An Anti-Religion Rant
On one of my mailing lists, a member was posting about the fact that he felt powerless to change the way the world was going. Someone else replied with this: Ma...
Category: Life
Scientists and God
Following a link from a new (to me) science blog (Cosmic Variance) that I found by following a link from Pharyngula, I came across this very good article (My Go...
Charles Darwin’s Complete Works Online!
Cambridge University (UK) has performed a sterling task for both the public and researchers around the world by placing on the Internet the complete works of on...
If I were dating…
I’d so totally go for this dating profile on User Friendly. I love the references.
Richard Dawkins on The Colbert Report
A wonderful interview with Richard Dawkins on The Colbert Report. Dawkins holds his own with good humor against Colbert’s highly sarcastic interview style...
Another reason I would be going to hell
If there was such a place. According to The Register, the Reformed Church of God has decided that blogging is un-Christian. The Internet—and more specifically b...
Top Ten Reasons Religion is Like Pornography
From over at PZ Myer’s place: Top Ten Reasons Religion is Like Pornography 10. It has been practiced for all of human history, in all cultures 9. It explo...
White and Nerdy
As a followup to my post about Nerd Rap, here is Weird Al’s video for White and Nerdy Hilarious, as usual.
Nerd, Geek or Dork?
Take the Nerd, Geek or Dork? test! My disappointing score: Joe Normal 43% Nerd, 34% Geek, 21% Dork For The Record: A Nerd is someone who is passionate about lea...
Mencken’s Creed
I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind–that it’s modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side hav...