Trampoline skillz.
Commuting via zip line. [link]
No indication how they get back.
James Randi comes out of the closet on the JREF podcast. [link]
You may notice the total lack of mockery directed at The Amazing Randi by me. That's because at no point in his life did he encourage depriving gays of equal rights or abusing them in any way. This isn't true about the heaps of priests and conservative politicians who get caught having gay affairs and then try to deny that they're at least bi-sexual.
Oh, perfect! These guys are the ones I rip on. [link]
I grew up with the woman on the right.
Having pointed out that the landing sites of a couple of American moon missions have been spotted from orbit, I would be remiss if I failed to point out that the landing site of a Soviet moon mission has also been found. [link]
Both parts of Congress have passed health care bills, the President has signed it, now they're sorting out the differences. Author John Scalzi has written an excellent summary of the situation. [link]
A new video from the Tesla Coil playing band Arc Attack. [link]
The Large Hadron Collider has set new collider beam record by triple the old record. They're preparing to double the new record. [link]
Giant steel Soviet machinery. [link]
If we just turn on that one gene... [link]
Parent has an e-mail chat with the chaplin of his kid's school. [link]
Furniture from street signs. [link]
"At the end of the test every single mouse was dead." [link]
"Off That" a rap rationalist anthem.
The MP3 [link]
Sir Christopher Lee reads "The Jabberwocky". [link]
Weaponized chili peppers. [link]
Fox News is full of crap. So why haven't any other news agency done an exposé. [link]
Great missing dog signs. [link]
Philip K. Dick's letter to one of the makers of the movie "Blade Runner". [link]
Just so it's clear, "Blade Runner" is based off of the book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by P.K. Dick.
I told you about the wackaloon being voted off the Texas School Board. Alas, he's done a lot of damage already. Here's a breakdown. [link]
Rocket and shuttle launch photos. [link] [link 2]
Impressive Mario papercraft. [link]
If you're familiar with Bill O'Reilly you know how he talks over guests and cuts off microphones when they're in danger of making valid points. If you've seen Crossfire or most any modern American talking head show you've seen people yelling over each other. this link has a whole Jon Stewart interview with a Bush apologist. It appears to me that Stewart worked hard to make sure that the guy got plenty of opportunity to speak. The other guy disagrees. So they posted the whole, uncut interview on their website for everyone to see. This is why "The Daily Show", a comedy news show, is better respected and won more awards than most serious news shows.
The subject is the use of torture as an interrogation device. [link]
Game: Imperfect Balance - Use these blocks to push those blocks off screen. [link]
Those of you who listen to audio books will want to download "How to Succeed in Evil".
Superman is always gonna kick ass. It's his comic book. He's the main character. He has to. But what if it wasn't his comic? What if it was Lex Luthor's comic? The story opens with a Superman type character completely failing to stop an airplane from crashing. Then we switch to an evil consultant. You're a super villain? You need an investor? This is your guy. Just don't come to him with yet another death ray in space.[link]
While on the subject, I should remind you of a similar book - "Soon I Will Be Invincible". If you check out my review you'll find links to chapters 1 and 2 available for free. Yummy just finished reading it. Ask her, she liked it. [my review]
How the Borg named Hugh is responsible for passage of health care reform. [link]
Alien vs Pooh. [link]
The trailer for "Weird" The Weird Al Yankovic Story. [link]
Sexist church shocks it's own female member with extra sexism. Sure, they can't vote, but they were prevented from even speaking. [link]
Lutheran women of Baraboo... LEAVE ALREADY!
Picture of the Milky Way on fire. [link]
Short films of Tim Burton. [link]
Collection of female punk rock music. I've downloaded a lot but haven't listened to any of it yet. Could be rubbish. [link]
How different tech companies got their names. [link]
A Nightline discussion "Does God Have a Future". Sam Harris, Michael Shermer, Deepak Chopra, and Jean Houston discuss the issue. [link]
Deepak shows once again that he has a lousy grasp of physics. Trying to wrap his brand of religion in scientific terminology in front of a crowd of CalTech students probably wasn't his best plan.
The discussion suffers from the major problem that all the guests, religious and atheist, favor dumping the modern and historic religions. The religious guests want everyone to follow their particular beliefs, one wrapped in bad science and the other little more than "Be excellent to each other." The atheists keep trying to remind the religious people that there's thousands of years of religiously based culture to purge first.
How I'd build a homeless shelter for myself. [link]
2 comments:
I'm all about expressing opinions and factual, reasonable discussions on religion and such, but the link you posted: "Parent has an e-mail chat with the chaplin of his kid's school." seems to, not only go against sensible argument, but spit in the face of free speech. I understand the stupidity of having a permission form pre-marked, but seriously? Why would a parent argue so vemoniately against someone trying to share beliefs? Even if they are based on... whatever, they are still someone's beliefs. Now I even feel dumb and judged. sorry
Seems the opposite to me. The school is taking a bunch of children and taking them to indoctrinate them with the beliefs of a particular religion. They don't take the kids to see a Jewish play or a Muslim play. The Papua New Guinean mud god, Pikkiwoki, is every bit as valid a belief as Christianity. But at no point in their public school upbringing would it even be considered to blow tax money on taking kids to see a non-Christian play. The parent may not have any grounds under the Australian legal system to sue the school, but he can sure give the Chaplin a hard time.
If a school in the United States traded their counselor for any religious figure they'd have trouble finding anyone stupid enough to defend them in court.
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