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Readability for NetNewsWire

mattstocum — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:24:25 +0000

I’m a huge fan of Readability from Arc90 so I decided to cobble together a Readability style for NetNewsWire. It does a pretty good job of mimicking the Newspaper style with medium text and wide margins. There’s also a bit of JavaScript to shrink images so they don’t go outside the bounds of the text.

Testing

mattstocum — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:33:02 +0000

Just testing some blog/twitter crap.

Got Linux?

mattstocum — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:18:33 +0000

Got Active Directory?

Want them to play together?

Kerberos Your Enthusiasm

Turkey Durkey DUMB

mattstocum — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:37:19 +0000

I’m in DE, halp!

You got a good thing going baby

mattstocum — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:53:58 +0000

When I was in high school, I asked a girl out by quoting the line “I’d sure love to call you my girlfriend.” It was cute.

Not bad

mattstocum — Thu, 28 May 2009 02:00:30 +0000

12 miles in about 50 minutes, averaging 15mph for the ride. The first time I rode to Falls Bridge and back I was dead tired by the time I got home. Today was a good hard ride and I was … Continue reading →

Weapon of Choice

mattstocum — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:27:07 +0000

Moved…

mattstocum — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:57:50 +0000

FYI, if you go to the old address http://blagomatic.wafflehouse.org/ you should now be redirected to http://mattstocum.com/. Hopefully this will work without any problems.

Video from Sakura Sunday

mattstocum — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:57:44 +0000

What’s that strange yellow fruit again?

mattstocum — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:35:09 +0000

I’m watching part of the twin dumbasses of Ray and Kirk debate with the Rational Response Squad here, and one of the arguments Mr. Banana uses is essentially “everything has a creator, so god did it”. When he is asked, however, “what created god?” he’s perfectly comfortable with god being eternal, and having no beginning and no end. I’ve heard this same argument from countless Christians.

“Something had to have created the universe, therefor it was my specific god!”

“What created god?”

“God is eternal, he has always existed.”

“Why can’t the universe be eternal then?”

“Because everything needs a creator.”

I don’t understand how you can accept an eternal god, but not an eternal universe, especially when you consider how unbelievably complex god would have to be. The early days of the universe were incredibly simple, just a huge mess of energy. No matter, no light, no god, nothing but unsane heat. How do you rationalize the creation of something so simple with something as complex as an all-knowing, all-powerful being?

I just don’t get the argument, it’s amazingly weak. I’d have a much easier time if they just stipulated that their god was the god of Earth, or even just the god of Christianity. But for some reason, they need their god to be the god, the only god (ignoring the fact that the bible makes it pretty plain that Yahweh was the god of Israel, but not the only god).

If you want to believe in myths and fairy-tales, go for it, I’ll never change your mind. Just, please, don’t try to pretend you can prove your religion is true. You can’t, it’s not possible. Jesus could come back tomorrow, raise the dead, heal the sick, and show the Vatican what gold’s for. It still wouldn’t prove the existence of god, just a being more powerful than we are (or that I’ve gone completely insane).