Alamo 6

Guitar Hero

Written by Mireia Pérez on 20:57

Se celebra el día de la tercera paella desastrosa, perpetrada por una valenciana que ni es fallera ni come marisco, hoy en el Álamo. Con un monton de amigos de Sara que se la comen sin rechistar y cantidades ingentes de dulce que somos incapaces de comer.

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A LIST OF FALLACIOUS ARGUMENTS

Written by ANY GIVEN LORD OF LOO LOO on 14:55

* Ad Hominem (Argument To The Man)
* Affirming The Consequent
* Amazing Familiarity
* Ambiguous Assertion
* Appeal To Anonymous Authority
* Appeal To Authority
* Appeal To Coincidence
* Appeal To Complexity
* Appeal To False Authority
* Appeal To Force
* Appeal To Pity (Appeal to Sympathy, The Galileo Argument)
* Appeal To Widespread Belief (Bandwagon Argument, Peer Pressure, Appeal To Common Practice)
* Argument By Dismissal
* Argument By Emotive Language (Appeal To The People)
* Argument By Fast Talking
* Argument By Generalization
* Argument By Gibberish (Bafflement)
* Argument By Half Truth (Suppressed Evidence)
* Argument By Laziness (Argument By Uninformed Opinion)
* Argument By Personal Charm
* Argument By Pigheadedness (Doggedness)
* Argument By Poetic Language
* Argument By Prestigious Jargon
* Argument By Question
* Argument By Repetition (Argument Ad Nauseam)
* Argument by Rhetorical Question
* Argument By Scenario
* Argument By Selective Observation
* Argument By Selective Reading
* Argument By Slogan
* Argument By Vehemence
* Argument From Adverse Consequences (Appeal To Fear, Scare Tactics)
* Argument From Age (Wisdom of the Ancients)
* Argument From Authority
* Argument From False Authority
* Argument From Small Numbers
* Argument From Spurious Similarity
* Argument Of The Beard
* Argument To The Future
* Bad Analogy
* Begging The Question (Assuming The Answer, Tautology)
* Burden Of Proof
* Causal Reductionism (Complex Cause)
* Changing The Subject (Digression, Red Herring, Misdirection, False Emphasis)
* Cliche Thinking
* Common Sense
* Complex Question (Tying)
* Confusing Correlation And Causation
* Disproof By Fallacy
* Equivocation
* Error Of Fact
* Euphemism
* Exception That Proves The Rule
* Excluded Middle (False Dichotomy, Faulty Dilemma, Bifurcation)
* Extended Analogy
* Failure To State
* Fallacy Of Composition
* Fallacy Of Division
* Fallacy Of The General Rule
* Fallacy Of The Crucial Experiment
* False Cause
* False Compromise
* Genetic Fallacy (Fallacy of Origins, Fallacy of Virtue)
* Having Your Cake (Failure To Assert, or Diminished Claim)
* Hypothesis Contrary To Fact
* Inconsistency
* Inflation Of Conflict
* Internal Contradiction
* Least Plausible Hypothesis
* Lies
* Meaningless Questions
* Misunderstanding The Nature Of Statistics (Innumeracy)
* Moving The Goalposts (Raising The Bar, Argument By Demanding Impossible Perfection)
* Needling
* Non Sequitur
* Not Invented Here
* Outdated Information
* Pious Fraud
* Poisoning The Wells
* Psychogenetic Fallacy
* Reductio Ad Absurdum
* Reductive Fallacy (Oversimplification)
* Reifying
* Short Term Versus Long Term
* Slippery Slope Fallacy (Camel's Nose)
* Special Pleading (Stacking The Deck)
* Statement Of Conversion
* Stolen Concept
* Straw Man (Fallacy Of Extension)
* Two Wrongs Make A Right (Tu Quoque, You Too)
* Weasel Wording

Some other Web sites:

* Critical thinking vs. Specious arguments
* The Nizkor Project
* Propaganda Techniques Related to Environmental Scares
* Logical Fallacies
* Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum Project
* The Atheism Web: Logic & Fallacies
* South Shore Skeptics
* Introductory Logic
* Elementary Logic
* Practical skepticism
* Bruce Thompson's Fallacy Page
* Critical Thinking On The Web
* Conversational Terrorism: How NOT to Talk !
* Love is a Fallacy, a funny short story by Max Shulman.
* How to Win Any Argument On The Internet, a cheerfully obscene guide to flaming.
* How to Argue and Win every time. Alcohol and lying appear to be involved.

