Month: October 2009
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The Hockey Stick Is Broken Permanently
This is a tale of forensics and what appears to be scientific fraud. And wouldn’t you know it: climate hysteria. Let me start with the famous hockey stick. It is a graph showing unprecedented global warming at the end of the 20th century. It was the icon of global warming hysteria. The wiki has the…
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“If you want war, prepare for peace!”
Or something like that. In his characteristically circular manner, Jerry Garcia explains why the Grateful Dead never bothered with anti-war politics and didn’t write anti-war songs — in a video of anti-war demonstrations to the tune of “Cream Puff War”: All in all, it’s a remarkably good period video, and I recognized some people I…
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DON’T YOU HATE CAPS LOCK
mOST OF THE TIMES YOU HIT IT YOU WERE ACTUALLY AIMING FOR “A”, AND WHEN YOU SEE EVERYTHING YOU TYPED IN CAPS IT MAKES YOU FEEL LIKE YOU’RE SOME IDIOT WHO IS YELLING FOR NO APPARENT REASON. Fortunately, someone has come up with a handy, easy-to-inplement fix, which I searched out the other day in…