I’ve said before that I’ve been looking at possible alternatives to ExpressionEngine for running my blogs. Not because I’m overly unhappy with EE, but because I’m not sure I’ll be able to afford to upgrade to EE 2.0 when it is released. Not to mention the amount of time it’s taking for that release to . . . → Read More: Once again contemplating alternatives to ExpressionEngine.
I hadn’t intended to, but like many things on the Internet, it just sorta happened.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with him David Jaffe is one of the guys behind a number of popular titles on the Playstation consoles including the Twisted Metal series and, most notably, God of War, a game . . . → Read More: In which I get into a Twitter fight with game developer David Jaffe.
Gotta love the Pope. If ever there was a perfect example of religious hubris and hypocrisy at its finest then the Pope is it. The fact that he can claim to be a font of morality after the travesty of justice that was the pedophile priest scandal shows that it’s not just the evangelicals that . . . → Read More: Pope blames atheists for environmental destruction.
From the You-Have-To-Be-Fucking-Kidding-Me department comes this Pew Research Center Science Knowledge Quiz. It’s a series of 12 questions on what can only be described as stunningly basic science knowledge. Questions such as “Which over-the-counter drug do doctors recommend that people take to help prevent heart attacks?” Stuff that all you’d have to do is . . . → Read More: Take the Pew Research Center Science Knowledge Quiz.
Another year has passed and I’m supposedly a bit wiser than I was. I’m definitely a bit older, by exactly one year. The one cool thing about working afternoons now is that when I go home I’ll share a late-night birthday supper with my wife. So I get to start the celebration a little early. . . . → Read More: Happy 42nd Birthday to Me.
It seems every major religion has commercials touting the supposed benefits of their faith on TV. This is particularly true of Scientology and the Mormons. So YouTuber orleyorg sat down and put together what he thought might be a good advertisement for atheism:
I’ve been playing WoW since shortly after it was released and I still play it regularly. With each new expansion it’s clear that Blizzard has learned a lot as Burning Crusade brought in a much evolved questing system and Wrath of the Lich King made heavy use of phasing for story telling. The last two . . . → Read More: “World of Warcraft: Cataclysm” is literally a game changer.
The folks at Radiolab bring us this short film by Will Hoffman. Will was inspired to make it after hearing Radiolab’s program on moments of death. So he went out and found moments of life:
I found this to be incredibly moving. The next time a believer asks why an atheist doesn’t commit suicide if . . . → Read More: “Moments” a short film by Will Hoffman.
About the only way you could get me to watch a show like America’s Got Talent is to bring an act like Penn & Teller onto it. Which they did. Fortunately, thanks to YouTube, I still didn’t have to tune into the program to see them perform. Here their segment in which they perform the . . . → Read More: Penn & Teller cut a woman in half on “America’s Got Talent”
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