Er, in the Konglish sense, where home town means “area from which one hails”. Here are some reasons to love my home province in Canada, which is Saskatoon. Actually, I don’t love the Roughriders, or many of the things on the list, but it’s neat to see the place being blogged about, just the same. (And the fact that the first general human rights act in North America was passed in Saskatchewan, before even the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights was passed.) The link was on The Worship Freehouse, a little religious collective in Saskatoon, my hometown, whose page …

(In case this shows up on Twitter or Facebook: this post is from 2005. I’m just publishing old posts that went unpublished, but should have been published…) * “The Pope’s health is not good.” Again, or is it still? What would happen if the Pope was completely batty from Alzheimer’s Syndrome or something? Not to wish it upon him, but the article I linked to said it’s impossible for the Pope to be asked to resign, though he may step down if he so chooses. (No pope has done so, however, according to the article, since the 13th Century.) Well, what …

Dear Starcraft Federation Headquarters, We have received your transmission, and regret to report that as a result, morale among the Federation troops is not good. Requesting permission to speak freely to the Starship Command Council, specific complaints of the troopers warrant the following observations.

At Project Implicit, you can test your biases in terms of age, race, gender, and sexuality. Quite an interesting method. I only tried the age test, and it claims something I already knew, that I have a “moderate automatic preference for Young relative to Old”. Still, it’s an interesting thing to try out. Link from transitus.

There’s been a lot of activity over at New Sophists’ Almanac, the other blog where I occasionally post. Marvin’s digging into something called Alpha Theory, and he, Hayden and I are discussing a paper by a Mr. Windschuttle which criticizes postmodernism. You can see it all, and join in, here.

More goodies from Weird is Relative. How your mom got your backbone right. How people get hypertension. How autistic people see faces. How to understand physics, with the help of Hans Bethe. How to do well in life: some advice from Milton Glaser. How it feels to (maybe) find a frozen sea on Mars. How to succeed as a superheroine. How to piss off the Las Vegas PTA. Where to approach cooking scientifically. Where to see the MidEast from fundamentally different perspectives at the same time. Where to look at cool old pics of New York. Where to get permission …