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Soft science as you call it should not be conflated with astrology - like many other practices astrology is closer to a very ancient and wonderful art- that of separating people from their money, than it is to scientific investigation. But then perhaps i would say that, being a virgo.

[rises to feet] Extremely well said, sir, though I cannot agree, having been born under a different sign. Still, may I offer you a beer, or perhaps another affordable drink of your choice?*

* Offer redeemable only in rural Montana. Special conditions may apply, including extreme road trip or enduring Amtrack, tolerance for high prairie scenery, OSX evangelism, and secondary citizen status to the cats who run the place.

...for a co-irker...

I believe you may have misspelled "co-irker."

Don't Linux users already have all sorts of paraphernalia to celebrate their iconoclastic nature?

Who's going to notice another sticker in that mess?

http://www.zazzle.com/its_magically_delicious_tshirt-235495101056517852

e^2=m^2c^4+p^2c^2

Since I think it pretty much symbolizes all that is amazing about modern science. That mass and energy, mass and waves, everything, is fundamentally the same thing. That massless objects have energy just live massive objects. This is really why i hate the simplified form, as it does not express the full beauty of the world, only that we can make atomic bombs. I think the full equation would remind me that the world is not as simple as some want it to be, but still reducible and beautiful.

Though some people think that integrals and the like are sexy, so I would include some of those. And maybe some div and grad, maybe the god said type thing.

And then the bra-ket stuff is always fun.

They are just trying to protect their newest genetic engineering masterpiece, the pigacorn ("the other flying one horned white meat"!)

http://www.zazzle.com/pigacorn_tshirt-235137265974671836

See also: http://www.zazzle.com/css_is_awesome_mug-168716435071981928

There you go... just for you!
http://www.zazzle.com/ie6_never_forget_tshirt-235264592789806116

And I think political speech should not contain music.

That's a strange distinction... No music... Can the politician hum (an opponent's tune)? Reminds me of something:

• DONKEY: (singing) On the road again. Sing it with me, Shrek. I can't wait to get on the road again.
• SHREK: What did I say about singing?
• DONKEY: Can I whistle?
• SHREK: No.
• DONKEY: Can I hum it?
• SHREK: All right, hum it.

Donkey begins to hum 'On the Road Again'.

What about other forms of art? Can graphics by an opponent's supporter be used to mock the opponent? Or does this guy owe Shepard Fairey, in your opinion?

Hello: Time for me to fight the LHC propaganda machine with my own efforts. The unified standard model doesn't need the Higgs mechanism. http://www.zazzle.com/the_stand_up_physicist_said_tshirt-235942932145293980

Ok, I consider myself a pretty sharp guy, and I've been working with the web for ages, but I still can't use CSS without running into major problems every single time. Some of them are design issues, some of them are just me not being able to wrap my head around it.

For example, CSS doesn't have variables... so you can't say something like "headerColor = #5444BB" and just use that wherever you want the header color. What were they thinking!?

CSS also can't do math, so a simple construct like "width = 10px + 5em" is impossible. (You can't do this without math because the number of pixels in an em can change based on browser/font settings.) What were they thinking!?

The first thing I need in my CSS site is columns, you know, like newspapers had in the 17th century. What? You mean CSS has no support for columns until version 3, which is only now beginning to get any browser support at all? The only way to get columns is kludgy workarounds. What were they thinking!?

Design issues aside, I usually end up with a page where there's a completely unexplainable pixel gap, or an element wrapping when it shouldn't, or some thing or another. Usually, the only way I can solve these problems amounts to, basically, guess and check... maybe I'm an idiot, but the way CSS does layouts just won't fit in my head at all.

Obligatory link to "CSS is awesome" mug: http://www.zazzle.com/css_is_awesome_mug-168716435071981928

Did you just suggest people who agree with the scientific consensus on climate change "can't add"? I'm surprised someone who hates science so much would support NASA

No, of course not, this no longer has anything to do with science, which is what is so often missed. At this point the debate is entirely about economics and politics and resultant courses of action.

