Quote of the Day

I think that in philosophical strictness at the level where one doubts the existence of material objects and holds that the world may have existed for only five minutes, I ought to call myself an agnostic; but, for all practical purposes, I am an atheist. I do not think the existence of the Christian God any more probable than the existence of the Gods of Olympus or Valhalla. To take another illustration: nobody can prove that there is not between Earth and Mars a china teapot revolving in an elliptic orbit, but nobody thinks this sufficiently likely to be taken into account in practice. I think the Christian God just as unlikely.
-- Bertrand Russell

Week in Review

-	Friday Random Ten: 2007-11-16
-	World Hockey Association (WHA)
-	140,000
-	Creation Museum Report
-	Another sad story from Côte d’Ivoire
-	Disturbing Imagery: Soft Drink Company Mascot Edition
-	Mr Henry Ford
-	Disturbing Imagery: Never too old to rock and roll
-	Ms. Margaret Krissie
-	Disturbing Imagery: Befuddled Ex-President Edition

Quote of the Day

I have an existential map. It has "You are here" written all over it.
-- Stephen Wright

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The primary cause of failure in electrical appliances is an expired warranty. Often, you can get an appliance running again simply by changing the warranty expiration date with a 15/64-inch felt-tipped marker.
-- Dave Barry, "The Taming of the Screw"

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Perhaps it is a peculiarity of mine that despite the fact that I am a professional performer, it is true that I have always preferred playing without an audience.
-- Bill Evans

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Worlds are conquered, galaxies destroyed -- but a woman is always a woman.
-- James T. Kirk, "The Conscience of the King", stardate 2818.9

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It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
-- Ursula K. Le Guin

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But this one goes to eleven.
-- Nigel Tufnel

Quote of the Day

There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
-- Charles Anthony Richard Hoare

Week in Review

-	Disturbing Imagery: Befuddled Ex-President Edition
-	Friday Random Ten: 2007-11-09
-	HEINEKEN LOTTERY
-	United States Football League (USFL)
-	…we’re gonna need to go ahead and move you downstairs into storage B
-	Mr Herry Ofori
-	Drawlotto
-	Friday Random Ten: 2007-11-02
-	Sunshine International Lottery Promotions and Japan Email Lotto
-	THE ‘BOTS ARE BACK! and Cinematic Titanic