Anyone who watches The Colbert Report with any frequency knows of the man’s hatred of the Ursine’s. They regularly top The Threat Down as the #1 threat. It seems his thinking isn’t all that far off if…you are are a child, and you make fun of bald people.
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The Christian god apparently feels that [...]
On behalf of Fujitsu (PDF), Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, and Coconut Grove Intimates (now defunct, even the WayBackMachine couldn’t help me) I would like to put forth the following open letter to Steve Jobs and Apple Computers. I shall be as brief as my predecessor.
Change your devices name. Not that big of a deal.
Look familiar to you? [...]
Here is part two of my series about atheism. If you remember from my introductory post I am exploring my ideas of atheism and how best to state my position. I figure one good place to start is to figure out why people are religious. Here is my take.
Basically I see two reasons people become [...]
Found an article by Chris Clarke over at Coyote Crossing that explains the “magic recipe” to writing award winning blog posts. It clearly shows that I don’t know what I am doing. Maybe that is the reason for this blog’s abysmal readership. Of course it could also be because I am an outrageous ass who [...]
Last night I popped in my copy of Brazil, the movie I consider to be Terry Gilliam’s masterpiece.
The stark, spartan cinematography is excellent. The acting is on par. The story is so reminiscent of other works by George Orwell and Kurt Vonnegut that I personally feel right at home. The movie seems to be a [...]
When people approach me about my atheism the conversation usually starts out with a question similar to:
How do you know god doesn’t exist?
I usually have a pompous and snarky reply relating to “the incredible, edible egg”. Usually my reply is enough to either lower their defences (or offences as you will) and allow a somewhat [...]
The homepage that has greeted me nearly every day for over 10 years just vanished. Scott Anguish, the site’s creator, has deleted the venerable source of OPENSTEP/Cocoa news & information. I opened a browser window at 11PM EST and was greeted with the following message:
As of 10:43 EST, after 14+ years of operation, [...]
So I find out today that Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson, has lent her voice recording to a robo-call for a scientology event.
I can’t for the life of me figure out why she would do such a thing. So she is a Scientologist. Big deal. I can only think of 3 possible scenarios:
She [...]
Having heard part one of this on NPR’s All Thing Considered and now having listened to it again and the recently found part two I couldn’t help but pass it on.
Part 1
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Part 2
It really points to something that I think I always knew in the back of my mind but never admitted publicly. [...]
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby
Jackass Of The Week: John Gruber
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As much as I dislike Apple as a company I do tend to like John Gruber and his analysis. He is an ass like me most of the time which probably helps. This time though he goes to far. He points out that some tests with Flash on the Android [...]