Winter’s Haven

Here’s something you don’t see on the blogosphere every day: Abel Pharmboy liveblogs his vasectomy.

All too often, people talk about market competition as if it were opposed to cooperation — as if capitalists were only a step away from resorting to napalm and land mines. The Economist’s Free Exchange blog douses that burning pile of stupid with some cool, clear analytic philosophy:
The competition at the heart of capitalism is [...]

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 [...]

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: [...]

I need to buy a crowbar, stock up on canned food and water, put in some practice time at the shooting range, and go running more often and for longer distances. Doing so will up my chances to 79%, supposedly.
My brother Stillman scored quite a bit better than I did. Terre Haute, Indiana [...]

Some blogs offer daily collections of links; I offer them at highly irregular intervals. But today is a link day! Rejoice!

Will Wilkinson explains why it is silly to claim that materialism is incompatible with free will or morality.
An Angry Toxicologist demonstrates that Natural != Safe. The moral of the post: stay far, far away [...]

I recently discovered the comic strip Thad Guy, which might be described as a love child of Dinosaur Comics and xkcd. Thad Guy often takes a comically twisted look at substantive philosophical issues. Here’s one of my favorites:

…and that guy’s dangerous-looking goatee really ties the strip together.

From Mike the Technobuddist:

Although my blog has undeniably just hit a new low, I actually feel very liberated. No matter how wrong or inane my future posts may be, I’ll always be able to cling to the fact that at least they won’t be L0Lcats.

This clipping was taken from the BBC News Front Page on March 31, 2007.

The irony in that juxtaposition is more delicious than a chocolate Jesus.

I’ve been watching the X-Files recently, and I’ve slowly come to the realization that the entire show is one enormous conspiracy. A product placement conspiracy. But how, you ask, can product placement be a conspiracy? After all, isn’t it common knowledge that advertisers pay to have their products appear in movies and TV shows? This [...]