Author: Jer Clarke

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haxx0r3d!

Ha Ha. I totally just got hacked by someone named “Net Devil”, who changed my front page to “nEt^DeViL OwNz Your Box!! *n0 w4r* *for the Old Times* for help net_devil@hackermail.com”.

This is embarrassing only because his name is so silly, and because the best he could do was a single line of text in an html file (I wonder if “Net Devil” even knows html?), dude, at least learn photoshop if you’re going to bother tagging people’s sites.

Anyway, all is normal again, thanks to Mira and Tom for pointing out the problem.

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God v. logic, over three hundred proofs for gods existence

ARGUMENT FROM CREATION

(1) If evolution is false, then creationism is true, and therefore God exists.
(2) Evolution can’t be true, since I lack the mental capacity to understand it; moreover, to accept its truth would cause me to be uncomfortable
(3) Therefore, God exists.

This kind of argument structuring is pretty much what I did all through my philosophy of religion classes. The logic of faith is so weak it’s depressing how easily the premise-conclusion relationship can be mocked.

(obviously some of these are unfair and oversimplified, but some are spot on (see esp. Ontological Argument I, it’s pretty much the base for them all))

Link (via. snowmit)

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music videos

bright eyes video of the best day of my life Does anyone remember when music videos were really good, when you’d sit down and see something really amazing and thought provoking, something that would make you smile, and maybe cry a little? I guess it was never like that, but there’s always a few really great ones that sneak through the system and blow you away, they mostly just don’t play on the tv.

Normally I find I can take or leave Bright Eyes, but it seems like M. Oberst has been sneaking around when I wasn’t looking, producing amazing videos and not telling anybody. If you’re only going to watch a couple of videos this week make sure at least one of them is “The First Day of My Life”. If you have another three and a half minutes, check out “Lover I Don’t Have to Love”, if only because the artisanship involved in faithfully reproducing the karaoke aesthetic, in it’s unflattering entirety, is worthy of infinite respect and admiration.

Link to First Day of My Life (pictured above).

Link to Lover I Don’t Have to Love.
(both are on a site that uses embedded WMVs at 300k. If it doesn’t work google around and you should be able to find something that does.)

Those first two links suck ass. If you can handle RealMedia files then try these instead:
Lover I don’t have to Love
First Day of My Life

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proactive goalsets – or – market research makes jer go crazy

proactive goalset - outlook art by jeremy clarke
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Still writing joke cover letters as if it was art? Forget it! To Do lists as self-expression is here, get with the program.

[note the use of mandatory Microsoft at work also makes jer go crazy. ]

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transhuman

transhuman - photo by jeremy clarke
(Note: The book pictured is Citizen Cyborg by James Hughes, a thoughtful and compelling nonfiction analysis of the effects technological progress is likely to have on human life and culture, and the political ramifications that have to be considered in light of them. It definitely has some transhumanist bias to it, presenting most nascent technologies as ultimately liberating, but it also focuses on the importance of democratically insuring that the technologies are universally available and regulated for safety, so that the doomsday predictions of the neo-luddites won’t have to come to pass. It’s accessible, eye-opening and exciting all at once.)

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