] let me just say that, as a slashdot troll, i have a
] firewall which allows me to dynamically modify my o/s
] fingerprint, a highly adaptive cookie manager/poisoner
] that can decode many cookies in realtime (stop using
] urlencode!), a browser plugin that lets me modify my
] entire http header including user agent, a
] database-driven transparent proxy tracker which harvests
] new proxies 24/7, scripts to generate free email accounts
] by the 100's, good web scripting skills, and on a good
] day around 500 moderation points on slashdot from over
] 1,000 monitored accounts.

This is a really great discussion between a troll and a sysop. It really speaks to the fact that governance of an internet community is a very complex problem that shares many of the social dynamics of governance of a IRL community.

Trolls vs. Sysops...

A very interesting interview with Daniel Dennett about the nature of free will, choice, and the evolution of the brain and mind.

Pulling Our Own Strings: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on determinism

The King James Version presented from a skeptic's point of view.

Very interesting website... whether you "have religion" or you don't.. it's an interesting read about the discrepancies and whatnot found throughout the Bible.

Skeptic's Annotated Bible

Arxiv.org used to be xxx.lanl.gov, the official science pre-print server. Every physicist submits his article here *before* it's published. Makes for realtime science.

I will be posting recomendations, with my full analysis, on individual articles from arxiv soon. But for right now come bath in the healing light.

Read more about arxiv here: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000CAEA3-72CB-1E90-8EA5809EC5880000&catID=2

[werd - Nano]

arXiv.org e-Print archive

] Spinal muscular atrophy and the gene that causes it,
] along with several other serious genetic disorders, are
] common in Saudi Arabia, where women have an average of
] six children and where in some regions more than half of
] the marriages are between close relatives.
]
] Across the Arab world today an average of 45 percent of
] married couples are related, according to Dr. Nadia
] Sakati, a pediatrician and senior consultant for the
] genetics research center at King Faisal Specialist
] Hospital in Riyadh.

Saudi Arabia Awakes to the Perils of Inbreeding