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Retrospectacle – Smart Bitches, Not Meerly Sex

by podblack on April 12, 2010

What is Retrospectacle? This series of posts are a kind of Thomas Dolby-inspired ‘retrospectacle’ of earlier entries from my site, which will fill in during the time that I am busy working and cannot blog on a regular basis.
I’ll be back writing later next week – feel free to give feedback as always.
I have [...]

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The Naked Skeptic – Now A Csi Web Column!

by podblack on July 2, 2009

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I have always enjoyed reading the publication Australasian Science Magazine for the ‘Naked Skeptic’ column that it features – and now one of the contributors to it [...]

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Penn Jillette On Pride In Ancestry Equals ‘Racism’

by podblack on June 29, 2009

On Facebook, Amazing Meeting presenter Margaret Downey posted a picture of a secular Jewish Bat Mitzvah. Penn Jillette responded with the following comments:

Oh dear. Are in favor of “cultural jews.” I mean, isn’t that just racism? I don’t get it.

I”m not kidding. This makes me very uncomfortable. I [...]

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Tell Me More About This Australian Thing Called Rooting

by podblack on March 5, 2009

The first question I have is – did you join in on the #fisting recently on Twitter? Secondly – do you know the guy in the photo that Scott Hurst photographed?
By the way – if the title isn’t a warning enough, yes, this post is the sort that will get me firmly registered on Cursebird.
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LolCode!

by podblack on April 4, 2008

Thanks to G! xxx!
Some guys are trying to turn LOLCATS into a programming language…
http://lolcode.com
So far looks like it would be possible to write a compiler for it. Syntax is fairly similar to something like Ada or another Pascal variant.

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Smart Bitches, Not Meerly Sex

by podblack on January 19, 2008

I have to admit, since it’s only the 19th of January, it’s pretty cool to see the ‘sexiest plagiarism scandal of 2008′ erupt so soon! And all because of animal sex and romance fiction! Hawt.
I’ll admit upfront and proudly that I’m a fan of romance novels. Yes, from the trashy ones to the ones you [...]

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