what kind of freak are you?

I’m working on a set of t-shirts for the Global Spin community (plus a secret project I’ll unveil later this month). I have a couple designs mocked up already and a decent place to make and sell them, and I’ve run into a bit of a snag. There are too many kinds of freaks. That’s [...]

websites as flowers

or: Let a thousand elements bloom! Global Spin page graph courtesy of Websites as graphs and htmlgraph.

And Jesus said, “Go, spel: G-N-O-S-T-I-C in the Code”

This is an excellent article by Elaine Pagels concerning not so much “The DaVinci Code” but rather the nerve it hits that makes it so popular. Elaine Pagels is a senior scholar of religion at Princeton. She is well known for her book The Gnostic Gospels. Here is an interesting excerpt.

bush to insurgents: “please stop bringing ‘em on”

From a Reuters story today: President George W. Bush admitted on Thursday that his bellicose “bring ‘em on” taunt to Iraqi insurgents was a big mistake, as he and Prime Minister Tony Blair carefully avoided setting a timetable for removing troops from Iraq. A mistake? Really? Ya think? Could there perhaps be other mistakes lurking [...]

Scientists Predict How to Detect a Fourth Dimension of Space

From PhysOrg: Scientists at Duke and Rutgers universities have developed a mathematical framework they say will enable astronomers to test a new five-dimensional theory of gravity that competes with Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. I especially like that the test uses gravitational lensing, the same effect that was used to test the General Theory back [...]