claiming to be the dominate race of mankind since 1933

I would love to take a look at the Conservapedia, but their server seems to be down.

Such a pity.
However, not only does the site already have an entry in the German version of Wikipedia, that entry is also already marked for deletion. Most commenters think that, where Conservapedia is concerned, it is very fitting that the word Enzyklopädie (encyclopedia) contains the word Klo (toilet).

They also quote the article on Germany from Conservapedia:

A country in central Europe that was blamed for both Wolrd Wars and claimed to be the dominate race of mankind.

And here are we, spending years of our lives learning about our history, geography, political and social situation when all it takes is one sentence.
And a map. We must not forget the map, or the writers over at this highly informative site might consider us just another bunch of liberal, atheist monsters with devilish English spelling.


In other news, when I came home from work today (down to N° 230!!), I found a huge box in front of my door that clearly stated it contained a microwave. It was addressed to me, but as I obviously hadn't ordered it, I called my Mom and asked her whether she knew anything about it.

It is indeed an early birthday present! They had told her it wouldn't be sent until the 8th, so she was really surprised that it was here already.
I have only used it (the microwave, not the box) to heat a cup of water to check whether it works but it looks quite nice and seems to be working wonderfully, which I will test tomorrow.

Because for lunch, I made myself enough to have some leftovers, as now I can reheat anything without so much hassle as I had before.

That makes me really happy!


Tomorrow, I'll have to go to the hairdresser and I'm also going to buy a few things I think I need. Then I will bake something, just for the fun of it. I had thought I would bake something for people at work the week after my birthday, but so many of my friends aren't there that week that it makes sense to postpone the celebrating to the week after hat, which will be the time two friends have their own birthdays, so we might decide to have a big breakfast at the mess for everybody.

Random note

A while ago, I had to learn the hard way that this little symbol: * is really called asterisk.
For some reason, probably because of my early infatuation with Asterix, I always assumed it couldn't possibly be spelled "sk" in the end.

However, I refuse to believe that the phrase "without further adieu" is correct. It simply cannot be "adieu". And even if everybody would spell it thus, I'd still maintain that it is "ado" and will always be.

More Conservapedia

The site finally loaded, so here I am browsing.

In the article about Common Era (a term I had not heard before), one line particularly puzzled me:

The conclusion is obvious: usage of the term "Common Era" seeks to deny recognition to Christianity. Beware of other examples of this, and beware how schools and tests are converting to "Common Era" dating systems to appease hostility to Christianity.

Consider this frank question and answer with a rabbi about the use of "Common Era," which illustrates that the term "Common Era" did not come from Judaism:

(it goes on with a communication between an unnamed rabbi and somebody named Viviane. She asks the rabbi about where the term comes from and he says he doesn't know, and neither did a professor of history whom he asked.

Nowhere in the article did it state that anybody ever believed the term to come from Judaism, so why explicitly say that it doesn't and give such a wishy-washy reference? I am quite sure a number of pastors I could ask do not know every term that might or might not have come from Christianity and become commonly used.

( more reading of random articles behind the cut )

It is a bit difficult now to discern between original Conservapedia articles and those edited by others to make fun of the project. The article on Bill Clinton has obviously been tampered with, I don't think the phrase about the "devil incarnate" was in there originally.

The article on evolution looks like it might be in the state it was intended to be by the creators of Conservapedia, and it has the advantage of being more than a sentence long.
However, it doesn't succeed in containing a whole lot of information, even biased information.

The entry on Charles Darwin informs us that he always made a point in saying that he did believe in some sort of God. Very reassuring.
Unfortunately, there is no article yet about Gregor Mendel. It would have been interesting to see what they have to say about him.


All in all - the whole project is bloody ridiculous. Of course, I know that some people's simplemindedness knows no bounds, but I would assume that the site would be little used as a reference.
It s rather funny to see that one of the reasons they state for resigning Wikipedia is that they don't give the Asian world its rightful place, as Wikipedia doesn't mention feudalism in Asia, yet Conservapedia seems rather reluctant to admit that the world does not, in fact, revolve around the United States of America.

Also, and lastly, before I bore you out of your minds, this article made me grin. It is mentioned as yet another proof of the bias of Wikipedia that it doesn't mention Bacon's Rebellion in their article about Indentured Slavery. This is - word by word - what Conservapedia has to say about the rebellion. Please note the unbiased, comprehensive article:

Bacon's Rebellion was a revolt in 1676 by former indentured servants in colonial Virginia. It was led by an English immigrant, Nathanael Bacon.

Bacon killed Indians in Virginia. He rode to Jamestown and burned it because the Governor would not let him kill more Indians. He died of a disease before he could be hung like his friends.


Macchiavelli suggested to let your enemies damn themselves with their own words. I could not have said it better, or done a better job at it, than Conservapedia does it itself.