February 2012
25 posts
Poe's Law
POE’S LAW: Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won’t mistake for the genuine article.
Poe’s Corollary
It is impossible for an act of Fundamentalism to be made that someone won’t mistake for a parody.
Poe’s Paradox
In any fundamentalist group where Poe’s Law applies, a paradox exists where any new...
fungusmonk:
dedieu:
did you know you could drag and drop an image from your browser to a folder on your comp to save it instead of right clicking and saving as?
yeah not only does this take less time but it also doesn’t show up in your downloaded files and doesn’t set the folder you place it in as the default the next time someone tries to save something meaning people are less likely to...
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Watchcity livin’
“I’m still in love with the keyboard, but my viewpoint of what’s important in...”
– Herbie Hancock, on the present moment. (via americanroutes)
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Russell's Teapot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell’s_teapot
In an article titled “Is There a God?” commissioned, but never published, by Illustrated magazine in 1952, Russell wrote:
Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake. If I were to suggest that between the...