Category: Education

Don Carlos died in 1568.‚  Who was this fellow?‚  He was heir to the Spanish throne and apparently was severely mentally challenged due to massive inbreeding in the Habsburg dynasty.‚  He had only 4 great- grandparents (most people have 8), only 6 great-great-grandparents (most people have 16).‚  Two of his great-grandmothers were sisters.‚  Sounds like some folks I know down in the American South…

Dr. John Dee, a mathematician, astrologer & philosopher hired a man named Edward Kelley to help be an intermediary between himself and angels.‚  Through their contact with angels, several books were dictated and written down by Dee that were intended for the service of humanity.‚  The two men toured Europe with their newfound books and ideas for several years until an angel told Edward Kelley that they should share their wives.‚ … read more “1582: Dr. John Dee Receives Books Dictated By Angels”

Michael Arrington of TechCrunch posted yesterday that Tshirthell.com is claiming that it is shutting its doors due to receiving too much annoying hate mail.‚  I actually recently joined the Tshirthell.com affiliate program and put some links on my site, so I am rather interested in this news.‚  I seriously doubt that Tshirthell.com found Sunshine Megatron (the businessman formerly known as Aaron Landau Schwarz) is quitting because he pissed a couple of morons off.‚ … read more “The REAL Reason TShirtHell.com Shuts Down”

I was very surprised to learn today that the Seattle Police Department does not investigate hit & run accidents that do not involve major injuries.‚  My car was hit by a man in a Jeep while it was parked in Queen Anne.‚  Witnesses wrote down the man’s license plate, so I filed a police report and a report with my insurance company.… read more “Seattle Police Refuse to Investigate Hit & Runs”

The Forrester Wave report was recently released profiling seven major companies in the “Listening Platform” space, including Visible Technologies.‚  Two years ago, Visible Technologies was a mere afterthought to the report but now we have grown to be one of the biggest players.‚  Forrester reviewed our service in a very positive light, saying “Visible Technologies, a new entrant to the listening platform category, offers an impressive technology stack.‚ … read more “Visible Technologies Performs Well In Forrester Wave Report”

The British ban on guns has actually massively increased gun crime!‚  Without guns, citizens cannot defend themselves against armed criminals (including the government itself lol).‚  Watch this video on why the British gun ban has failed.

… read more “British Gun Ban FAIL!”

Stanley Fish of the NYTimes wrote an interesting article on the decline of classical education and Jeremy wrote a reply to it here and I commented on it at the bottom. I love the great classics, but I don’t necessarily think that they are the most effective means today of opening the minds and hearts of our youths.… read more “Classic Literature Vs. Modern Education”

Government bailouts of many private companies has begun to smack of nationalization. Citigroup & Bank of America have received tens of billions of dollars and expect to receive much more. The government will end up owning significant chunks of each. Chrysler’s crappy finance arm just received a $1.5 billion to try to give better deals on leases for their awful automobiles.… read more “Bailouts Continue to Grow and Spread”

In the year 931, a farmer became enraged at King Theinhko of Burma for eating his cucumbers without asking and raised a rebellion and overthrew Theinhko.‚  The farmer was henceforth known as “The Cucumber King”.

Place your dirty joke here.

Good video on how superstitious people are easily duped by psychics, mystics and other religious people. Richard Dawkins is the famous author of the God Delusion and Derren Brown is a psychic/stage magician.

… read more “Derren Brown and Richard Dawkins discuss Psychics”