creationism are awful, but in spite of that I’d still be fairly overjoyed to see him in the Oval Office. [...]

My mobile phone has been having problems — I couldn’t call out or access voicemail. I now have a different service, and a new phone number. Email me for the new phone number; I’m not going to post it online.

From Utah, a correspondent for The Economist relates that

Ironically, one of the worst places [for Mormon missonaries] to be sent on a mission is the American Bible belt, says another of the students: “People there have had guns pulled on them or dogs set on them.”

Think about that. Of all the many places in the [...]

Is there a cure for the condition where you are perpetually dissatisfied with your computer’s wallpaper image, no matter how many different images you try? Is there even a name for this condition?

After sarcastically venting my frustration that my own impeccably sensible ideas are so are out of the political mainstream, I was reminded of a recent post from Megan McArdle. She doesn’t understand why so many liberals oppose funding education through vouchers, rather than having the government provide it directly, as it currently does. And, frankly, [...]

This poor creature is one of the many cats who have been taken in by Canonical’s devious business practices. Free gets expensive quickly when your t-shirt becomes obsolete every six months.
(Yes, I am ashamed to say that this LOLcat is original. But publicly humiliating myself is a small price to pay for protecting feline consumer [...]

Reporting on the “pay-as-you-go” budget rules adopted by the Democratic majority in Congress, Edmund L. Andrews of the New York Times brings us the news that
Senate Democrats face an agonizing choice in the days ahead: find a way to raise at least $50 billion in new taxes, or undermine their most important rule for [...]

One of the best things about Kubuntu (and other Debian-based Linux distrubutions) is the packaging system, which gives you easy access to an enormous collection of software libre. And sometimes while browsing though the collection of available packages, you discover fantastic little programs that you hadn’t even been looking for.
My surprise find for today: “python-empathy: [...]

How to install a 2.5-inch (laptop size) hard drive in a 3.5-inch (desktop size) drive bay:

Search locally or on the internet for an appropriate mounting bracket designed for mounting a 2.5-inch disk in a 3.5-inch bay. Buy it.
Shut down and unplug the computer into which the hard disk will be installed. Open up the computer’s [...]

What. The. Fuck.
Police in Orlando, Florida claim “a typical prostitute that’s HIV-positive could potentially infect more than 18,000 people a year.”
Taking into account HIV transmission probabilities, Classically Liberal estimates that SuperProsti would have to serve at least “9 million customers [per year]. Disney World only manages 27 million.”