Experiment or Blog-Whoring?

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Short Version: Link to this post in the name of science. Ask others to do the same. Results to be announced during the "Meet the Bloggers" panel at MLA 2006.

OK, I'll play: link

Quote of the Day

We owe it to ourselves as respectable human beings, as thinking human beings, to do what we can to make humanity more rational...Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests.
-- Isaac Asimov

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This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy for you.
-- Charles Montgomery Burns

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Someone did a study of the three most-often-heard phrases in New York City. One is "Hey, taxi." Two is, "What train do I take to get to Bloomingdale's?" And three is, "Don't worry. It's just a flesh wound."
-- David Letterman

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When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, "Did you sleep good?" I said "No, I made a few mistakes."
-- Stephen Wright

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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi

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Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.
-- Terry Pratchett (Pyramids)

Week in Review

-	Happy Holidays
-	Friday Random Ten
-	Happy Thanksgiving
-	Mmmm, Mail Order Empty Escargot Shells
-	I bet it will be awful
-	30,000
-	Reading: _Hogfather_
-	Friday Random Ten
-	Thomas Dolby: The Sole Inhabitant
-	40 Years Ago Today

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Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson

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Science offers us an explanation of how complexity (the difficult) arose out of simplicity (the easy). The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain.
-- Richard Dawkins

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The intelligent beings in these regions should therefore not be surprised if they observe that their locality in the universe satisfies the conditions that are necessary for their existence. It is a bit like a rich person living in a wealthy neighborhood not seeing any poverty.
-- Stephen Hawking

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I've always said there's nothing an agnostic can't do if he really doesn't know whether he believes in anything or not.
-- Monty Python

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Many a time in the past six years I have bit my tongue so I wouldn't annoy people with the always obnoxious observation, "I told you so." But, dammit it all to hell, I did tell you, and I've been telling you since 1994, and I am so sick of this man and everything he represents -- all the sleazy, smug, self-righteous graft and corruption and "Christian" moralizing and cynicism and tax cuts for all his smug, rich buddies. Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.
-- Molly Ivins

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If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
-- John Stuart Mill

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Instead of school busing and prayer in schools, which are both controversial, why not a joint solution? Prayer in buses. Just drive these kids around all day and let them pray their fuckn' empty little heads off.
-- George Carlin, Brain Droppings

Week in Review

-	Reading: _Hogfather_
-	Friday Random Ten
-	Thomas Dolby: The Sole Inhabitant
-	40 Years Ago Today
-	bbPress
-	Non-Newtonian Fluid Fun
-	There’s got to be a limit…
-	Friday Thirteen: Metropolis
-	Piracy Attack Map
-	Spammers: Almost worse than Jim Talent

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The key to happines is self-delusion.
-- Dogbert

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I'm a firm believer in the philosophy of a ruling class. Especially since I rule.
-- Randal Graves

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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
-- Mark Twain

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I hope if dogs ever take over the world, and they chose a king, they don't just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas.
-- Jack Handey

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I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet you can really see it in those genitals.
-- Jack Handey

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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.
-- Harlan Ellison

Week in Review

-	Friday Thirteen: Metropolis
-	Piracy Attack Map
-	Spammers: Almost worse than Jim Talent
-	I can sum it all up in three words
-	Rated R
-	Nobody hates the troops more than…
-	Friday Random Ten
-	It’s November 2nd …
-	Mmmm, Mail Order Elk Carcass
-	Bill Kristol: Idiot

Quote of the Day

There are two essential rules of management. One: the customer is always right. Two: they must be punished for their arrogance.
-- Dogbert

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Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.
-- Stanislaw Lem

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Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word "commence" in cold blood, go somewhere else very quickly. But if they say "Enter", don't stop to pack.
-- Terry Pratchett (Small Gods)

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It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice - there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
-- Frank Zappa

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I'm a white male, aged 18 to 49. Everyone listens to me! No matter how dumb my suggestions are.
-- Homer J. Simpson

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God's given me a gift. I shovel well. I shovel very well.
-- The Shoveler

Week in Review

-	Rated R
-	Nobody hates the troops more than…
-	Friday Random Ten
-	It’s November 2nd …
-	Mmmm, Mail Order Elk Carcass
-	Bill Kristol: Idiot
-	rlrr.drum-corps.net as a Graph
-	Baseball Blogging
-	Friday Random Ten
-	Cardinals Take 3-1 Series Lead

Quote of the Day

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
-- Sir Francis Bacon

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C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.
-- Bjarne Stroustrup

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The idea that an arbitrary naive human should be able to properly use a given tool without training or understanding is even more wrong for computing than it is for other tools (e.g. automobiles, airplanes, guns, power saws).
-- Doug Gwyn