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	KINSALE, Crackpots Ceramic Restaurant and Pottery, Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland
		Crackpots is situated at the top of Market Lane, or the bottom of Cork Street, between the Garda Station and the Desmond Castle Wine Museum.
		The Crackpots Range of functional pottery ~ as well as a selection of unique designs for more decorative use ~ wonderful to collect or give as presents.
		The Workshops are held in the mornings and evenings, for all standards of enthusiast and one or two day courses can be arranged for visitors on request.
	www.irelandwide.com /artc/crackpots/index.htm (326 words)

	The Old New Thing : Every discipline has its crackpots: Stories of mathematics
		Crackpots in the field of Mathematics is particular problematic, because you'd have to read it through line by line to refute the proof.
		Rather, they're crackpots because of their methods of reaching or exceeding c: "imagine that a rocket doubles its speed every day" is not a valid way to actually go the speed of light or faster.
		At my Maths department, 'crackpots' were dealt with by forwarding their "proof" on to the person before them who'd sent in a 'crackie' (in-house slang for a letter from a crackpot).
	blogs.msdn.com /oldnewthing/archive/2006/05/29/610090.aspx (3772 words)

	Reader's Guide for Crackpots published by Houghton Mifflin Company
		By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Crackpots brilliantly captures the vitality and craziness, the sorrow and resilience, of one woman, the incomparable Ruby Reese.
		When we first meet Ruby, she's a spunky kid — a tap-dancing, cowboy-hat-wearing whirlwind — surrounded by a family that everyone in their 1950s Pennsylvania town calls "a bunch of crackpots." Her mother is a puckish woman who roams the hallways at night playing the violin, and her father is a demolitions expert.
		Sara Pritchard surrounds Ruby Reese with a cast of eccentric characters — the "crackpots" of the novel's title.
	www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com /readers_guides/pritchard_crackpots.shtml (1097 words)

	PrimeNumbers Email List's Crackpot Index
		We learn the proper language for sharing, namely "mathematical proof." Crackpots are those who seek to share without knowing the language they are speaking.
		Crackpots are unable to listen, unable to join into this conversation.
		Some of the behaviors attributed to crackpots are also present in the elder statesmen of mathematics.
	primes.utm.edu /notes/crackpot.html (1299 words)

	wnbc.com - NY Times Book Review - 'Crackpots': Every Insane Family Is Insane in Its Own Way (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		As it happened, I read ''Crackpots'' just after finishing a celebrated novel by a precocious young writer that had irritated me because, despite all the talent, it clobbered you with pathos and delivered wisdom that clearly came straight out of books.
		The crackpots of the title are members of the Reese family of Ashport, Pa., who are something like the characters on ''Father Knows Best'' as they might be if they developed upsetting medical and mental disorders.
		The protagonist and sometime narrator -- there are 14 interlocking stories and a prologue, written variously, and with equal deftness, in the first, second and third person -- is Ruby Reese, whom we meet as an infant and last see in her early 50's.
	www.wnbc.com /bookreview/2427753/detail.html (1432 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Crackpots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Crackpots is a novel about her life, that starts at her birth in 1950 and ends on December 31, 1999.
		Although her style is arresting, and probably very much the way that crackpot Ruby thinks, it becomes tedious.
		Crackpots is a work of the most tender and delicate personality.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/061830245X (1467 words)

	AtariProtos.com - All Your Protos Are Belong To Us!
		In Crackpots you must drop flowerpots on deadly spiders crawling up the side of your building; a nice non-violent game that the whole family can enjoy while getting their kicks by killing spiders.
		In today's game market Crackpots would feature little Billy defending his turf by blowing away rival gang members scaling the walls of his building after being sold a bad batch of crack.
		Crackpots is an fast paced twitch game which can really kicks into hyper drive after only a few levels.
	www.atariprotos.com /2600/software/crackpots/crackpots.htm (309 words)

