The Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon

Another post on Monkey Fartz. Great video clip.
I’ll probably repeat this statement over and over again in this blog, but what issues this country has that require some amount of earnest political debate to solve will simply not be dealt with intelligently until both sides of the political spectrum attempt to understand each other. You [...]

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Our family just got a new member, Baron Von Augenbraue. He’s a Miniature Schnauzer, has an incredible disposition, gets along with Bolli, and should be a very fast learner (read: will spend less time peeing on the rug/attempting to chew through wires/eating Michelle’s clothing).
He kept us up for hours last night from his little doggie [...]

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This post, containing video footage, is pretty awesome. I’ve started listening to Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin Zone once in a while on 96.9 FM Talk; not because I agree with him at all, but because I find his world view both funny and scary at the same time. The right-wing radio celebrity really [...]

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I recently learned the non-baseball definition to the term “upper decker” from Todd Atkins. One of his buddies was upper-decked in Maine, and the story is pretty funny. However, Confession of an Upper Decker is an instant classic. Great read; highly recommended.
“Upper Decker“-(American slang); 1. in the game of baseball, a home [...]

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I recently have discovered Click and Hack–the name was inspired by Click and Clack, the hosts of NPR’s Car Talk–who have put together some really interesting Java brain teasers but, unfortunately, do not seem to have a central home page. Here’s a good one I found last night:
Josh: A looper is a loop that’s [...]

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The current president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has jumped onto the blogging train (the 100th Islamist Monkey, perhaps?). His first post is a (politicized) autobiography that describes the Iranian Islamic Revolution, with a strong focus on the “Great Satan’s” attempts to foil the foundling government. Religion and politics is a scary combination; it’s [...]

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I should have known that such a thing as IT Conversations existed. Net radio interviews of, by, and for geeks (a.k.a. “IT professionals”), which is to say that it’s awesome. A bunch of the interviewees are people whose blogs I follow regularly, such as Tim Bray, Dan Bricklin, and, of course, Elias Torres, with [...]

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This article calls for the video game industry to product “high brow” video games, claiming that video games as an industry/artistic genre will never be taken seriously until that happens. The author compares video games to music, movies, television, dance, and literature, which, though saturated with poppy crap, all have legitimizing forms. The [...]

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Recently, South Korean gamers hare teamed up to kill Chinese gamers in a large virtual world.
Meanwhile, the real world seems to be hurling itself into an unstable state, and the internet is still harolded as a potentially great democratizing and equalizing force that will somehow help to solve this mess. Indeed, the net is [...]

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Due to a combination of friendly nagging and a desire to be one of the cool kids doing this whole blogging thing, I have finally succumbed, installed WordPress, and am writing my very first post. However, rather than posting a poetic statement of purpose, since such a attempt to confine the random workings of [...]

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