Some links in reference to my last post -
http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/ (*Greasemonkey homepage*)
http://rb286.blogspot.com/ (*Scrapbook flooder*)
http://platypus.mozdev.org/
(*another firefox extension - make changes to a page and save then as a javascript in GM...how cool is that?*)
userscripts.org (*thousands of community made javascripts*)
Sunday, April 8, 2007
how the monkey tamed the fox
It surprising how a sequence of actions in a normal days work can end in a completely different domain from where it started. I am not talking philosophy or zoology here as it may appear..this is a tale of Orkut, fake profiles, scrapbook flooding and the weirdest monkey..
Well it started last week when a jobless orkut crazy pal of mine got the very innovative idea of creating a fake profile of a girl and started scrapping everyone. Well it also turns out that people here at a sub level are very technologically challenged. So, I decided to use a quite (in)famous scrapbook flooding technique from the web to flood this guys scrapbook :making public his deeds. This seemed nothing short of magic(maybe I am being a little too imaginative....but what the hell..its my blog) to the guy and for a person whose religion is orkut...this was a blasphemy and he literally sat that night and deleted all the flooded scraps...too bad I had not gone into 1000s...
But during execution what happened was...I had to IM my friend in Kanpur to ask exactly how to use the flooder...and he mentioned in passing an extension in firefox by the name of Greasemonkey. I had heard of it .. but hadnt quite checked it out. (You wouldd be surprised how ignorant ppl even in IIT can be.) When I finally checked it out..seems its a really great extension that can run a javascript(user created/downloaded) on specifically designated specific pages(decided by the javascript) . So you can basically edit a page or preprocess it locally before viewing it! Imagine skinning every page you see on web, removing adds, and a load of other stuff(scrapbook flooding anyone?)..
But the best part is the vibrant community behind the extension...making available thousands of scripts to download...this is going to keep me busy for a while!
Well it started last week when a jobless orkut crazy pal of mine got the very innovative idea of creating a fake profile of a girl and started scrapping everyone. Well it also turns out that people here at a sub level are very technologically challenged. So, I decided to use a quite (in)famous scrapbook flooding technique from the web to flood this guys scrapbook :making public his deeds. This seemed nothing short of magic(maybe I am being a little too imaginative....but what the hell..its my blog) to the guy and for a person whose religion is orkut...this was a blasphemy and he literally sat that night and deleted all the flooded scraps...too bad I had not gone into 1000s...
But during execution what happened was...I had to IM my friend in Kanpur to ask exactly how to use the flooder...and he mentioned in passing an extension in firefox by the name of Greasemonkey. I had heard of it .. but hadnt quite checked it out. (You wouldd be surprised how ignorant ppl even in IIT can be.) When I finally checked it out..seems its a really great extension that can run a javascript(user created/downloaded) on specifically designated specific pages(decided by the javascript) . So you can basically edit a page or preprocess it locally before viewing it! Imagine skinning every page you see on web, removing adds, and a load of other stuff(scrapbook flooding anyone?)..
But the best part is the vibrant community behind the extension...making available thousands of scripts to download...this is going to keep me busy for a while!
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Athiest philosophies....
I am not an atheist myself ( I claim to be agnostic but not even sure of that).. but this compilation by a certain guy named Sood was still a thought provoking one( and a little humorous)....
Is god willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him god.
- Epicurus
"When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.![]()
"
- Peter O'toole.
"Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense."
-Chapman Cohen
"Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived."
-Isaac Asimov
"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."
Frank Lloyd Wright.
Architect
"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."
Friedrich Nietzsche
(German classical Scholar, Philosopher and Critic of culture, 1844-1900.)
"Theists and Atheists are not much different. Both are ignorant. Theists just are ignorant about their own ignorance too."
-NH
"Theists and Atheists are not much different. Both are ignorant. Theists just are ignorant about their own ignorance too."
-NH
"From all the miracles Theists always refer to, the one I find most impressive is the transubstatiation of words."
-NH
"Science is when you make up questions and then try to find out the answers.
Religion is when you make up answers and then try to find out the questions."
-NH
"Most kids are often told by their parents they should not believe in imaginary friends. Looking at the adults, it's clearly not working."
- NH
"Out of convicted rapists, 57% admitted to reading pornography. 95% admitted to reading the Bible."
-Author unknown
"Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy. "
- Carl Sagan
"The only excuse for god is that he doesn't exist." - Nietzsche
Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." - Steven Weinberg
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
"The foolish reject what they see and not what they think; the wise reject what they think and not what they see."
"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike."
"It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image."
* A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
* It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it is true.
- Bertrand Russel
Everyone who believes in telekinesis, raise my hand.
- James Randi
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
- George Carlin
* The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that doesn't seem to owe anything to evidence or reason, but which, nevertheless, he feels as totally compelling and convincing. We doctors refer to such a belief as "faith."
* Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests".
* Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
* I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
- Richard Dawkins
"It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be."
Philosophy is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat.
Metaphysics is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat that isn't there.
Theology is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat that isn't there and shouting "I found it!"
"It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. ... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
— Albert Einstein
"Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night."
Horace Greeley.
"One who doesn't believe in himself believes in God"
— Aravind Chandrasekaran
"The fool says in his heart: 'There is no God.' The Wise Man says it to the world."
— Troy Witte
"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear."
- Thomas Jefferson
Is god willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him god.
- Epicurus
"When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.
- Peter O'toole.
"Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense."
-Chapman Cohen
"Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived."
-Isaac Asimov
"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."
Frank Lloyd Wright.
Architect
"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."
Friedrich Nietzsche
(German classical Scholar, Philosopher and Critic of culture, 1844-1900.)
"Theists and Atheists are not much different. Both are ignorant. Theists just are ignorant about their own ignorance too."
-NH
"Theists and Atheists are not much different. Both are ignorant. Theists just are ignorant about their own ignorance too."
-NH
"From all the miracles Theists always refer to, the one I find most impressive is the transubstatiation of words."
-NH
"Science is when you make up questions and then try to find out the answers.
Religion is when you make up answers and then try to find out the questions."
-NH
"Most kids are often told by their parents they should not believe in imaginary friends. Looking at the adults, it's clearly not working."
- NH
"Out of convicted rapists, 57% admitted to reading pornography. 95% admitted to reading the Bible."
-Author unknown
"Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy. "
- Carl Sagan
"The only excuse for god is that he doesn't exist." - Nietzsche
Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." - Steven Weinberg
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
"The foolish reject what they see and not what they think; the wise reject what they think and not what they see."
"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike."
"It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image."
* A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
* It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it is true.
- Bertrand Russel
Everyone who believes in telekinesis, raise my hand.
- James Randi
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
- George Carlin
* The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that doesn't seem to owe anything to evidence or reason, but which, nevertheless, he feels as totally compelling and convincing. We doctors refer to such a belief as "faith."
* Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests".
* Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
* I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
- Richard Dawkins
"It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be."
Philosophy is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat.
Metaphysics is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat that isn't there.
Theology is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat that isn't there and shouting "I found it!"
"It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. ... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
— Albert Einstein
"Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night."
Horace Greeley.
"One who doesn't believe in himself believes in God"
— Aravind Chandrasekaran
"The fool says in his heart: 'There is no God.' The Wise Man says it to the world."
— Troy Witte
"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear."
- Thomas Jefferson
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