	Salon Books \| Crackpot authorities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Brilliant theorists all, the crackpot authorities apply wide-ranging intellects to fascinating postulates that are, if sometimes out of left field, at least plausible enough to merit discussion.
		As Reich amply illustrates, the crackpot authority is no mere delusional theorist.
		Forgive the crackpot authorities their foibles and they can provide quite an education -- even if it is not always on the subjects they intend.
	www.salon.com /books/feature/1999/08/17/crackpots (693 words)

	The Reference Frame: Crackpots and scientific resources
		Several blogs have discussed the question whether the crackpots, fringe scientists and especially "professional science critics" should have a free access to scientific resources such as arXiv.org.
		The degree of "elitism" in other scientific resources may be less stringent but it should never decrease to zero because treating all ideas, right or wrong, to be on equal footing is in contradiction with the defining properties of science.
		The crackpots who keep on saying that Einstein had to be wrong and theoretical physicists who continue to use Einstein's insights in their work are subjects of a huge conspiracy have no business at arXiv.org.
	motls.blogspot.com /2006/03/crackpots-and-scientific-resources.html (926 words)

	Crackpots : A Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		With an insomniac mother and a demolitions-expert father, her entire family is what the residents of her small town would call "a bunch of crackpots." Despite the dramas of her upbringing, Ruby matures into a creative, introspective, and wholly beguiling woman.
		Suffused with humor and melancholy, imagination and insight, Crackpots heralds the debut of a skilled and sensitive storyteller.
		Her winning novel, Crackpots, chosen by the contest judge, Ursula Hegi, was published by Houghton Mifflin and selected as a...
	www.newenglandrealestatelistings.com /real-estate-books/061830245X.html (2810 words)

	Re: Crackpots Hampering UFO Study Author Says - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In my opinion, a more accurate characterization is that the power elites recognized long ago that crackpots could be EXPLOITED to falsely discredit serious UFO research.
		Crackpot stories are also apparently good for the ratings, so the news media concentrates on Raelians, Heaven's Gate, and various other bizarre tales from the fringe, while ignoring credible UFO reports (which, of course, would be too "sensationalistic" for allegedly serious journalists to cover).
		It's understandable that people who've put in a lot of time and hard conscientious work into UFO research with little acknowledgement are angered by the crackpots and the amount of attention they get.
	www.virtuallystrange.net /ufo/updates/2003/oct/m11-016.shtml (369 words)

	Anti-‘SpongeBob’ groups are all wet - Children's TV - MSNBC.com
		The CRACKPOT Christians want to warn Americans that a music video being sent to 61,000 U.S. schools in March featuring SpongeBob and promoting a message of tolerance is really a surreptitious attempt to turn straights into gays.
		Specifically, they’re upset by a “tolerance pledge” on the website of the nonprofit We Are Family Foundation, the producer of the video, that asks people to respect the sexual identity of others along with their abilities, beliefs, culture and race.
		I’m sure the CRACKPOT Christians are, at this very moment, gathered somewhere in a secret location, scrutinizing old clips of Tom and Jerry to detect any signs of mutual arousal.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6853667 (1007 words)

	Synetic Theater opens The Crackpots
		The Crackpots, which runs January 16-February 8 at the Rosslyn Spectrum in Arlington, VA, is the world’s first stage adaptation of the Soviet-era film, Sherekelebi, written and directed by the renowned Rezo Gabriadze, a native of the Republic of Georgia.
		The Crackpots is pure allegory,” artistic director Paata Tsikurishvili.
		The Crackpots is a story about a banished youth who embarks on a bizarre rite of passage that leads, via an affair with the mistress of the local police chief, to prison.
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2003/12/emw96093.htm (429 words)

	Crackpots & Visionaries Intro and Credits Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Crackpots and Visionaries Trading Cards, produced by WFMU as a premium for listener-contributors, pay tribute to a few of the iconoclastic, free spirited, and sometimes dangerous souls who have inspired us over the years.
		We chose from among geniuses and charlatans, saints and homicidal maniacs, from the revered to the reprehensible.
		This is WFMU's second set of 36 Crackpots and Visionaries Trading Cards, created with volunteer artistry as a fundraising premium.
	www.wfmu.org /CandV/cnvcred.html (278 words)

