Archives for: February 2008

02/23/08

  03:53:07 am, by Nimble   , 178 words  
Categories: Thoughts, Common Sense

Calgary Transit's Sonic Assault

Well, well. I just had to blog about high-frequency young-person annoyance devices, didn't I? Just this past week, Calgary Transit has been piping in a rising and falling very high pitch tone at McKnight station... JERKS! It's pretty much constant,… more »

02/16/08

  12:14:48 pm, by Nimble   , 559 words  
Categories: Thoughts, Common Sense, Religion, Science

In Which Ben Stein Shows His Edumacation

I've been a little preoccupied answering and posing questions over on the Expelled! blog. It's a blog related to the upcoming movie, Expelled!, which purports to show how "mean Big Science" is "unfairly oppressing" "noble truth-seeking Intelligent… more »

02/13/08

  12:29:13 am, by Nimble   , 141 words  
Categories: Distractions

Seeing Through Simulated Colour-Blind Eyes

There is a nifty site called VisCheck, a particularly interesting feature of which is the feature they have to show a web page as it appears to the colour-blind. It simulates three kinds of colour-blindness: Deuteranope, Protanope and Tritanope.… more »
  12:00:45 am, by Nimble   , 14 words  
Categories: Announcements [A]

Happy Darwin Day

It's his 199th birthday! Stay safe, and keep yourself in the gene pool, kiddies! more »

02/12/08

  08:31:02 pm, by Nimble   , 328 words  
Categories: Distractions, Thoughts, Common Sense

Too High A Hearing Range

Adam was wondering about my 17.4 kHz comment... What it relates to is that there's a device in Britain which uses high frequencies to annoy teenagers away from the premises: A controversial weapon in the war against antisocial behaviour should be… more »

02/10/08

  05:39:59 pm, by Nimble   , 390 words  
Categories: Reviews, Books, Science

Fantastic Voyage : Kurzweil and Grossman

Fantastic Voyage: The Science Behind Radical Life Extension, is a bit of a weird book. more »

02/07/08

  02:37:17 am, by Nimble   , 341 words  
Categories: Thoughts, Common Sense, Ethics, Politics, Religion

Levantine

I doubt that I would see eye to eye with Ezra Levant on many things. The Reform Party is pretty antithetical to my views, and even within the Reform Party context, I thought Preston Manning was a gentleman, and Stockwell Day, whom Ezra supported, was a… more »

02/06/08

  01:06:27 am, by Nimble   , 238 words  
Categories: Internet, Spamming

Phishers Impersonating Paypal

Just poking a quick heads-up here, since this particular scam isn't being caught by some anti-phishing filters. It's entitled "PayPal Resolution Center - Remove Account Limitations", and it points here. You get the typical bullshit that phishers use to… more »