After many years on the internet, I finally got hacked. It took the form of the index file on my main site being replaced by a file that put up the message “hacksbd Crew owns you”. The date of the attack was the early morning hours of 22 August (local time for the [...]
Andrew Sullivan, who I quit reading regularly more than a year ago, posted a hysterical and uninformed rant against SUV owners. They sponsor terror, don’t you know. At the end of the article, he suggests a bumper sticker for non-SUV owners which reads:
“My car doesn’t subsidize Saudi terror”
I have one for SUV owners [...]
I miss sonic booms. When I was a teenager living in Houston, Texas in the 1960’s, sonic booms were a frequent occurrence. They were produced by supersonic B-58 Hustlers belonging to the Strategic Air Command knifing through the stratosphere on simulated bomb runs in which Houston substituted for targets in the USSR. [...]
In Idiotic Design versus Theistic Evolution, I pointed out that biological, economic, and political systems (among many others) exhibit “self-regulating” behavior. This self-regulation largely comes about through negative feedbacks that force different components of the respective systems to operate within a range of values. An example of a negative feedback is how predator [...]
For quite a few years I’ve joked about how nice it would be to have a nuclear Glock - I’ve even suggested a possibile technology. For my idea to work would require that element 114, currently known as Ununquadium, would have a long half-life fissile isotope. Nuclear shell theory posits that 298Uuq114 should [...]