OddThinking

I am told it is World Homeopathy Awareness Week.

I can get behind that.

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Of all the various conflicting ideas that people believe, homeopathy is special, in that it is completely and throughly understood by science, by logic and reason, to be totally and utterly wrong.

The Copenhagen Declaration on Religion in Public Life; is this an pro-atheist or pro-libertarian democracy manifesto?

In which the author reveals his age, and reviews an old electronic game.

What would a Venusian think about zippers?

Bloglines, a web-based feed-aggregator has invited people to blog their feedback on their application (and on other products).

I’ll take the bait. I’ll admit to using Bloglines, and provide some feedback here.

I once found myself performing a cold-reading. It was an interesting experience, but I was left feeling uncomfortable.

A review of the Samsung D600 that focuses on things that Samsung doesn’t tell you.

Last Thursday, the Australian Treasurer, Peter Costello, made a speech, titled “Worth Promoting, Worth Defending: Australian Citizenship, what it means and how to nurture it.” I found the speech to be disappointing and mildly terrifying.

The thesis of the speech is that immigrants who come to Australia and become citizens should be sure to adopt Australian beliefs and values. If they don’t (and they are still citizens of another nation) they should have their Australian citizenship revoked.

I think there were several flaws in his argument, and I am annoyed enough to want to address them here.

I took the opportunity to ask a real estate agent about the House of Horror.

The answers I got were not exactly what I had in mind.

People who aren’t from Australia will be unfamiliar with the place of the Kangaroo in a great Australian ritual. This is an attempt to explain a small piece of the Australian culture.