	Small Times - In topsy-turvy nano, 'crackpots' seem downright respectable
		The founder of Nanosciences Inc., a man with impeccable business credentials, has apparently fallen in with a bad crowd, hanging out here with a bunch of "crackpot" scientists at last weekend's 11th Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology.
		It's the one envisioned in 1986 by Eric Drexler in "Engines of Creation," of molecular assemblers that can rearrange atoms into any way permitted by the laws of physics, the nanotechnology that existed in theory before the "n" word morphed into sunscreen, pants and "nanobusiness."
		"Crackpots," Clements said, and "too SciFi," were the comments he kept getting from other nanotech entrepreneurs.
	www.smalltimes.com /document_display.cfm?document_id=6778 (1533 words)

	Crackpots and the Nature of Truth \| MetaFilter
		December 24, 2002 9:03 AM Crackpots and the Nature of Truth If you're a busy guy like me, you take on faith a lot what is promoted as scientific truth.
		Many of them have just heard one side of the story (the crackpot side), and because their critical thinking skills are underdeveloped, or because their knowledge base wasn't extensive enough to debunk it themselves, or because the crackpot theory was presented so well, they bought it.
		Many people who believe crackpot theories can be reasoned with, and many are fully capable of changing their minds when presented with more information.
	www.metafilter.com /22516/Crackpots-and-the-Nature-of-Truth (2538 words)

	Crackpots, contrarians, and the free market of ideas \| Cosmic Variance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Admittedly, it can be difficult to articulate the difference between principled disagreement and complete nuttiness (the crackpot index is, despite being both funny and telling, not actually a very good guide), but we usually know it when we see it.
		Only at the very bottom of the scale do we find the true crackpots, who have come up with a model of the structure of spacetime that purportedly replaces relativity and looks suspiciously like it was put together with pipe cleaners and pieces of string.
		On the wider problem of crackpotism increasing the backgrund noise: Nature is the actually final judge of all theories, and historically favors crazy ideas.
	cosmicvariance.com /2006/03/03/crackpots-contrarians-and-the-free-market-of-ideas (11986 words)

	Crackpots, Cranks, and Conspiracies
		Crackpot, crank, and conspiracy Web sites are more popular than ever, and it's hard to know their immediate effect on society.
		The reasons crackpots believe this vary, but the main argument seems to be—and this is rich—that the planes could be flown more accurately via remote control.
		The people controlling the planes were supposedly (choose one): the U.S. military working on behalf of oil companies interested in Afghan oil riches; terrorists who wanted better control of the flight paths; Jews, just to stir things up.
	www.pcmag.com /article2/0,1895,6350,00.asp (1453 words)

	scanners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky have made plenty of intellectually dishonest crackpot statements in interviews and op-eds, but they're also smart enough (in certain parts of their work) to have made me think on occasion.
		I almost used Cindy Sheehan as an example of a lefty crackpot, but while I respect her grief over her son, I don't think she qualifies as a political pundit.
		As I said in my original post, I think I understand the context of your "crackpot" comments -- I just wanted to be sure I re-emphasized the point I had made earlier in the week: that we are surrounded by crackpots (I think of Fox pundits) who'll just say anything to get attention.
	blogs.suntimes.com /scanners/2007/01/critics_and_crackpots.html (2614 words)

	AtariAge - Atari 2600 - Crackpots (Activision)
		Crackpots has nothing to do with any type of illegal drugs in any way.
		Instead, you're given the task of defending an apartment building against mutant bugs that are crawling out of the sewers.
		Racking up 75,000 points or more made you eligible to send your score to Activision to receive the Crackpots patch.
	www.atariage.com /software_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=111 (135 words)

	Closeminded Science: They laughed at the Wright Brothers
		And subsequently, hordes of crackpots try to make capital out of this: Arrhenius was ridiculed, he was right; I am ridiculed, therefore, I, too, am right.
		If skeptical people ignore such powerful evidence presented by "the crackpots," and if they instead distort the historical examples and proclaim them to be a simple logical error, then it is the skeptics who make the logical error, not the crackpots.
		When a crackpot complains that the scientific peer group is attempting to suppress his/her work, we should carefully examine the complaint.
	www.amasci.com /freenrg/arrhenus.html (2820 words)

