Emotions and Music, Linux and Employment, More Religious Madness

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Over the past several days I've been suffering headaches, sleeping badly, eating poorly and have generally been struck by a malaise. Appropriately however and in part inspired by missmalice's list, trayce's and slowlight's postings (among others) and 1phish2phish's recent polls, I am attempting to compose my favourite LPs of contemporary music. True to form I am discovering that my preferences lie with the "critically acclaimed but rarely popular"; meaning complex psychoacoustics, existential lyric poetry and narrative consistency within the LP. With this line of thinking I might end up writing something for Music Theory, if they'll have me.

Microsoft, taking a hammering evidently on the server market and worried about the desktop market, have started a standard FUD campaign claiming Linux violates over 200 patents. Groklaw thought the matter was trivial enough to ignore. Ballmer appears to be getting the patent study completely wrong according to the author. Seems that they have ended up with a lot of egg on their face over this one. Appropriately, after several months of sporadic work (self-imposed), I'll be starting various Ubuntu/Debian sysadmin tasks as Internet Vision Technologies on Monday.

From mrteufel: In a blog backing Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas we have an advocate who claims that Heliocentrism is an atheist doctrine and a lie. Via cardinal_sodom Fawell supporters sought to bomb protestors at the evangelist's funeral. On convert_me, I take the opportunity to pull apart a Creationist site.

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That's a hell of a lot of effort for a parody. It's up there with Jonathon Swift.

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

These are the ones that made me suspicious (all by the post's author):

Why do you want to fill the heads of our children with this Heliocentric nonsense? Do you want them to grow up like Europe’s children, tolerant of budding Islamist threats within their midst? Do you hate America?

No, I hate that man. He’s a charlatan, he’s rude to our President, and he emboldens our enemies.

Jewish people have every bit as much of a right to live here as Christians do- and substantially more of a right than tree-hugging Wiccans like you do. After all, your religion was only invented about 4 years ago. How was there an Original Intent by the Founders to allow you to worship Marilyn Manson?

I notice you use thhe metric system. That automatically makes your calculations suspect. The metric system is pure evil.

Just a little too heavy on the cliches. And since I last looked, he's added this:

BTW, I have no time to refute the people who accuse me of spoofing. That accusation isn’t worth dignifying with a response, anyway. Why would someone spend months working on a blog they didn’t believe in? Ask yourselves that question.

Methinks he protests just a little too hard there. Though now I think about it, I'm not sure whether it's intended as subtle satire or an attempt to discredit Brownback. Works pretty much the same either way...

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Hey, someone who thinks heliocentrism is a lie is also going to think the metric system is evil. One must say they're being consistent in their madness...