unreasonable.org

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw

unreasonable.org is Tom Swiss's site for opinion, commentary, and news.

Partly it's his blog, partly it's an archive of things he's written and information he's collected in over 15 years of being active in net discussion forums of various types (USENET, mailing lists, Slashdot, etcetera).

And if you share some of his interests, it can also be your site too. Everyone can submit stories for us to consider, and add comments to stories here, subject to moderation; registered users can host blogs, and submit comments without initial review, as well as customize various features of the site.

We have an RSS feed (http://unreasonable.org/node/feed), so you can keep up with us through your favorite aggregator. You can even add our feed to personalized news sites like my.yahoo.com. Separate feeds are also available for specific categories.

Site categories include:

• my dirty life and times - the occasionally interesting life of Tom Swiss - hacker, karateka, poet, musician, shiatsu practitioner, philosopher, dilettante, loudmouth, jackanapes...
• res ipsa loquitur - the thing speaks for itself. Things that make you go, "WTF?"
• Zen Pagan Taoist Atheist Discordianism - the human search for better relationships with ourselves and with the Universe
• maintaining spaceship Earth - save the planet, we may need it later
• live long and prosper - Health is our greatest wealth. Don't drink soap! Keep out of eye! Dilute! Dilute! O.K.!
• poly-ticks: many bloodsucking parasites - dealing with politics until Universal Enlightenment makes it irrelevant
• Maryland, my Maryland - local news
• science big and small - from particle accelerators to kitchen chemistry
• site news - what's going on here?
• support your local vegan - information for eaters of roots and leaves
• things to read - pointers to articles elsewhere
• this is your government on drugs - prohibition doesn't work. make drug use safe and legal
• technomancy - "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced." -- Gehm's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law
• corporate bastards - keeping an eye on immortal amoral artificial people
• the art of the word - discussion of poems, lyrics, stories, whatever
• everyone deserves music - music hath charms

Share and enjoy.

--Tom