September 4, 2009
Curious Clicks

Believe it or not, there is a classic Iowahawk 1951 Mercury coupe owned by Jesse James in this picture.
- Illegal Residents: Natural born and naturalized citizens of the United States who actively work to undo the nation while taking full advantage of the benefits.
- 1-Sentence Review, Inglorious Bastards: If once every two generations a film features a Jew emptying a machine gun clip into Adolph Hitler's face, I can't say I see the harm in that. -- Solomonia
- Baron Bodissey is updating Samuel Johnson: "The accusation of racism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
- Please update your spell-checkers: There are five A's in 'raaaaacism'
- Really? Who knew? Newspapers Are Poorly Written, Stilted, and Boring
- The only plant in the world, a survivor of Allied bombing in World War II, capable of producing the central part of a nuclear reactor's containment vessel in a single piece,Samurai-Sword Maker's Reactor Monopoly May Cool Nuclear Revival
- "The left in our country is high. Completely stoned out of their minds." Mr. President, Please Don't Bogart the Blunt
- "Everyone wants to be a politician. Which is rather odd given their reputation." Architecture Morality: The Statesman and the Churchman: Lost American Icons
- Kredibility Krunch Koming between Little Green Footballs - Truther Document 'Signatories' Say They Were Misled "There’s no need to lie about my position, Ace."... and.... Ace of Spades HQ "the Charles Johnson Axiom: Truthers lie."
- Kredibilty Krunch Koming @ Wikipedia: "Wikipedia’s xenophobia may be increasing over time...."SSRN-Wikipedia’s Labor Squeeze and its Consequences by Eric Goldman
- First we socialize all the lawyers: A Doctor's Plan for Legal Industry Reform - WSJ.com
- "Not since Superman died...." More "Woe is us" from the classical conservatives: Can We Have Buckley Back? @ The Next Right "We don't have a Buckley anymore. Our intellectual giants have died off and not being replaced."
- White House pleasuring Van Jones: White House tight-lipped about Obama adviser
- The cupcake boom is here. The cupcake crash is coming.
- A pretend controversy: Chess News - Did Lenin and Hitler face off at a chess board?
- 50 things that are being killed by the internet - Telegraph #9 The myth of cat intelligence....
- 174 residents and 7 cops: Fire chief shot by cop in Arkansas court over tickets
- Rebellion-B-Gone: Chemical Neurowarfare "Nasal sprays of oxytocin have been found to increase trust in humans."
- iowahawk: An Ill Wind is Breaking For Our President "So," asked the President, elegantly lighting a Marlboro with the hot end of his previous Marlboro, "how do we avoid the Waterloo scenario?"
- In which two "brilliant" scientists
remain clueless get a clue about the drunken, self-absorbed bastard named Jackson Pollock: Revisiting Pollock's Drip Paintings "We investigate the contentions that Jackson Pollock's drip paintings are fractals produced by the artist's Levy distributed motion...."
- BibliOdyssey's tours The Geometric Landscape of the very eccentric Lorenz Stoer (c.1537-c.1621).
- Dark Roasted Blend on Living, Growing Architecture aka Hobbitland for Real: "Perhaps the oldest examples are the living bridges of Cherrapunjee, India."
- Concerning the IQ of the Lord: Do You Ever Wonder . . . Little Miss Attila asks. "He was fully divine, yet fully human, too. So which kind of human was it?—the regular kind, or the other regular kind?"
- The head bonehead of the posh, expensive prep school called, risibly, the Cushing Academy has decided on a library without the books. N. B.: It'll cost you somewhere north of $40,000 to send your kid to be educated by these crapmeisters.
- Moe Lane has weighed his priorties "and I've decided that the general political ecosystem does not need the Earth Liberation Front. "
Kim Il Sung in final stages of radiation poisoning: North Korea Says It Has Entered 'Final Stage' of Uranium Enrichment
Posted by Vanderleun at September 4, 2009 10:29 PM
"scientists remain clueless about the drunken, self-absorbed bastard named Jackson Pollock"
I thought that they reached the correct conclusion. Pollock's "paintings" are just random paint spatters. Therefor, you can not use mathematical analysis to show that an unprovenanced random paint spatter was from the hand of said drunk or from some other drunks hand.
Another way of putting it would be that there was no method behind Pollock's madness, it was just gin.
I missed the real sign that the paper's authors are in on the joke. The title of the paper is:
"Never mind the Pollocks"
I'm crazy 'bout a Mercury, cruise it up and down the road.
Forget it, Jake. It's Arkansas.
I'm totally in the tank for the "Doctor's Plan for Legal Reform". I want it and I want it NOW!
I'm glad Ace has called out charles johnson.
LGF did some great work with Rathergate and the Fauxtography in Beirut/Lebanon, and used to be on top of the jihad. But man, has that dude gone off the tracks...Captain Ahab Johnson in his pursuit of Glen Beck; portraying the Tea Partiers as Ron Paulians; over the top on Townhallers, calling all anti-big gubmint speaker "screamers"; and his obsession with creationists...please...
He's lost it.
If he spent half the time going after the left as he does going after the right, you might see some balance.
He's clearly imbalanced.
The biggest puzzle to me about the missing intellectual heft in conservatism is this: if they're so smart, why don't they fill the gap?
the title 'never mind the pollocks' was an obvious play on words, referencing the sex pistols album. Nature of course did not run that irreverent title when they published our paper; in fact the version that appears on the arXiv is not the same as what appeared in the journal; we are not allowed to post that version on public forums, as per Nature's restrictions. our second paper on this topic was published in physical review E, and is available at arXiv:0710.4917
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