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Saturday, March 29th, 2008Yet another good TED video about the “design” of modern religions as a case for studying all religions through a scientific lens:
Valentines Day in India
Saturday, February 16th, 2008My mom is, aside from an exceptional gift giver, a lover of history and culture. So this Valentine’s Day I gave my mom a different sort of gift. I had someone in India call her - from India - to give her a history lesson on the history of Valentines Day in India and it’s […]
A-OK at JFK
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007I’m at JFK right now, passing the time of my six hour layover in route to Ukraine. JFK is a really nice airport, or at least the international terminal is. My only complaint is the lack of power outlets. After walking the length of the terminal twice, and after encountering a few death-stares over power […]
The Simpsons
Friday, July 27th, 2007Oh, how I love The Simpsons. I’m going to see the movie tonight, despite that I feel destined for disappointment. Will it be all a Simpsons movie could be? Probably not.
But any way…
What I really like about The Simpsons is it’s irreverence towards… everything. One of my favorite moments is this song, sung my Mr. […]
Ideas to die for
Sunday, July 8th, 2007Dan Dennett talks about toxic memes and their virus-like ability to wipe out entire cultures. Dennett’s assertion that memes are, in some cases (communism, capitalism, Islam, Catholicism, and many more), essentially deadly parasites is an interesting perspective.
As interesting as Dennett’s ideas are, I tend to take a more simplistic view. While memes may be wiping […]
Fraud Warning
Friday, June 8th, 2007My laptop has been stolen. That means that if I had your contact information, now some asshole thief has it too.
If you get any strange calls mentioning me, don’t tell them anything about yourself or me. If someone comes to your door asking about me, don’t tell them anything about yourself or me.
Remember that they […]
Hell in a handbasket
Friday, June 1st, 2007Thank you Steve
Monday, May 7th, 2007After Global Warming - A Prediction for bio-fuels
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007I’ve been gardening a lot lately, and through learning about soil, sunshine, and miracle grow, I’ve decided that bio-fuels may not be so great. The production of such fuels removes energy that would otherwise be returned to the soil (that whole “circle of life” thing). So based on that and some arbitrary, uneducated time estimates, […]
The Tomb of Jesus
Monday, February 26th, 2007According to this
article, a documentary that will air on the Discovery Channel March 4th, will claim to have discovered the burial site of Jesus. The Jesus. Not surprisingly, there has already been a lot of criticism of this finding, despite none of the critics having yet seen it.
How can such a claim be […]