So this guy named Ted Breaux reverse engineered old samples of absinthe from before it was banned. Microbiologist guy, proved it wasn’t toxic in ways previously believed. you know, stuff like that.

Caring for Your Introvert is a good article on why staying home alone on Saturday nights isn’t some sign of something bad or wrong after all. via Weird is Relative.

On his website, Why Does God Hate Amputees?, Marshall Brain takes the theodicy to a whole new, personal level. While some of his criticisms depend upon a rather unsophisticated form of belief — assuming the Bible is the literal writing of God — he does raise some questions which I think most Biblical literalists would have a lot of trouble answering without sounding crazy.

None of the contributors to this Guardian Article, Can you trust Wikipedia? seem to get that Wikipedia’s merit is that a person like them, with the knowledge, can edit the thing, contirbuting in some small way to the repair of the encyclopedia. It’s not just currently a draft version, but it is conceivably a continually improvable version, of the encyclopedia. Of course, it would be nice if Wikipedia could afford to pay experts to spend a year going through all subjects in their speciality, but even as it is now, it’s a pretty good starting point for background information on …