As you may have noticed, things have been rather quiet on this blog. I’m still looking after Annalena full time, and that has pretty much taken over my entire life. I am having a great time, though it is challenging and tiring work. I’ll be doing this till at least the end of this year, […]

Here’s something for all you conspiracy theorists:
On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study
Abstract:
Among a fringe community of paranoids, aluminum helmets serve as the protective measure of choice against invasive radio signals. We investigate the efficacy of three aluminum helmet designs on a sample group of four individuals. Using a $250,000 network analyser, […]

This seems about right:

You Are a Little Scary

You’ve got a nice edge to you. Use it.

How Scary Are You?
I can’t comment on PZMyers, but I know John Wilkins ain’t that scary. Unless he’s one of those charming psychopath types, of course, and in that case you won’t know until it is too late.

I’ve long had a bit of a thing for zombies, so I was very excited to read about the Evolution Store on the Philosophy of Biology Blog, where you can pick from a great selection of brains. I would dearly love to get the deluxe brain with opened head, or the 14-part giant brain, but […]

I just installed the Rockbox firmware on my favourite toy, my iRiver iHP-140, and … it rocks! So much better than the iRiver firmware. Gapless playback, great playlist support, and it can play many different codecs: mp3, ogg vorbis, flac, wavpac, and mpc (but not wma). The Rockbox team have turned the best portable music […]

Annalena AaronsBorn: 25 June 2005, 4.33amWeight: 3.9 kg Length: 51 cm
Phew!
All her photos are in a big photo album.
(But probably won’t appear here, unlike these ex-neighbours of ours).

For those of you keenly following my greatest distraction, Jacqui is now officially two weeks overdue. She’s feeling fine, and all the signs are good (good amniotic fluid index, no signs of foetal distress), but there has been pressure on us to induce labour at this point.
Meanwhile, I’ve been reading Mark Burgman’s new book, Risks […]

I don’t have a US$20 handy to verify this, but it does seem like an interesting distraction for conspiracy theorists.
[Thanks to News from Nowhere]

Professor of Philosophy V. Alan White, from University of Wisconsin Colleges, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, has composed some witty philosophy songs.
The following parodies are offered in the hope that philosophers, while deservedly known for serious devotion to the search for truth, also will forever treasure the Socratic levity of the Symposium. Not that you’ll encounter that sort […]

As written about in The Age/SMH, check out Tom Compagnoni’s “regurgitated manifestation of captured sounds” at http://www.waxaudio.com.au/