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Driving into work the other day I spotted the following on a billboard along the freeway for a church in Plymouth Michigan:
First time I saw it I thought it said "whining", which totally changes the meaning. I understand the Christian desire to co-opt anything that’s remotely popular into a means of church recruitment . . . → Read More: OK, the Charlie Sheen “Winning” meme has officially gone too far. 
The Big Wha??? And when I say “just don’t get” I mean you don’t understand what the big fucking deal is? You know the sort I’m talking about: Everyone you know has seen it and thinks it’s the most incredible/deeply philosophical/emotionally moving/amazingly subtle story they’ve ever seen. Then you watch it and all you . . . → Read More: What popular movies do you just don’t get? 
Yeah, I’m still trying to wrap my head around how that works if the central definition of being a Christian is believing in Christ. Of course you can start all manner of arguments among the believers by trying to nail down a definition of what a Christian is. It can be endlessly amusing if you’re . . . → Read More: Anne Rice declares she’s not a Christian. Still believes in Christ, just isn’t a Christian. If you’ve never heard of Chatroulette then this will be a pretty good primer, as well as uproariously funny: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Tech-Talch – Chatroulette www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Reform I’m actually quite surprised at all the attention Chatroulette is receiving. . . . → Read More: The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart does Chatroulette. Akusai from Action Skeptics here, folks. Well, ladies and gentlemen, plans for a symposium of reality-based programming at Gen Con Indy 2010 are coming together faster than I could have imagined. Some of you may remember that back in September Les was kind enough to allow me to post A Call to Skeptical Action, wherein . . . → Read More: Big Plans for Gen Con Indy 2010 I was just talking about this on the live feed and thought it would make a decent blog post. Can we please stop giving attention to the nutcases who are claiming the world is going to end in 2012? The folks at the Salt Lake Tribune just published an article on this nonsense in part, . . . → Read More: More stupidity with the year 2012. (#Blogathon) This is an interesting little video put together by the folks over at Slate. It attempts to show how the coverage of the moon landing would be different had it happened this year instead of 40 years ago. The resulting clip is both funny and sad at the same time: Walter Cronkite just passed away . . . → Read More: The moon landing coverage if it had happened today. Farah, MJ, Ed McMahon, and now Billy Mays. If I were prone to conspiracy theories I might start to think something was afoot. Two of the four deaths—Farah and Ed—aren’t unexpected and, honestly, Michael’s isn’t a huge surprise given all the surgery he’s subjected himself to over the years. May’s death may be the result . . . → Read More: The celebrities! They are dropping like flies! Over the weekend we stopped into the local Target store and I was stunned to see huge advertising displays featuring the weirdly cute fuzzy Japanese monster-thingy known as Domo all over the place. That’s a pic of him over on the left. I’ve known about him for years and have a QuickTime movie file on . . . → Read More: When the hell did Domo become big in the U.S.? And another part of my childhood passes away: Dungeons & Dragons co-creator dies at 69 – Yahoo! News MILWAUKEE – Gary Gygax, who co-created the fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons and helped start the role-playing phenomenon, died Tuesday morning at his home in Lake Geneva. He was 69. He had been suffering from health problems . . . → Read More: “Dungeons & Dragons” co-creator Gary Gygax fails his saving throw. |
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