March 20, 2012
It's the Scopes Trial all over again!
"The Senate approved a bill Monday evening that deals with teaching of evolution and other scientific theories," the Knoxville News-Sentinel (March 19, 2012) reported, adding, "Critics call it a 'monkey bill' that promotes creationism in classrooms." The bill…
March 20, 2012
The 7.6 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck 120 miles east of Acapulco. There are no details yet.
UPDATE: With a bit of time passing, it is starting to look like a lot of stuff got shook-up, but there was not a lot of significant damage anywhere.
March 20, 2012
Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow (signed by the author!) and I'm reading it with great interest, even though I'm totally swamped with other things. Damn you Rachel Maddow for writing such an engaging book!
I'm just starting it but wanted to share a couple of…
March 20, 2012
There's an app for that!
A free, new iPhone app from NASA literally puts the whole world in the palm of your hands. "Earth Now" immerses cyber explorers in dazzling visualizations of near-real-time global climate data from NASA's fleet of Earth science satellites.
Available at the iTunes Store or…
March 20, 2012
... for the shooting of Trayvon Martin by clicking on this link.
March 19, 2012
And they are! Just yesterday I was hanging around with a bunch off atheists and they were all pretty angry. They were even getting angry with each other. I could hear "get off my lawn" as a more or less constant droning sound in the background.
People who are not atheists, or who may be…
March 19, 2012
Of the first dozen times or so that I ever saw Joel, my then future brother in law, I think we were in a restaurant a good four or five times. This was probably just a chance event, but there were a number of dinners and one lunch with the family that Joel and Alyssa (Amanda's sister) attended.…
March 19, 2012
It slows my system way down, it breaks my desktop, it makes the browser work very poorly, and it requires me to force the computer to shut down and reboot now and then.
It also appears to boot quickly but it is mostly faking it.
March 19, 2012
I wrote a post on the murder off Trayvon Martin. Here.
March 19, 2012
On Sunday, Google Chrome surpassed Microsoft Internet Explorer in browser market share.
I would now like to welcome our new Internety Overlords!
(Please don't hurt me.)
source
March 18, 2012
By "Controlling the Message" I mean setting the agenda, usually by putting something out there that causes other people to shift their own message to be more like yours. I can think of a few spectacular yet small scale examples that are safe to talk about. I'll give you one, although if certain…
March 17, 2012
All your thoughts are belong to us!
March 16, 2012
So, what are you doing on Sunday morning?
We've had a slight change in plans, and my interview with Maggie Koerth Baker will be on April 1st. No fooling. Meanwhile, on Sunday, Atheist Talk Radio will have a conversation woth Jen McCreigh, Stephanie Zvan, Brianne Bilyeu, and Moi. In other words…
March 16, 2012
Bill McKibben shares a message with the 350 community about what we've done so far, and the plan for the months ahead. Our next big fight: taking on the billions in subsidies that the fossil fuel industry makes.
March 15, 2012
Last weekend, Desiree Schell and I taped a segment of "Everything You Know Is (Sort of) Wrong" (apologies)for Skeptically Speaking, a radio talk show and podcast that Desiree hosts. The topic was the concept of humans as predators, or hunters, or really, eaters of meat, and I was discussing the…
March 15, 2012
Back up plan: Fruit. Not sure how that works. Have a look:
March 14, 2012
A UFO (Underground Freaky Object) has been located in Austria by a farmer searching for his lost cat.
"I managed to get a big magnet which I dangled down there and it clearly fastened onto something at the bottom -- so there is something large and metallic about down there," he said. "It also…
March 13, 2012
DId you ever wonder if people "back then" really sounded like Rudolph Valentino or if there was just something wrong with all the recording equipment?
Turns out .....
Hat Tip C.A.
March 13, 2012
(Hat Tip: Miles)
March 13, 2012
Obviously, since the hardware can be stolen, this would work better if the gear was surgically implanted in the homeless people who could then constitute a new race of cyborg servants who would not have to be paid much.
March 12, 2012
I'm not recommending this. In fact, I may recommend against it. But I thought you should know:
March 12, 2012
I usually write about race and racism here, but about humanist and atheist stuff at The X Blog. So, I thought I'd point you to this: White Atheism and the Billboard Problem
March 11, 2012
Do you have a Roku with which you watch Netflix? Do you watch Netflix on a Mac? If so, you are using either the Linux operating system or a closely related "*Nix" operating system. (Mac's run on a form of OS that is the same basic system as Linux*)
However, if you run Linux on a regular computer,…
March 11, 2012
... because what they are doing here is embarrassingly absurd. Animated.
March 9, 2012
".... The car stopped on a dime. Unfortunately, the dime was in Mr. Rococco's Pocket...." and other great moments.
If you don't know Firesign Theater, then a) your soul is empty and b) you won't know who Peter Bergman is/was.
Here's a post by a friend of his.
And now, go get and ingest some…
March 9, 2012
Yes, folks, it's YouTube Weekend! (Our daycare is closed and it's convention/caucus season in Minnesota and I've got a candidate!)
