From National Geographic: Michael Phelps stands 6 feet 4 inches (193 centimeters) and weighs 195 pounds (88.5 kilograms), with the broad shoulders and slim waist common to the elite swimmer. But consider his body measurements a little closer and it becomes clearer why Phelps is dominating these Olympic Games. He has an extended trunk and […]

Hilarious: The comic potential is infinite…captions solicited. Actually, it seems like she’s really getting around: Mr. Clinton seems curiously absent… Posted by godless at 01:27 AM

Steve Sailer asks: Converting SAT scores into IQ scores: From the Boston Globe:To convert SAT scores from 1996 through this year to an IQ score, Professor Douglas Detterman of Case Western Reserve University provides this formula: (.095 X SAT Math) + (.003 X SAT Verbal) + 50.241 = IQ For SAT scores before 1996 — […]

First, a stat that may surprise you: Jews, on the other hand, are drifting toward the GOP. In 2002, the American Jewish Committee estimated that Jews are 2.1 percent of the U.S. population and 3.9 percent of Florida, also a swing state. A poll by Steven Cohen of Hebrew University found that almost half the […]

NY Times tries to spin this as negatively as possible. Check the headline: Bush Plans $1.5 Billion Drive for Promotion of Marriage… “This is a way for the president to address the concerns of conservatives and to solidify his conservative base,” a presidential adviser said. But better an ounce of prevention than a pound of […]

I run Red Hat 9 on a few Linux boxes, but now that it’s been a while since they’ve abandoned the non-enterprise user, I’ve been meaning to update…which means switching. I was wondering whether any of you guys had opinions on which distribution to migrate to. I’ve been thinking about Debian. Is the install really […]

For those of you who feel that I’m too paranoid about anonymity, or who believe that I’m somehow exaggerating the danger to my academic career by even posting here…you need to read this post. First, some background. XSteve and One People’s Project are organizations with a history of using Nuremberg Files type tactics, by publishing […]

Well, if Jane Galt is putting up a picture, I guess I might be able to do so as well. Here’s a shot from the not-so-distant past, to preserve a degree of plausible deniability: Probably not what you expected, huh?

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This is NOT worksafe (though no nudity), but it is worth watching just to gape at how different European advertising is from American advertising. And, uh, you can gape at other things too. Wow.

The human biodiversity revolution in discourse can not be stopped: Mr. Baker’s observations are common sense. Does anyone really think an Eskimo would perform as well in Wrigley Field in July as someone of African ancestry who has spent all but a speck of his evolutionary history along the equator? “The single most important factor […]

Ok – so anyone have any ideas on appropriate songs once we start kicking some iznass? (Yes, yes, glorifying blood-and-guts, I’ve heard it already a million times, so spare me the sanctimonious lecture…) So far I have: Most topical:-Outkast “Bombs over Baghdad” (of course)-Toby Keith “The Angry American” (we’ll put a boot in yer ass…it’s […]