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Concentrated collection of nature-woo-Fire Your Doctor!
This is really appalling-“Doctor Yourself”:
DoctorYourself.com
World’s Largest HEALTH HOMESTEADING website
If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. This especially includes your health.
What is this, hmm? This is the work of one “Andrew Saul, PhD” 1 and what a piece of work it is. ( Read more... ) -
Notes from the commute
Saw a sign on a van advertising halal chicken. Four chickens for five pounds. That’s quite terrifying. To the point that I wonder how it’s possible to undercut all the supermarkets with such a small market in the first place. Sounds rather suspicious to me.
Doesn’t matter anyway. Not touching cheap meat any more if I can help it.
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In ur cultur, subvertin ur definishuns
There’s a long and winding thread going on at Respectful Insolence, where the commenters are thrashing around the subject of “Jewishness” and “Judaism”. Are they different? Can one be an atheist/secular Jew?
Many people, certainly in the US, claim this is a very normal state of affairs. Here, for example, are Coturnix’s thoughts ( Read more... ) -
Homeopathy: Removing criticism increases the effect
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. The history of lawyers' letters used to remove material from the internet never go in favour of the lawyers' clients. This is called the Streisand effect.
The Society of Homepaths are one group who have utterly failed to learn this lesson. David Colquhuon (himself no stranger to receiving legal ( Read more... ) -
Completely barmy
Muslim medical students get picky:Some Muslim medical students are refusing to attend lectures or answer exam questions on alcohol-related or sexually transmitted diseases because they claim it offends their religious beliefs ( Read more... ) -
Dead man's switch and computer security
This is slightly related to my post of the other day about email authentication and integrity. A warrant canary:rsync.net Warrant Canary ( Read more... ) -
Dangerous animals at fault for missing post
The BBC reports:Wildcat strikes plague Royal Mail
I thought postmen were generally plagued by large dogs, but I suppose this is the effect of XKCD from a couple of days ago. -
Avoid success at all costs
There is a joke in the computing industry, with regard to bugs, of programming being like sex 1-“one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life”.
The talk given by Simon Peyton Jones on Haskell’s 15th birthday mentioned:
A smallish, rather pointy-headed user-base makes Haskell nimble ( Read more... ) -
How Romeo and Juliet defend themselves, or Email authentication
The next instalment in this exciting saga of family feuds and cyberwarfare. Tybalt has sent an invitation email to Romeo, impersonating Juliet in order to tempt Romeo to reveal himself.
Romeo opens his mail and finds this message waiting for him:
From: “Juliet” juliet@capulet.net
To: “Romeo” romeo@montague.net
Subject: secret ( Read more... ) -
Expletive infixing - do you agree with Wikipedia?
Expletive infixation:A simple rule is that the insertion occurs at a syllable boundary, usually just before the primary stressed syllable. Thus, one hears abso-fuckin-lutely rather than *ab-fuckin-solutely. This rule is insufficient to describe examples such as un-fuckin-believable (not *unbe-fuckin-lievable), however, so modifications to this rule ( Read more... )