It would seem Tom and Dori have their newsfeed working again, and this lil' gem needs to be kept in my online consciousness so I can point to it for some folks I know who badly need this info...

Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie. Worried about those mind-control rays from the CIA (or possibly the planet Ignortz)? Always wanted your own Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie, but were concerned about the cost and whether you could build this precision protective device? Worry no more! You'll find complete instructions here, and they even get the details right. So many beanie construction sites fail to tell you that for maximum effectiveness, the shiny side of the foil must go _on the outside_.

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Another gem passed on via those folks at York U.

Why do so many academics write such gobbledegook? In part, it's snobbery. By writing in a complex language only specialists can understand, they exclude the rest of us. Some of it is mental laziness. These writers haven't worked their own ideas through, but by dressing up weak arguments in bombast and scholarly jargon, they hide the fact that they don't know what they mean, either.

IMHO, it's just sheer hubris that they insist upon doing so!

And why is it when I search a particular online thesaurus, it proclaims hubris not found?!? More hubris, I say!

Hubris! Hubris! Hubris! Say it!

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