Archive for August, 2007
Even gaming comics think Jesus is silly
August 16th, 2007 • 4 comments comic
I’ve been reading a bunch of new-to-me web comics this week (list up shortly) but I stumbled across this one just now at Bored and Evil:
Someone found the Flying Spaghetti Monster
August 16th, 2007 • 1 comment chatter
(I had originally cross posted this from YouTube days ago but it never showed up)
Someone’s found the Flying Spaghetti Monster and he’s…German?!
New Four Stone Hearth
August 16th, 2007 • archaeology, carnival
The new Four Stone Hearth is up at Archaeolog and as always, is an awesome read.
Interesting Posts, part 5
August 12th, 2007 • 3 comments interesting posts, web
Another week, another slew of interesting posts!
This is a 5 page article that dissects and discusses China’s past and present booming counterfeit economy and how it’s affecting both Eastern and Western technologies. It’s interesting to see how this affects Eastern technology companies such as LG or NEC when people are complaining that products they never made are terrible.
While Bergman made some definitely “out there” movies, no character was more prominent in his films than God, whether it was a “sane” Christian God or some perverse shape-shifting God, hellbent on raising psychological terror. BONUS: Read/WriteWeb poll states that most respondents notice no difference in search results when using personalized Google
I can mostly agree with what Mr. MacManus states however, the result set that the articles used is very skewed. How accurate can the results be when hardly any of us search for the same or similar things routinely in order to really train the search agent? If I only search for one query once, the search agent has very little data to go off of in order to really drill down personalized results for me.
I know, it’s over a week old but came out after the last installment of Interesting Posts but it’s still awesome. Even though Sega stopped making hardware years ago and gave up on the Dreamcast way too early, they’re supposedly pumping out some awesome games soon. Personal favorites from the list are ChuChu Rocket!, Nights: Journey of Dreams, Shenmue 1-3 (even though no one knew Shenmue 3 was even in production still!), Skies of Arcadia 2 (the original was so awesome), and Space Channel 3!
I can sympathize with most of this even though I’m not a problogger but I do work at home and most of the issues hit on really can affect you. Although, as a problogger, I figured they’d have better grammar
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OK, this isn’t technically an article anyone’s written but how can you deny the coolness of this stone? I think I watched the video three or four times before finally closing the browser. Something so simple and elegant yet so beautiful to watch.
The kebah at exotic bites is v…
August 10th, 2007 • tweets
The kebah at exotic bites is very meaty but hearty
Just another reason I will never move to Texas
August 8th, 2007 • 2 comments christianity, idiocy
Here’s a link to a mathematics course description from a Christian high school in San Antonio.
I don’t know about you but someone got a bit too carried away with the copy/paste love in all of these “descriptions” which, aside from half of “Geometry”, are almost exact replicas of each other. Why bother even having math and teac forcing students through these classes when God invented math and all of its consistencies. I guess he was too busy with mathematics to bother correcting all the inconsistencies the scribes of the Bible since it’s probably not that important in any life-affirming or life guiding aspects.
How can we be sure that God got Pythagoras’ theorem correct? I mean, God created all mathematics known to man so why did he let a known blasphemous heathen steal a heavenly theorem and plaster his sacrilegious name all over God’s hard work?
Welcome CotG visitors
August 6th, 2007 • blog, carnival, web
I was recently featured in the latest Carnival of the Godless blog carnival. I want to welcome all the new visitors who will hopefully turn into readers! The new edition is up at the Atheist Revolution and go read it, it’s very good this week.
I submitted my post on the lady from West Palm Beach who wants to ban books she’s never read from her sons’ school libraries. I’m going to try and do a follow up on this shortly because I want to know how far this woman didn’t get with this.
New Boneyard’s here
August 6th, 2007 • 1 comment blog, carnival, web
No, it’s not a new barbecue restaurant or anything like, it’s a new edition of The Boneyard, a paleontology-focused blog carnival. The new one is up at Laelaps and is a refreshing read.
How awesome is paleontology?
Dear Morgan Webb
August 6th, 2007 • web
Dear Morgan Webb,
We in the tech community are glad you have a new video blog, it’s a good way to separate yourself from the atrocity of G4TV. However, there’s a problem with your show: you’re entirely too over-the-top. Calling Michelle Madigan perky is the kettle calling the pot black. Go ahead and take a look at your show yourself, we’ll wait. Your delivery is entirely too fast and your forced emotion shows through a thin veneer. We understand you have a lot of news to regurgitate to us that we all read the day before but seriously, slow down and take a breather.
Maybe you’d be able to recite your entire script more slowly if there weren’t interstitial ads tacked in the middle of your vocal blitzkrieg. We understand that 5 minutes isn’t long for a show with a lot of stories to cover but take a hint from the guys at Twatech Radio. Take it slowly and sound like you at least care about what you’re talking about because right now, it’s obvious you’re speed reading the script. Or maybe drop some of the forced facial expressions, they’re not doing anything for you anyway. The show isn’t very long but there’s enough fluff in it that could be dropped in order to make the show more enjoyable and not sound like it’s voiced by a meth addict. Remember, it’s the Internet not the Indy 500.
Lovingly,
The Tech Community