Sent the following followup email to the Toronto Transit Commission after hearing nothing for nearly two weeks on a report that I filed early this year. They have you fill out a web form, and list explicit instructions to send an email to followup@ttc.ca if you don’t hear back. I wonder how frequently anyone hears [...]

Fark’s annual headline competition has some great candidates;
Suicide bomber strikes Iraqi funeral. At least two dead
Peephole in door of girl’s dorm room reversed; police are looking into it
Baghdad’s National Museum reopens six years after looting. Featured displays include mostly a bunch of really heavy stuff
Plane crashes in Florida panhandle, no pilot found. Well there’s your [...]

The National post has a series of section pages that are covered in printed post-it-notes offering tips on how to live the good life. While there are some interesting and amusing pieces, like “How to perform the Heimlich on a cat” and “Know how to pull off a con, most of them are silly or [...]

The National Post has an interesting article today about a rarely used piece of Canadian law; Woman faces witchcraft charge in fraud case. , a 36 year old woman is facingin eight charges including the witchcraft charge.
Police have invoked a rarely used witchcraft charge against a Toronto woman [Vishwantee Persaud] accused of defrauding a lawyer [...]

People who have tried reading the Kent Hovind thesis say that English as a Second Language students write better, or that it sounds like an eight year old could have done better (On my summer vacation, I earned a PhD!). I decided to get the stats. I found a page on addedbytes.com that does [...]

Finished proofing the OCR of Kent Hovind’s doctoral thesis, and I believe that this is not the full and complete document. It’s only 102 pages long in the Wikileaks provided PDF, and appears to be only a couple chapters at best; there are chapters referenced in the introduction that simply aren’t here. This embarrassing bit [...]

I took a break from reading the Hovind Thesis, and was going to hold off on posting anything until I got the full thing edited into a nice text file to post. I’ve found the best part of the whole thing starting on page 82. It’s a poem. Yes, a poem that Kent composed to [...]

There’s a pretty good reason why Kent Hovind didn’t want to have his dissertation made available in the way most are… it’s garbage. It gets more outrageous the further I get into the document.
UPDATE – I have the full proofed text on a newer post – search it, enjoy… I think I caught all the [...]

“A tu quoque argument attempts to discredit the opponent’s position by asserting his failure to act consistently in accordance with that position; it attempts to show that a criticism or objection applies equally to the person making it. It is considered an ad hominem argument, since it focuses on the party itself, rather than its [...]

I wrote about a bad experience with a website back in 2005, and I made an off-handed reference to a bit of bad grammar I found in an error message;
Microsoft 4.0+ or Netscape 4.7+ (excluding Netscape 6) is required to use Purolators ‘Online Shipping’
My first complaint is that they don’t even know what the possessive [...]