The art of keeping up with yesterday's blogging
Very scenic. And very crowded…
Macro shot of a flower…
Photologs are weblogs with pictures instead of words. David Gallagher has an article in Slate about them. I have added some photologs to my blogroll on the left. PhotoBlogs has a good list of photologs. PhotoDude is a fellow Atlantan who has photos as well as commentary on politics and other stuff on his website.
Juan Non-Volokh of the world’s 2nd biggest conspiracy talks about the Orwellian use of the term “homicide bomber” when suicide bomber more clearly expresses their action.
Bin Gregory notes that: Wahhabism is the ideology of discontent. A study just waiting to be conducted is to compare affilliation with wahhabism to lack of religious upbringing [outside of the gulf, of course]. My own observation is that wahhabism appeals more to those who were irreligious in their youth and are then “converted”, and… Continue reading Wahabis as Born-Again
Very interesting table from the Tax Policy Center about how the Bush tax cut of last year would affect the rich and the poor after it is all phased in. Overall, the change in after-tax income will be 1.8%. The richest 1% get 4.5% however. The worst-off: those in the bottom 20% as well as… Continue reading Bush Tax Cut
As CalPundit says, nobody in the US likes France. And it’s not just about politics. As a French friend of mine, now settled in the US, jokingly said, “France is a nice place but beware of those French people.” When we were going to France in the summer, everyone we knew told us how rude… Continue reading France
“Sin is incurable by the strength of man, nor does free will have any validity here, so that even the saints say: ‘The evil which I do not wish, this I do.’ ‘You are not doing the things which you wish.’ ‘Since my loins are filled with illusions,’ etc.” You are Martin Luther! Yeah, you… Continue reading What Christian Theologian Are You?
I am a graduate student in engineering at a public school in the Southeast US. My research interests are in image and video analysis, computer vision and graphics. Other than research and teaching, I like to camp and hike, travel and take photographs with my digital camera. I am also very much into science fiction,… Continue reading Who am I?
I just added a blogroll to the left of the blogs I read. As you can see, most of them deal with politics. I am very interested in politics and international affairs and waste a lot of time reading about it instead of working on my research. You’ll probably also notice that I am a… Continue reading Blogroll