Cardinal Warns That The Gay Pride Parade Might 'Morph Into Ku Klux Klan' March
Here’s a link to the video and interview done by Fox Chicigon.
The language is a bit extreme and it seems like he knows it. I think the ideas come from some of the examples not only found in gay parades but some gay activists done by disturbing mass done by groups like the Sisters of Indulgence. Often these groups are celebrated in the gay community and I think this is the part of the community he’s trying to address. The interview quotes the Cardinal saying:
Well, you start with respect. You start with people who are homosexually oriented, gays and lesbians. However they picture themselves, you start with respect…
Let’s be clear, he didn’t say “is like the KKK” but “morph into”.
Metal Vader Bust
An impressive Vader bust made of random metals but I must say, I enjoy the “Cocatrix”/”Cockatrice” sculpture.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter to be directed by Tim Burton
IGN is reporting that the story “explores the secret life of our greatest President, and the untold story that shaped our nation” is being filmed.
via Laughing Squid
Carrier IQ
It seems like the topic of Carrier IQ is picking up some steam since it has Senator Al Franken sending letters. I was surprise that Gruber on the Talk Show this week didn’t understand why people weren’t making a big deal of it yet. I was under the impression that this news only broke in the last two or three days. Any serious news item like this that is “foreign” to the main stream takes about three days to get reported.
It seems even iOS devices have some variation of Carrier IQ. It is strictly used for sending error reports and related logs and “it does not appear the daemon has any access or communication with the UI layer, where text entry is done”. You are able to turn it off. With this iOS information, it would seem like these other uses of Carrier IQ is a blotch job from these carriers/handset makers.
PBS Off the books Generative Art
PBS’s series Off the books has shown time and time again to be impressive. It’s latest episode on Generative Art is really interesting.
Maxim:
“What we’re finding out is there’s this partnership that we have with computers… Humans are really good at mining there own intelligence, into a useful format that we can reuse.”
When web advertisement attacks
Gruber on TheNextWeb shitty web structure:
TheNextWeb weighed in at over 6 MB and required 342 HTTP requests. 73 different JavaScript scripts alone. Absurd. I did a reload on the same page a few minutes later and it was up to 368 HTTP requests but weighed “only” 1.99 MB.
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If every article on the web weighed 3 MB, you’d eat through a 2 GB data cap by reading only 20 articles a day. Not watching video — just reading.
Sampled - the simple social network
I’ve been using Stamped the last few days and have been enjoying it quite a bit. Shawn Blanc wrote a great review about the site/servers.
However, whenever I see a new service like this, I wonder how they going to make money.
Things I learn today - 201111292339 edition
Christian Athesist — found during the search for the Catholic Answer podcast link. It is what you might guess, Christian values without the God stuff. Among catholics, I thought of them as culture catholics and they would mainly focus on social issues.
Presuppositionalism is a theory of apologetics created by Reformed theologian Cornelius Van til which roughly speaking argues according to how one’s worldview fits with the data.
Aquinas’ Five Proofs was reference a lot during my readings tonight, which sprung from the Catholics Answers show mentioned earlier.