Random Thoughts

What's up with Maui and suicides?

I confess I have never been to Maui or any other part of Hawaii.   Part of that is my age- I am still young enough to do fun stuff and so I have had run-ins with Turkish police, the Bulgarian mafia and even set a record at the Escape&Evasion course for ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 9 2010 - 3:47pm

Crossover with game design

In science, we first verify our procedures and the process by which we got our results.  Then we validate it against reality.  For example, I wrote a code that simulated galaxies colliding.  The main verification was to ensure the subset of physics we were ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Sep 11 2010 - 1:49am

Cyberstalking of me by the Organisation Internationale des Intersexués OII

Cyberstalking as a way of trying to bully someone into giving them what they want on line.  A certain website was set up just to slander me by The  Organisation Intersex International  OII.    Now one Katrina C Rose a Phd candidate in history at U Iowa has ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Sep 21 2010 - 9:22am

What Now?!

This article prompted me to consider the question of whether there were any boundaries regarding the silliness that could be presented as science.  The article entitled ' Vampire Books Like "Twilight" May Be Altering Teen Minds ' has re ...

Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Sep 13 2010 - 3:37pm

Diet Status

It is unfortunate that whenever I have personal stuff to post as a blog here I have nothing else to choose as a tag than the uninformative "random thoughts"... I wish the posting interface in our beautiful site had a wider selection of tags, incl ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 16 2010 - 3:05pm

Science 2.0 In Expert Mode

I occasionally get questions about usage of Science 2.0 that go beyond the FAQ so I decided I would write up a short article on using the site for non-beginners.   The FAQ covers the basics- what Science 2.0 ® is, the experimental nature of this open writi ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 28 2016 - 7:08am

Changing Your Workflow Sucks

My main computer died, and I'm on my backup system.  While I can still work, it feels like I've shifted from my starship bridge to the tiny emergency control room, while still on full battle alert. I have many working computers in the house.  Bet ...

Article - Project Calliope - Sep 28 2010 - 4:46pm

A New Guinness World Record For The Biggest Smiley Face

Five hundred smiling people from around the world gathered today in the world's theme park capital to set the Guinness World Record for the biggest smiley face. Coinciding with and celebrating today's official World Smile Day(R), they formed the ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 1 2010 - 5:47pm

My experience in the Church of Scientology

I saw a cool program on the Church of Scientology a few days ago, and I meant to post this review here but forgot until just now when a Google Ad unit linking to their site appeared on the sidebar. This isn't a review of the show, it's a review o ...

Blog Post - Warren Davies - Oct 2 2010 - 4:40pm

Trollipop Will Be Deleted

I love good comment sections in blogs: Good questions, different opinions, more examples, constructive criticisms, and so on; all this can help to get a much better picture of the issue at hand. However, having to scroll through loads of junk just to find ...

Blog Post - Sascha Vongehr - Oct 12 2010 - 9:34am