Infophilia

Alright, I've finally gotten mad enough to be broken out of my blog hiatus (slash-abandonment). Here's the situation: The US governm...

It seems the US has let its bigotry seep through once again, in refusing to sign a UN resolution against it: According to some of the declar...

*is stirred from sleep by a metallic canine * Rules: 1. Link to the person who tagged you. 2. Post the rules on your blog. 3. Write six rand...

With the death of George Carlin , I've decided to come out of pseudo-blogging-retirement to honor him in the only way appropriate: By de...

It appears that the poll of the day over at GameFAQs is "Do you believe humans actually landed on the moon?" PZed seems to have ...

Lesson #1: Don't quote-mine the person you're trying to convince You may remember Dana Ullman, noted homeopath who doesn't know ...

A lot of skeptics have written about how intelligent people can be tricked into believing incredibly stupid things. But I think that sometim...

Sometimes you find a good dose of skepticism in the oddest places. Take today's Order of the Stick comic . (Spoiler warning if you inten...

Why Wikipedia Matters Imagine, if you will, a Mr. Joe Blow. Joe's your typical guy, unversed in the complexities of medicine, who one da...

Any Unix-using programmer should get a kick out of the latest xkcd comic . Now if I can just find the butterfly key on my keyboard, I'm ...