Conspiracy Factory: 2009

Friday, May 29, 2009

Friday beautiful science

This is the inside of the National Ignition Facility, a wicked cool new fusion research facility dedicated today. They've got FRICKEN' LAZER BEAMS! 192 of 'em.

Friday, May 22, 2009

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Oh my...

This is Conspiracy Factory business of the highest order. You can tell by the call for bookburning towards the end:

A Note About Google Ads

Google Ads seems to place the most obnoxious ads at the top of my blog. When I write a few posts about how acupuncture has been demonstrated not to work, it places an advertisement for acupuncture. When I write about creationist frauds, it puts up ads for creationist books (or more recently, for creationist movies).

I don't endorse these products. In many cases, I think it likely that the marketers are not only mistaken, but frauds.

I thought about taking these ads down, but instead, I'm leaving them there. I'm considering them an anthropology experiment for me, and my readers. It's a fascinating world out there. Feel free to comment on the ads and the products they are selling in the relevant posts.

I enjoy the irony that people like Ben Stein and Gary Null will be paying me to take Mrs. Factician out for a nice dinner (at current click rates, about once every 18 months).