Archive for May 27th, 2009
Shameless self promotion or legitimate experiment?
Posted by CyberLizard in Blogging on May 27, 2009
Shooting up... with data!
I’m a data junkie. I love tables and graphs and charts. Google Analytics provides all kinds of awesomeness in this area. One fascinating aspect of collecting all this data is that one can see where one’s traffic is coming from (if one want’s to, which this one does).
Why do you care? Because I’m going to ask for your help with a little experiment. I want you to pick a post of mine that you like (or one that you don’t like, I’m not picky about what you pick, as long as it’s not my nose. That’s off limits) and click on one of the little linkies at the bottom of the post, the ones under Share and Enjoy. Submit the post to Digg or StumbleUpon. Those are the one’s I’m ‘specially curious about. I hear lots of hype about Digg, but I get a ton of hits from StumbleUpon. I’m curious to see if there is a direct correlation between submissions and hits and which one generates more activity.
Or I could totally just be trolling for cheap self-aggrandizement. I’ll leave it up to the sophisticated reader to decide.
The great decider
Fresh new face of the Republican party!
Posted by CyberLizard in Politics on May 27, 2009
I’m not even sure where to begin with this one.
Dear Mom, I’ve met the man of my dreams and I couldn’t be happier….
Is Glenn Beck going to be a grandfather? ‘Cause insanity of Beckian proportions is the only way I can see someone thinking this was a good choice for a family portrait. Actually, the more I think about it, the more it seems likely that this is the new poster family of the Republican Party. Let’s go through the checklist:
- White? Check
- Male dominance? Check
- Family values? Check
- Appropriate use of firearm? Check
- Appropriate use of sperm? Check
You know, there’s only one thing missing from this picture to make them the perfect poster family…
Go forth and multiply... and shoot anyone who disagrees with you
Fixed 
Greta Christina’s Blog: The Prop 8 Ruling: Discrimination as a Constitutional Principle
Posted by CyberLizard in Politics on May 27, 2009
Greta Christina’s Blog: The Prop 8 Ruling: Discrimination as a Constitutional Principle.
Greta manages to put her finger on the thing that was bothering me about this decision that I couldn’t manage to articulate:
See, this isn’t just about gay rights and marriage equality. This is about the principle that certain rights are inalienable. This is about the principle that, as important as democracy is, as important as it is for people to be able to vote on the laws and policies that govern them, certain rights transcend that principle, and cannot be taken away by majority rule. This is about the principle that there are limits to mob rule: that the fears and hatreds and prejudices of one class of people towards another cannot be inscribed into law. This is about the principle that people have every right to be bigots, but they do not have the right to write their bigotry into law… even if that bigotry is shared by the majority.
Lord, save me from your followers
Posted by CyberLizard in Politics, Religion on May 27, 2009
Reconnecting with old high school friends on Facebook is like walking through a cow pasture; you never know when you’re going to step into a pile of steaming crap. You may find out that someone you thought was cool back then now thinks this is one of their favorite quotes:
“Let’s invade their countries, kill their dictators and convert them to Christianity.” – Ann Coulter
And that they list their political views as “I will be an apologist for George W. Bush as long as I live”.
I just threw up a little bit in my mouth.
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