Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means 'my ignorance is as good as your knowlege.' --Isaac Asimov

Reality has a well-known liberal bias. --Stephen Colbert

Hi! I am Phil Karn, KA9Q. Welcome to my personal home page!

Political Stuff

• Anybody want to know who invented the term "enhanced interrogation"? Click here.
• Why I hate Microsoft: worms and viruses
• 9th Circuit Affirms Bernstein ruling: crypto export rules are unconstitutional!
• Oppose the flag-burning amendment!
• The "No Mental Theft" Act
• The Applied Cryptography export case
• The Patent Office is out of control!

Pseudoscience

• Debunking crackpots and pseudo-science
• The Apollo "hoax"(Sept 2009)
• Analysis of "xMax" technology (updated 1 October 2009)
• A review of one of xG's patents (added 16 May 2007)
• Comments on lab test of xMax (added 4 June 2007)
• Comments on Stu Schwartz's evaluation of xMax (added 6 June 2007)
• An analysis of xG's claim that xMax uses 3,000,000 times less power than WiFi (revised 29 June 2007)
• The VMSK Delusion A thorough debunking of the bogus modulation scheme developed by Harold Walker. (updated 20 March 2007)

Miscellaneous

• My Photovoltaic Power System
• My software packages and utilities
• My EV-1 (electric car) pages
• Archive of my papers, talks, publications and interviews
• Links to miscellaneous and fun Stuff (updated 8 March 2008)
• Some Totally Amazing Quotes (Updated 24 January 2009)
• And some fairly good ones (Updated 3 October 2009)
• Some photos of me
• Revenge On A Telemarketing Scam
• Solving NPR's Sunday Morning Puzzles with Perl

Last updated: 27 Jul 2011