December 2011
1 post
May 2011
2 posts
March 2011
2 posts
Joss Whedon Interview 2002
friendlyatheist:
The Onion: Is there a God? Joss Whedon: No. O: That’s it, end of story, no? JW: Absolutely not. That’s a very important and necessary thing to learn.
I knew there was a reason I loved Whedon’s work ;)
APOD: 2011 March 15 - Cassini Approaches Saturn →
absolutely breathtaking
June 2010
1 post
May 2010
4 posts
Prepping the Shuttle for launch →
In this unique time-lapse video created from thousands of individual frames, photographers Scott Andrews, Stan Jirman and Philip Scott Andrews condense six weeks of painstaking work into three minutes, 52 seconds.
“In red America, families form adults; in blue America, adults form families.”
– How red- and blue-state families approach marriage, childbirth, and divorce.
(via Kottke)
(via chriswarren)
April 2010
5 posts
“The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging...”
– — Mythbusters’ Adam Savage, in a recent speech to the Harvard Humanist Society
(via Pharyngula, posnonrel)
(via chriswarren)
Real Time with Bill Maher (and Sam Harris)
Bill Maher: How did you get to that place? Because most people are raised religiously. How did you get to where you are, and what advice would you give to kids today who wanna break into atheism?
Sam Harris: Well, I started there, and that's kind of the point.
Bill Maher: You did?
Sam Harris: Yeah, unless you're indoctrinated at some point early on -- it's kind of like smoking -- you tend not to pick it up later in life.
Bill Maher: As a child, you were an atheist?
Sam Harris: Atheism has no content. Being an atheist is like being a non-astrologer. No one gets taught to be a non-astrologer. You just don't get convinced by astrology.
March 2010
4 posts
An open letter to conservatives →
“You can have all the faith you want in spirits, and the afterlife, and heaven...”
– Gregory House, MD (via paintchipped) (via friendlyatheist)
May 2009
2 posts
“It annoys me that the burden of proof is on us. It should be: you came up with...”
– Ricky Gervais on being an atheist (via kottke) (via dpstyles) (via s4xton) (via chriswarren)
Hitler tries a DMCA takedown | Brad Ideas →
I’ve seen a lot of these Downfall paradies (all after seeing the actual movie). This is by far the best. Also I do recommend renting the movie. It’s very good.
April 2009
1 post
On full-screen iPhone web apps
mrgan:
This assumes you have an interest in developing websites/web apps for the iPhone, and that you’re comfortable doing so.
Did you know webpages can be made completely chromeless on the iPhone? By “chromeless” I mean that a page can specify it should be shown without the navigation bar at the top and toolbar at the bottom (the status bar is there to stay, and you can’t change its color).
...
March 2009
2 posts
Cute Girl Flushes Fish - CollegeHumor Video →
I feel like the little girl’s just messing with her mom at some points.
February 2009
15 posts
Q and A: Jack Horner Wants to Re-Create T. Rex... →
Excerpt from the interview: “Religion is about faith, not evidence. Comparing science and religion isn’t like comparing apples and oranges—it’s more like apples and sewing machines.”
Meme's are like a disease →
It looks like The IT Crowd had the right idea with the whole FriendFace thing.
Johnson Controls - ingenuitywelcome.com →
This little game just consumed the last half hour of my life.
WatchWhat is it about cute girls who play the ukulele?
Webdev Mafia →