March 2007

Does your computer illuminate an emtpy room?

March 19, 2007

If you answered yes, did you know that you’ve been helping me contribute to a loss of over 30 billion kilowatt-hours of power each year? A barrel of oil contains 42 gallons and produces an average 556 kilowatt hours of electrical power. Now consider your computer. A good spec PC can use up to 200 [...]

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Carnival of the Godless #62

March 19, 2007

The 62nd Carnival of the Godless is up at Black Sun Journal and includes a good take down of the Paper Hanky Church. I think they let a retarded monkey go to town with the b, u, and i buttons in Word. It is seemingly random. Maybe its some sort of strange Bible underline/bold code [...]

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Standing outside the fire

March 19, 2007
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How to drive Christians stark raving mad

March 18, 2007

It’s pretty simple to do. After 34 years of public service announce you’re a non theist and then just sit back and enjoy: Mike Mears of Concerned Women for America: “It is unfortunate in a society that is going down the path of godlessness and making right wrong and wrong right, that we continue down [...]

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Preaching what they don’t know

March 17, 2007

It’s one thing to preach what you don’t practice, but what about preaching what you don’t know? This appears to be the case with a majority of Americans according to a quiz given by Stephen Prothero, chairman of the religion department at Boston University. We are not just talking about Americans being ignorant of other [...]

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The Long Kiss Dubai

March 15, 2007
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Nobody here but us bigots

March 14, 2007

Suzanne Fields of the Washington Times has a new article out and she starts swinging with the opening sentence. There are no atheists in foxholes, as any dogface soldier could tell you, and neither are there many atheists in politics. Looking death in the face, whether in a foxhole or at the polls, makes a [...]

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Interview with Brian Flemming

March 14, 2007

Here’s a good interview with Brian Flemming, the man behind The God Who Wasn’t There and one of the founders of the Blasphemy Challenge that has sent many of a theist and even a few atheists into a full-blown tantrum. Some excerpts: On the Blasphemy Challenge: The Blasphemy Challenge is radical compared to how we [...]

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Who killed the sharks?

March 14, 2007
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Humans behaving very very badly

March 13, 2007

Earlier this morning I read this post by Brian Switek about the slaughtering of rattlesnakes here in Texas. I thought that was bad until I came across this post by PZ Myers about this video (warning: extremely graphic depiction of dolphins suffering agonizing deaths). Even though I spent some of my childhood on a farm [...]

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