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The Left and Historical Knowledge

List of 12 books about American History. File this under “things to do with my shiny new library membership.”

Quitting the Paint Factory

“On the virtues of idleness
By Mark Slouka – Harper’s Magazine – November 2004 issue”

I like some of what’s talked about here, although frankly he never really seems to prove anything. This article reads like the inspiration for something really cool.

So I just took the online Jung Typology Test at Human Metrics. The result:

• moderately expressed introvert
• slightly expressed sensing personality
• slightly expressed feeling personality
• slightly expressed judging personality

One analysis labels me as “the Protector Guardian”, which sounds like something on a tarot card. Anyhow, this is one of those things that comes up every few years in conversation, and I can never remember what I score, so here we go. Preserved to my electronic memory.

The Beast 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2004

Not to spoil the surprise, but guess who’s number one with a bullet? Our very own Kenneth Blackwell. Fucker.

The Gematriculator

“The Gematriculator is a service that uses the infallible methods of Gematria developed by Mr. Ivan Panin to determine how good or evil a web site or a text passage is.”

It turns out my homepage is 98% good! Alas, my resume is 52% evil.

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sleep (But Were Too Afraid To Ask)

Mmmmm, bimodality of sleep in humans…

The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity

An old but excellent thesis about human stupidity.

Best Game Ever

The original concept was to release a new (small) game every Friday. The games are fun, some of them quite so. The most interesting part is the forums, wherein a group of folks analyzes the game post-release and try to come up with what worked/failed/could be improved. Note this site has been mostly down for the last few months.