…that’s the trouble with reality, it’s taken much too seriously….
An Emotional Fish
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More Inquiry
Inquiring Minds have several other big hitters.
There was a Canadian TV show that sort of stays on on the web even though the show is defunct.
And CSICOP has a page for sceptical investigators. (CSICOP is a good organization for learning how to debunk the alternate realities that some people create.)
I really want to get one of those Darwin Fishes, but I don’t ornament my car, so it doesn’t do much good.
Inquiring Minds
A google on “Inquiring Minds ” brings up a link to Fermi Labs, Inquiring Minds. Check this out if you want to learn about elementary particles and forces.
Strange links
I used the phrase “Enquiring Minds want to know” in a previous post and thought that “Enquiring Minds” would be a good blog title so I googled and found this site:alt.usage.english.FAQ.
I found they have lots of interesting tidbits of english usage and origins of phrases and words. I thought their explanation of using verbs with group nouns (e.g. company, herd, flock, pod) was very edifying.
I didn’t see an EM blog pop out of the google search but I didn’t look past the first page and it had 44,000 hits.
Oh yes, The EM phrase I started with was a result of the National Enquirer ad campaign in the ’80s.
New C.I.A. Chief Tells Workers to Back Administration Policies
NY Times Article: New C.I.A. Chief Tells Workers to Back Administration Policies , but did he state what the Administrtration Policies are? What are the CIA employees supposed to be supporting? Enquiring Minds want to know
Blogging Without A Net
Blogging Without A Net. I had just been thinking” look at me, I’m Blogging, Blogging without a net” and then I thought that would be a good blog name so I checked it out and, indeed, Arthur Dent has a blog of that name. I wonder if he has his towel, as well….
The Diebold Variations
The Diebold Variations Some of these posters are priceless. I found the link at The Sideshow
Making Light: From correspondence
Making Light: From correspondence An intresting discussion on Teresa Nielsen Hayden’s blog about what to call “Christian Fundamentalists” who don’t seem to accept the teachings of Christ. The Sermon On the Mount may be considered “Liberal” preaching, by some. There is a growing interest in ‘Leviticans’ since they seem to take their core beliefs from Leviticus. I am partial to some derivitive of Pentateuch, a collective name for the first five books of the bible, (should that be capitalized?) the books of Moses. “Pentatookies”, “Pentations”, “Pentatents”? Mosaics? Maybe something will come of it.
Whatever, these are the folks with the moral values to support torture, suppression of rights, and general warlike nastiness, if the Republican Press can be believed and it is the “Moral Values” that made a difference in this past election.
Veterans
Sometimes it’s hard to remember that I, too, am a veteran…
The Big Ugly Dish
I have a big 8′ satellite dish which can receive signals from a number of C-Band and Ku-band satellites. I have a 4DTV receiver as well as an MPEG/DVB receiver, so I can receive a large gamut of the broadcast TV signals. I can see satellites from the PAS 9 sat at 58 degrees to AMC 7 at 137 degrees. I could probably get AMC 8, a little further west, but it doesn’t look to have anything of interest. There are several places on the web to find what’s up there.
A lot of channels are subscription based and there is so much flux in the market with channels and networks moving to different satellites that I let my subs lapse for the rest of the year. I’ll look at the smoking carnage next year and decide if it is worth renewing. I find I only watch a few channels, regularly.
But the free to air stuff is pretty extensive. If I understood Arabic I could watch Kuwait TV, Bahrain TV, Iran TV Morrocco TV, Saudi TV , and several others. As well as German TV, Croatian TV, Thai TV, Jeevan TV (Malyalam), Romanian TV and others. And there are various Chinese, Japanese and Korean channels. The BBC signals are scrambled for some reason, as well as the Canadian channels. It’s hit or miss but you can get news from around the world. And if there isn’t a TV channel, there may be a radio channel, in English. It was interesting to get another perspective on the Iraqi Invasion.
Not sure what Rang-A-Rang TV is all about.