There's one simple question to ask, "how much CO2 decrease is needed to decrease AGW by 1 degree C?" If you run the numbers, it's about 2T-tons of CO2. If you then run the amount of CO2 produced by human economies, it runs out that we're talking about 20 years of economic inactivity to impact 1 degree C, and the IPCC is forecasting 3.5 degrees this century. So, to mitigate AGW, you have to take incredibly drastic steps to squash economies or invent free clean power. And that's not even counting the less developed nations who will continue to increase their populations (and thus CO2 output) prodigiously if their standards of living aren't improved. To adapt to AGW is far more economical (feasible, even), and this is the political power struggle currently being played out (Kyoto, Copenhagen, "Captain Trade", etc.).

Reasonable approaches only appear to include safe nuclear power or dealing with the consequences of AGW. Heck, you can get the bumper sticker if you want.

Of course, if those NASA satellites show that the high-CO2-sensitivity model upon which most of the science is predicated don't turn up the expected results, then perhaps the whole matter is up for revision.

kind of like wearing a tshirt with a weird slogan on it to the interview, although certainly not so severe.

How about these wearing a shirt that says "NSFW"?

http://www.zazzle.com/nsfw+tshirts
http://www.force18.co.uk/nsfw-tshirt-p-451.html
http://www.kaboodle.com/reviews/nsfw--t-shirt--xl

Oh well, maybe one ought to go for "Will work for Mana."

http://www.geeklabel.com/show_category.php?cat=ccg+tcg

Mouse over picture,
Tooltip appears.
Read message it carries
All will be made clear.
Burma Shave.

But what tooltip do you get for this T-shirt?

there you go sport: http://www.zazzle.com/your_tie_to_alquaeda-151127329667309742

It also studies polotics, which seems to be about T-shirts (not polo shirts as you might think).

But this t-shirt will transform your life!

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Welcome to the Union of Soviet Capitalist Republics!

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• Finance industry
• Defense and weapons industry
• Petroleum and enegry industries, foreign and domestic
• Drug traffickers, legal and illegal
• Large-scale engineering firms

These are the main groups that receive fantastic favors from the government. The rest of us just pay for it all.

You may think I'm full of shit, a conspiracy-theorizing lunatic, or just some slashdot crank. Maybe so. Check your data before you get too smug about it, though.

Welcome, Comrades!

Welcome to the Union of Soviet Capitalist Republics!

• Finance industry
• Defense and weapons industry
• Petroleum and enegry industries, foreign and domestic
• Drug traffickers, legal and illegal
• Large-scale engineering firms

These are the main groups that receive fantastic favors from the government. The rest of us just pay for it all.

You may think I'm full of shit, a conspiracy-theorizing lunatic, or just some slashdot crank. Maybe so. Check your data before you get too smug about it, though.

Welcome, Comrades!

Welcome to the Union of Soviet Capitalist Republics!

Yes and no. There are a lot of webcomic creators (myself included) attempting to do this for better or worse.

Yes, intermediaries take a cut of our proceeds, but in exchange they provide a certain level of convenience - I can own a $300+ button-making machine and sell my own buttons as they're ordered online / at conventions, or I can focus on just making buttons for conventions (when I can make a reasonable estimate of how much I need at that time, hence can make a bunch at once on someone else's machine for just the cost of the buttons) and leave the online work to Zazzle, which does (in addition to buttons), several other items I can make and sell using the same images, with no upfront costs.

At no time do I give up my copyrights to these images, so I can use them elsewhere, and if it doesn't work out, I haven't lost any money in the process.

Ideally, other POD systems or small-scale operations like Amazon's recent offerings make it EASIER for me to stand alone with marketing my work, by reducing the cost and issues with fulfillment.

A LOT of these creator-run operations don't have the time or money to run marketing research to decide if it's a good idea to make a hundred shirts, or X number of books (The cost per unit goes down as you order more, but at the same time, if it doesn't sell, it's just wasted product) so the solution requires a system that carries its own burden for the creator to reduce waste as much as possible.

We COULD do work without them... but then the game goes to the ones already big enough to handle their own fulfillment, or the ones foolish enough to invest lots of money in it before doing their homework. I'd rather have 'em than not.

Welcome, Comrades! Welcome to the Glorious Union of Soviet Capitalist Republics!

