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Did Jesus, before he produced bread and fish out of the air to feed the masses, preface his miracle commanding they first don orange vests and pick up empty wine cups along the Road to Damascus?
Category: History
Ah, the 19th century…when mad scientists were really mad, and not only that, they were popular at parties. In 1818, Dr Ure and Professor Jeffray obtained the freshly killed corpse of Matthew Clydesdale, only an hour from the hangman's...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:14 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Weirdness
There is a shifting pattern of spam email that I get. A while back, it was practically non-stop gay porn; I commented on this a while back, and laughed it off, which apparently annoyed the people who'd been sending...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:50 AM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Weirdness
Could be trouble: the other apes are learning how to make fire, and you know where that ended up with us. (via sci-ence) (Also on FtB)...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:14 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
Have fun and go visit the Missing Universe Museum online. You will feel as if you are finally getting close to the bottom of human stupidity. Every page promotes this argument: If you don't believe God created all living things,...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:41 PM • 48 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science
These canny engineers have at last realized that the proper model for robots is biological, and have built a soft-bodied walking robot. The future belongs to inflatable technology! Have no fear. They're mostly benign. (Also on FtB)...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:28 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Weirdness
Inspired by Skepticon, several of the speakers at that event have been redrawn as ponies. Is the next step…furries? (Also on FtB)...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:11 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Weirdness
See? Sometimes cute things can cheer me up. Oooh, and I wanna give you all the souls you want, you adorable little slime-beast. (Also on FtB)...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:13 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Weirdness
You've probably seen that placeholder text for websites in progress — piles of nonsense Latin that's just there to represent sample text. Now there's something better: the Samuel L. Ipsum generator. Next time you're designing a website for a church...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:17 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kooks
I'm not going to post this email I received, simply because it is insanely long, 15,000 words of random caps and peculiar color changes. Just to give you a taste, this is the subject line: Subject: SCIENCE, AND THEOLOGY...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:57 AM • 33 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Weirdness
Remember: it's International Talk Like a Pirate Day. I have to give a lecture on the evolution of the nervous system today. I don't think I can do it with a plethora of "arrr's" unless I drink a lot of...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:23 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