	In topsy-turvy nano, 'crackpots' seem downright reasonable.. - Nanodot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The founder of Nanosciences Inc., a man with impeccable business credentials, has apparently fallen in with a bad crowd, hanging out here with a bunch of "crackpot" scientists at last weekend's 11th Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology.
		That's the sort of reaction Clements almost universally received from fellow nanotechnology business people when he told them he planned to attend this gathering.
		"Crackpots," Clements said, and "too SciFi," were the comments he kept getting from other nanotech entrepreneurs.
	nanodot.org /articles/03/10/23/2024230.shtml (218 words)

	Crackpots & Visionaries Card of the Day! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		WFMU's Crackpots and Visionaries trading cards pay tribute to a few of the iconoclastic, free-spirited, and sometimes dangerous souls who have inspired us over the years.
		Check this space for a different crackpot or visionary each and every day.
		Crackpots and Visionaries Cards (c) 1992,1994 WFMU, East Orange NJ All individual card art (c) 1992, 1994 the artists, text (c) 1992, 1994 the authors
	wfmu.org /cgi-bin/candv.pl (182 words)

	GameStats: Crackpots Cheats, Reviews, News
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	www.gamestats.com /objects/004/004620 (209 words)

	Crackpots of Hampton Roads Unite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Bischoff missed a grand meeting of crackpots, more formally known as Libertarians, this morning (01/27/01).
		Had he been there, he would have enjoyed the company of a group of fifty or so exasperated voters who are interested enough in politics and, more importantly, interested in basic individual rights to show up for a Saturday morning organizational meeting of Libertarians.
		We were indeed an eclectic group, but in my judgment there was not a crackpot among them.
	www.archiewhitehill.net /Opinions/OPED-crackpots.htm (434 words)

	[RT] Re: "crackpots"?
		But now, if you fire up that same once-lauded Carver reciever, tune it to an IBOC station, and you notice and complain about the hissing noise...
		suddenly you're using some "crazy crackpot wideband AM Stereo radio" and therefore your complaint is not valid -- in fact, it gives people the right to criticize, belittle, and discredit you for using such atypical equipment as your basis of judgement.
		Today, anyone who has the guts and the bucks to buy an IBOC "HD Radio" receiver is heartily applauded for being on the leading edge of this new technology.....
	www.broadcast.net /pipermail/radio-tech/2004-May/052688.html (292 words)

	The West Wing: The Crackpots and These Women - TV.com
		Throughout the day, Sam deals with a UFO nut, CJ gets a proposal to build a wolves-only road, Toby and Bartlet clash over everything, and Josh is overwhelmed by guilt regarding his sister's death.
		Andrew Jackson received an enormous block of cheese from the people of New York and, when he hadn't touched it in two years, gave it to the people of D.C. to celebrate Washington's birthday.
		When Josh is given a card as to where to go in nucleur attack, he breaksdown in grief as he recalls the death of sister.
	www.tv.com /the-west-wing/the-crackpots-and-these-women/episode/792/summary.html (858 words)

	Wired New York Forum - Visionaries, Day-Dreamers, Crackpots...
		This forum has been a magnet for those who have their own visions for the WTC site, and the website to go with it.
		I keep hearing the concern that these would be rusty, dangerous pieces of metal.
		I haven't heard much about it lately, but there was a plan to distribute WTC steel to various communities, so they could make their own memorials.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/printthread.php?t=3532&pp=50 (679 words)

	Amazon.com: Crackpots: A Novel: Books: Sara Pritchard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		There is little wonder why Sara Pritchard, writing under her own name, was considered to be the finest new fiction writer of the year.
		Although her style is arresting, and probably very much the way that crackpot Ruby thinks, it becomes tedious.
		Crackpots is a novel about her life, that starts at her birth in 1950 and ends on December 31, 1999.
	www.amazon.com /Crackpots-Novel-Sara-Pritchard/dp/061830245X (1751 words)

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