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F#*k the Creationists

Curtis Chen
December 20, 2005
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Thanks to John Rogers and Ed Brayton for spreading the good word: Judge John E. Jones III of Pennsylvania has ruled that “intelligent design (ID)” may NOT be taught in Dover’s public schools. Rogers calls it “[a] breathtakingly thorough judicial…

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the bad taste of del.icio.us

Curtis Chen
December 19, 2005
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Today’s error message: Due to the power outage earlier in the week, we appear a number of continued hiccups. [sic] We’ve taken everything offline to properly rebuild and restore everything. I apologize and hope to have this resolved as soon…

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Scott Adams should stick to drawing comics

Curtis Chen
December 16, 2005
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So the guy who draws Dilbert has written a book called God’s Debris, which you can download as a PDF and read for free, and in doing so has crossed the border into the land of crazy old men– jumping…

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Marketing Gone Wild

Curtis Chen
December 15, 2005
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So I’m reading The Onion today, and I click through to one of their stories and have to endure an interstitial ad that asks “Are you a loser?” I skip it, of course, but after I read the story, I…

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Donald Duck’s Family Tree

Curtis Chen
December 14, 2005
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Just in case you were wondering: yes, Donald Duck appears to be of Scottish descent. Though there is also some weird inter-species shit going on to the far right of that tree. Ewww. This guy has diagrammed family trees for…

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del.icio.us not so delicious anymore

Curtis Chen
December 14, 2005
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You know, I’ve been using the del.icio.us online bookmarking service for a while. And while it’s been slow sometimes, it’s never spewed system errors like I started seeing this week: System errorerror: Can’t call method “prepare” on an undefined value…

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I hate wikis

Curtis Chen
December 13, 2005
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I have to maintain documentation on wikis as part of my work, and I hate it. And earlier today, as I was spitting expletives at my computer screen, I realized why I hate editing wikis so much: for the same…

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disturbing slashdot quote of the day

Curtis Chen
December 9, 2005
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“The undead female is pretty hot[.]”— On The Feminine Form In Gaming

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Sight Gag of the Day

Curtis Chen
November 29, 2005
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And Overstock.com wonders why they’re not selling more of these: “Sleek and compact design,” says the product description. Uh, yeah, I suppose you could call it that.

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third time’s the charm

Curtis Chen
November 28, 2005
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I’m done. After attempting nanowrimo twice before, I’ve finally won. I’ve written over 52,000 words and pounded out what can– generously, perhaps, but still– be called a novel. My first draft of my first novel. Oh, it’s still got a…

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