Salam Pax is the psuedonym of a blogger in Bagdhad. Here’s some deductive work to support his legitamacy.

I imagine his postings won’t last much longer as his ISP, not to mention power, is probalby not long for this world. If you find commentary that isn’t absolutely pro-American objectionable, you might want to avoid his blog. He doesn’t seem too fond of America and is opposed to the war. Nonetheless, it’s facisnating reading. The Internet is an amazing thing.

Take care, Salam Pax. Good luck.

Even the transformers are against him. “Optimus Prime is heading out to the Middle East…”

Three Kenyans have died in what may be the worst possible way to die. Ever. The worst place if nothing else.

Geeze, just get a new phone already lady.

MUST read this…

Stupidest news story ever.

It’s my new favoritest tv show. It’s on Showtime and the website is here.

It’s all about debunking, well …bullshit. So far, I’ve seen three episodes and all of them have been brilliant. In the first, they debunked “speaking with the dead.” You know, that crap that John Edwards and the like pull on TV. Cold reading, con artists, etc. They actually had a guy that used to do it help them.

The next show I saw featured second hand smoke and baby products. A particularly interesting show, since P&T don’t smoke and find it distasteful but still decided to expose some of the anti-second-hand smoke bs. They also tackled some of the goofy baby products out there that well-meaning parents spend their cash on. (Baby Mozart was a good example.)

The last one I saw was about Feng Shui and bottled water. I was so happy to watch something anti-Feng Shui that I almost cried. I think Feng Shui is a load of ancient Chinese crap. (As Penn put it, “Feng Shui is Chinese for con job.”) They had three different Feng Shui people come in and work on a house at different times. They almost always contradicted each other. Pretty funny stuff.

So far, there have been seven episodes aired but they appear to be rerunning them even though they aren’t done with the season yet. (Yay! That means I have a chance to see the four I missed: “Alternative Medicine”, “Alien Abductions”, “End Of The World” and “Sex, Sex, Sex”). The next one is on “Creationism”. From the website: “This episode features a look into a Georgia school board debate.” Should be interesting. Hot topic.

For the record: The show is called “Bullshit”, because if P&T call people liars they might get sued. However, you can call them “motherfuckers” and what they do “bullshit” and your’e safe. Heh. Gotta love lawyers.

Sometimes the process of learning is a lot of fun. Like my most recent Adv. UNIX class. Good instructor, friends in the class, interesting material, etc.

Sometimes, though… sometimes learning is a pain in the ass. Espcially when it’s something I want to know, but isn’t that interesting. My current example of that would be CSS. I really need to catch up with the times on web tech and learn to use CSS… but blah. It’s just so boring. Even in my geekiest moments I just don’t give a flying…

Anyhow. I was just daydreaming about being able to learn the way they did in the Matrx (and a few other cyberpunk-style worlds) where you can just ‘download’ the info to your brain. THAT would be cool.

“I know CSS.”

As of today, .af is in the hands of the Afghani government. It’s the top level country domain for Afghanistan. You know, that country where the internet (along with other stuff like shaving and women) was banned not too long ago. .af has been around a while, but because of state of the country it’s been sort of on ice. Obligatory news linkage. (I think the “f” in .af is for Fuck You, Taliban.)

Now, a bit of advice to the people of Afghanistan: The internet is a wonderful medium. You can learn all sorts of great information and talk to all sorts of interesting people. Hell, email alone will get you a better mortgage, a university diploma, an international driver’s license, larger breasts and a bigger penis. You’ll be able to do all that while making MONEY FAST and LOSING 25LBS IN A WEEK. I’ll let you discover all about the horny lesbians and such on your own. <wink, wink, nudge, nudge>

You think Roger Ebert is critical of movies? You should read his article about the pledge. Quite insightful.

A cult member showed up on my doorstep this morning. I really think cult members should have to walk around LOOKING like cult members. You know, with robes and stuff.

Scientologists seem to think that it’s a religion, but I’m pretty sure it’s a greedy, lying, and all around evil cult. Lots of good reading stuffs on the subject.

I think when true Evil (yes, capital E) knocks on your door interrupts your lunch you should be allowed to shoot it.