February 2010
January 2010
http://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/01/30/a-quick-note-... →
$15 for an E-BOOK? Macmillan, are you on crack? Amazon, you’re not off the hook for monopoly though. #amazonfail
Ruining Kids in Order To Save Them, Ct’d…
Friday, January 29th, 2010 by Radley Balko
Indiana boy, 12, and girl, 13, charged with felony child exploitation and possession of child pornography for sending one another naked pictures of themselves via cell phone.
The idiots charging them out to be tarred and feathered.
MORE: A commenter points to this passage, which is even scarier:
“Illinois legislation is pending to make it illegal to...
Cops stop cyclist with butcher knife-pool cue axe
ALEXANDRIA, La. – Alexandria police said man stopped for riding his bicycle at night without a headlight was carrying a weapon made from a butcher knife attached to a pool cue. They said the 51-year-old man also had a razor blade in his hat. He was booked with illegally carrying a weapon, doing so after a felony conviction, resisting an officer, public intoxication and at least five outstanding...
Stuck in head now: Monkey Halo MASHUP Foo Fighters...
Even the President can't protect Congress
vulgrin:
The media seems shocked and / or jubilant about the results from Massachusetts this morning. Why?
To abuse a sports metaphor, Congress has taken the healthcare football that Obama threw to them and not only fumbled at the 50, but at the 40, the 30, the 20 and the 10. Then they sat on the field, took apart the stitching on the football, stuffed the thing with cash and prizes, and then...
Things Atheists Didn't Do in 2009 | Quick Hitts →
templesmith:
sampagan:
maafna:
bildungsroman:
See part 2 as well.
Things #atheists didn’t do in 2009
WatchThat’s what marching band lacked - ghillie suits!
OK Go - This Too Shall Pass Audioporn Central
Watch
Audioporn Central
The Reborn Identity – Crowded World mp3 Crowded House – Don’t Dream It’s Over Take That – Rule The World
new video for an old mashup from 2008 spiced up with clips from Terry Gilliam’s Brazil
Beware of Science Fiction!
ensignau:
This may be the best thing I’ve read all day.
David Cloud, founder of Fundamentalist Baptist Way of Life Literature and Ministries exhorts his reader(s?) to stay away from the profoundly atheistic genre of sci-fi, including such dangerous authors as Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Arthur Clarke, Kurt Vonnegut, and Gene Roddenberry.
Science fiction takes the reader into a...
"Fuck this. We have a good writer, we have the... →
davidpress:
natashavc:
Oh, hello my new favorite website!
(sidenote: i don’t know if HST always sent notes like these but i feel that they are potent and any writer/blogger/twitter should be judicious in their ‘FUCK OFF’ correspondences because of diminishing quality of returns/impact? like if you KNOW you’re going to get a pissed off rant from a writer at every turn people get numb. the...
Again with the cluelessness
(Originally embloginated at Blogger)
Here, let me fix that Rant for you:
Why do the taxpayers of Fort Wayne and Allen County who ride bicycles or just don’t drive have to pay as much in taxes for roads as those who use them (with cars and trucks) all the time? Bicyclists should get some paths and a share of the infrastructure as they pay into the taxes that fund the roads as well.
There...
“Musician David Byrne, author of The Bicycle Diaries, illustrated the absurdity...”
– David Byrne via David Alpert in the Next American City blog
Irish atheists challenge blasphemy law →
eloso:
thenewnews:
Because when you get past the crusades, jihads, racism and wars, all religions just want to get along. And this requires the suppresion of free speech in an entire country. A western country. A ‘civilised’ country. A country even Americans can point out on a map from time to time.
This isn’t fun anymore.
The 25 quotes are here, and i’m pleased to see they include George...
