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There’s a stunning VoIP and IM service named fring, for your 3G cellphone running Symbian or Windows Mobile (hopefully more will be supported later, and 3G isn’t strictly necessary). Use it to phone your fring-using friends for “free” (paying only internet bandwidth, which is cheap, especially compared to phone calls). fring can also dial through [...]

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So how do you feel about “Please Call Me”’s?
It sounds to me like most people just ignore them, especially if they don’t know the number. Hehe, well, I’m a sucker. I always phone, even if I don’t have the number in my contacts… and I never do… and it’s always a wrong number. How absolutely [...]

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Read it. Just read it. Or maybe, if now is not the time to have your world shaken up, read it a little later, not right now. But do read it:
God is on a Milk Carton
Thanks to RLP for pointing it out. If you want a little quote, see RLP’s post on it. I don’t [...]

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Critical thinking, and the skeptical mindset, is great. What is really sad though, is when skepticism becomes the new popular perspective (maybe within a specific niche), and people accept any skeptical perspective someone presents, possibly just because the presenter “sounds smart”, and the sucker also wants to feel smart.
That is, of course, not being skeptical, [...]

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Opinions differ, in many fields. Surely something as simple as statistics have a “ground truth” though?
Hehe. Maybe not. I’m trying to wrap my mind about the differences between the classical definition of probability, the frequentist definition of probability, and Bayesian probability. All these links are Wikipedia links. The comparative article is Probability interpretations.
While I have [...]

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Four highlights from Real Live Preacher:

Your Uncle’s Third Nipple – RLP’s contribution to the “Creationism versus Evolution” absurdity
A New Abraham and a New Earth – tolerance, “HEY RELIGIOUS GUYS!”… get with the program! Hehe. Remains one of my favourites.
The Slippery Slope – everyone lives on a slippery slope of some sorts?
Cold Calling – this one [...]

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Publishing a blog is an interesting experience. Often it takes me less than a day to feel rather uncomfortable with what I wrote, other times a little longer. Looking back at old posts often gives me a rather uncomfortable feeling. (A quick aside: wow, déjà-vu…) Often I feel I want to delete some things I [...]

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