Useful Site Of The Day: The Fallacy Files

If you're ever searching for the exact. right. description. of someone's line of (specious/fallacious) reasoning, you should hit up The Fallacy Files, your one-stop-shop for definitions and examples of common logical fallacies.
Ahh, the wonders of the Intarweb.

"Nobody's Watching", But NBC Is Listening

It appears as if someone over at NBC Universal is watching the hits on the "Nobody's Watching" trailer over at YouTube very carefully. Nobrainer tossed me a link pointing out that NBC has picked up NW for an initial run of 6 episodes with more to come if the response is good.
If I may [...]

Leapin' Lizards! The Barrage Win!

My youngest brother Reid and I made our way over to Villanova University Thursday night to catch the game between the Philadelphia Barrage and the Long Island Lizards. The Barrage were victorious, eking out a 10-8 victory. We had quite a bit of fun cheering the home team on, enough so that I [...]

The Wonders Of The Source Engine

Two quick hits here, while I have a moment.
Valve Software is looking to release Half-Life 2 Episode 2 sometime this fall. Reportedly they will be including two side-games in the Ep. 2 release. One will warm the hearts of all olde-timey Quake players:

(Direct link here.)
That's right - Team Fortress 2, baby! And [...]

Doings And Goings-On

Things have been busy - very busy - over the last few days, hence my lack of posting.
First off, I was officially installed as an elder of my church this past Sunday. I had to give my testimony in brief (read: less than 5 minutes, a real chore, for those of you that know [...]

U.N. Smurfs To The Israel/Lebanon Border: An Illogical Non-Starter

I cannot see the logic that would motivate Israel to concede to allowing U.N. blue hats on the Lebanese border as a sufficient resolution to the current crisis, and so I can only view Anan and Blair's "plan" as global political pandering of the highest order.
The presence of U.N. troops would serve only a single [...]

Just When I Thought I'd Seen It All

I've seen all manner of stupid "gamer" peripherals for the PC, from mini-keypads designed to give gamers WASD and not much else to 3 dimensional mice to "physics accelerators". I thought it couldn't get any worse; I was wrong.
Via Engadget, I caught wind of the KillerNic, a "gaming-tuned" network card. The stupid thing [...]