You want nonconformity? 17 Jul 2007 You Are 94% Non Conformist You’re incredibly strange. And a weirdness like yours takes skill to cultivate! No one really understands you. And you’re cool with that. You just hope you never have to understand them! Are You a Nonconformist? Via Larry via Mike, both of whom I beat hollow on weirdness. Humor
Ecology and Biodiversity A tax on gorilla iconography? Oh noes… 27 Dec 2007 Greg Laden is reporting that Rwanda is taxing companies that use gorillas in their advertising, in order to pay for their conservation. Unfortunately, or fortunately if you are an albino silverback in Australia, this only applies to Rwandan companies. Or maybe I would happily pay a tax to the Rwandan… Read More
Humor Where *can* we put a mosque? 28 Aug 2010 So, if the critics of the mosque in NY are correct, that we should not put a religious institution near a place where anyone even remotely connected with that religion may have committed an act that leads to a place being thought “sacred”, where can we put one? I did… Read More
General Science Indifferentialism 30 Jun 2009 The Sensuous Curmudgeon has a new (old) take on the accommodationism debate: indifference. To quote him/her/them: Our position is to totally disregard what we consider to be a sectarian disagreement among various denominations about whether scripture should be read in a manner to deny verifiable information about reality. One might… Read More
93%. I’m somewhat risk-averse, so that probably knocked off a couple of points. But then, on reflection, I think my definition of “risk” may be a bit idiosyncratic.
96% for me too. Odd, since I never thought of myself as non-conformist. And I’m not sayin’ what I raise.
96% for me too. Odd, since I never thought of myself as non-conformist. And I’m not sayin’ what I raise.
A paltry 83%. :o( A well, I didn’t expect to do better than a practicing philosopher. It was that 9 to 5 question.
A paltry 83%. :o( A well, I didn’t expect to do better than a practicing philosopher. It was that 9 to 5 question.