CSS is Awesome!

It's a joke, I love CSS. :)

Depends if they were able to make the baskets.

This would seem to be evidence that they could...

Welcome to the Union of Soviet Capitalist Republics!

Welcome to the Union of Soviet Capitalist Republics!

My license expires this year. I am TOTALLY wearing this t-shirt when I renew!

and that's about it

What happens on the holodeck, stays on the holodeck.

Welcome to the Glorious Union of Soviet Capitalist Republics!

Welcome to the Glorious Union of Soviet Capitalist Republics!

Welcome to the Glorious Union of Soviet Capitalist Republics!

Welcome to the Glorious Union of Soviet Capitalist Republics!

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/251093/Report_Women_Lie_Better_Than_Men

I wonder how many of the McCain|MILF 2008 shirts have been turning up at rallies...

It's not even Palin's BS count that bugs me, it's how utterly moronic I find her stated views regardless of their honesty. I wouldn't trust her to run a bakesale. She hasn't been getting all that much face time on Australian TV, but there's been enough to make me shudder. http://www.palinaspresident.com/ might be a bit tongue in cheek, but not nearly enough for my comfort.

I'm not necessarily much of a Biden fan either, but he does get experience points and I like that he's one of the least wealthy senators in the country on top of that. My (admittedly underinformed but who cares, I'm foreign) opinion is that he looks like he'd be a solid administrator, as opposed to Cheney's role as shadowy puppetmaster.

Yes, some of us are far more efficient when we allow our focus to stretch beyond one thing.

i like the idea of putting up raytraced art, but it can be tough to find tasteful CG art. i've always been a fan of giles tran.

PLEASE do not put up any fractals or 3d plots. it's a disservice to CS.

[POV-Ray galleries] So what you're saying is.... metallic spheres on checkerboards? ;-)

That's so 80's. Now there's pirate ships, Lochness Monsters, bonsai tree gardens, light-houses, gargoyles, etc. At this link they are purchasable as posters:

http://www.zazzle.com/products/gallery/POVcomp.asp

Another approach is the "short code contest" (link below). This is where the contestant has to limit the size of the POV code that generates the image. Along with the image, perhaps on a plaque below, you could post the POV code (equation) that generates it. That would show the both beauty and the technology (math) behind it.

http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/exhibition/scc3/final/

Sure, the "short code" contest is a bit closer to the "silver sphere on a checkered board" kind of themes, but that alone does not make it bad, especially if you can show the equation with it. Show both: the complex ones (no plague) and the short-code ones with equation plagues.

His artwork is great, much of it done with POV-Ray. He's got a zazzle page here. His website is pretty fascinating as well.

Shit, you can potentially get sent to jail for years for copying a DVD for personal use!

"Though is some places"

Here is a picture of the City of Though" I'm sure there are places named Through.

"apparently in Nevada it is not."

This would seem to be true, I can't find a place named Though in Nevada, nor one called Apparently.

Sometimes you need a little finesse, and sometimes you need a LART.

HOW F*CKING HARD is it to make a secure voting machine?!?

If one makes the foolish initial decision to use an inherently untrustable device like a computer in the first place, then it comes down to one's choice of an operating system. Diebold chose Windows CE.

Found this one.. http://www.zazzle.com/minimalistees/product/235630 997734579264

You can make custom USPS stamps at http://www.zazzle.com/custom/stamps and they don't say anything about those limitations.

Apparently I'm in a mood to crack myself up today. Must be the excellent green tea.

So I made myself a bumper sticker with the above comment title, a sunshine icon, and ITER.org. If anybody else wants to help spread the Word about ITER and fusion, Zazzle will happily sell you a copy for $4.

Don't worry trolls, nobody's getting rich here.

Quite a few actually - you've probably just never heard of them:

• BlinkSale invoicing (which I actually pay for)
• BaseCamp and half a dozen other 37signals services.
• Zimbra webmail
• Zazzle
• Tons more that i'm not linking to...

Or did you mean "free" Gary McKinnon T-shirt

Or did you mean "free" Gary McKinnon T-shirt

Or did you mean "free" Gary McKinnon T-shirt