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Pimp Your Science !

Cosmic Variance , a blog on Discover Magazine, had a post about Mr.John McCain’s snide and sarcastic remark on his Twitroll  "nothing says new jobs for average Americans like investing in astronomy" – he quips. Cosmic Variance puts it down as an appeal to a feeling many average citizens have "Scientists are not You and [...]

Explanation

In me, there meet a combination of antithetical elements, that are at eternal war with one another, driven hither by objective influences, tither by subjective emotions, wafted one moment into blazing day by mocking hope, plunged the next moment into the Severian darkness of intangible despair, I am but the living ganglion of irreconcilable antagonisms. [...]

Blog gets OpenID

I’ve been tweaking the blog, and barring my inability to find themes that are simple , readable and modern looking at the same time, for now I’ve decided to stick with the Journalist 1.9 theme. What I did manage to implement in a jiffy, is the OpenID system on this blog. This means that users [...]

How to converse with experts and engage in well, engaging discussions

Everyone has browsed across websites and forums that all too often are riddled with trolls and spammers. Lets face it, despite all the information out there on the internet, it is hard to wade through the trash to communicate with people who run important official websites , code useful specialist software or are acclaimed thinkers, [...]

The Migration

I’ve spent the last hour trying to figure out a way to migrate my posts from the WordPress blog to Blogger. After a few months with WordPress, I am wondering why I ever left Blogger. WordPress is a more advanced hosting platform , no doubt – but the free service they have is dismal. I [...]

A confession in disguise?

“Nature and Nature’s Laws lay hid in night; God said, ‘Let Newton be!’ — And all was light.” (The Pope)

Philip K. Dick Quotations

Fans of sci-fi have certainly heard of Philip K. Dick, using non-conventional , often comical titles like “Dr.Bloodmoney” and “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” to mask the extreme philosophical content of his books. So here goes, a tribute to the authour, some of his profound quotations :   “You will be required to do [...]

Pretty Woman

Trudging through YouTube, I found another classic….enjoy! [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=IdeicjnbdDQ]

Scheisse! Dieses ist kaputt!

You’re going about your life, with a pretty set vision of what you want to do….and suddenly you have a million things to worry about. Unnecessary hassles, that occur not through any carelessness , but out of chance (or so I believe). There are some problems in life that you just know mean nothing and [...]