Recently added and changed entries:

* Argument By Dismissal
* Argument By Vehemence

* Affirming The Consequent
* Argument By Emotive Language (Appeal To The People)
* Misunderstanding The Nature Of Statistics (Innumeracy)
* Moving The Goalposts (Raising The Bar, Argument By Demanding Impossible Perfection)
* Not Invented Here

SOURCE:

www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html

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Content-Aware

Written by Callas on 17:10

Una muestra de la nueva herramienta estrella del photoshop cs5:

Horas y horas de trabajo de postproducción ahorradas con esta aplicación no? Pues parece que no sólo va a ser capaz de hacer estas cosas sino muchas otras:

Genial!

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SPELL OF THE YUKON

Written by ANY GIVEN LORD OF LOO LOO on 1:35

By Robert W. Service

I wanted the gold, and I sought it,
I scrabbled and mucked like a slave.
Was it famine or scurvy — I fought it;
I hurled my youth into a grave.

I wanted the gold, and I got it —
Came out with a fortune last fall, —
Yet somehow life’s not what I thought it,
And somehow the gold isn't all.
No! There’s the land. (Have you seen it?)

It’s the cussedest land that I know,
From the big, dizzy mountains that screen it
To the deep, deathlike valleys below.

Some say God was tired when He made it;
Some say it’s a fine land to shun;

Maybe; but there’s some as would trade it

For no land on earth — and I'm one.
You come to get rich (damned good reason);
You feel like an exile at first;
You hate it like hell for a season,
And then you are worse than the worst.

It grips you like some kinds of sinning;
It twists you from foe to a friend;
It seems it’s been since the beginning;
It seems it will be to the end.

I've stood in some mighty-mouthed hollow
That’s plumb-full of hush to the brim;
I've watched the big, husky sun wallow
In crimson and gold, and grow dim,

Till the moon set the pearly peaks gleaming,
And the stars tumbled out, neck and crop;
And I've thought that I surely was dreaming,
With the peace o' the world piled on top.

The summer — no sweeter was ever;
The sunshiny woods all athrill;
The grayling aleap in the river,
The bighorn asleep on the hill.
The strong life that never knows harness;
The wilds where the caribou call;
The freshness, the freedom, the farness —

O God! how I'm stuck on it all.
The winter! the brightness that blinds you,
The white land locked tight as a drum,
The cold fear that follows and finds you,
The silence that bludgeons you dumb.
The snows that are older than history,
The woods where the weird shadows slant;

The stillness, the moonlight, the mystery,
I've bade 'em good-by — but I can't.
There’s a land where the mountains are nameless,
And the rivers all run God knows where;
There are lives that are erring and aimless,
And deaths that just hang by a hair;
There are hardships that nobody reckons;
There are valleys unpeopled and still;
There’s a land — oh, it beckons and beckons,
And I want to go back — and I will.

They're making my money diminish;
I'm sick of the taste of champagne.
Thank God! when I'm skinned to a finish
I'll pike to the Yukon again.
I'll fight — and you bet it’s no sham-fight;
It’s hell! — but I've been there before;
And it’s better than this by a damsite —

So me for the Yukon once more.
There’s gold, and it’s haunting and haunting;
It’s luring me on as of old;
Yet it isn't the gold that I'm wanting
So much as just finding the gold.
It’s the great, big, broad land 'way up yonder,

It’s the forests where silence has lease;
It’s the beauty that thrills me with wonder,
It’s the stillness that fills me with peace.

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THE "S" FROM HELL

Written by ANY GIVEN LORD OF LOO LOO on 21:42

A documentary-cum-horror film about the scariest corporate symbol in history, the 1964 Screen Gems logo, aka The S From Hell. Built around interviews with survivors still traumatized from viewing the logo after shows like Bewitched or The Monkees, the film brings their stories to life with animation, found footage, and reenactments

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