February 2009
Scientologists send anti-Psychiatrists diatribe to... →
The Citizens Commission On Human Rights, a spin-off of the Church of Scientology, is sending DVDs to GPs across Australia which claims that psychiatrists are money-grubbing quacks who invent diseases so that they can become rich by prescribing drugs; unlike Scientologists who are money-grubbing quacks who invited a religion and become rich by prescribing “auditing” programs.
In the US...
Ha!
Finally figured out how to debug IronPython scripts in Visual Studio C# 2005 Express Edition (too cheap to buy the Pro version).
It’s great when something actually works for a change.
heatherly:
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robot-heart:
digitaljourney:joshawesome:noahkai:bluddyellmiss: livedeliberate: sinkships:(via abbytoir)
The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (N) 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (Y) 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (N) 4 Harry Potter series - JK...
The ten commandments
via thinkfree:
The Ten Commandments, the ethical foundation of western culture… or so the religionists claim. But if you ask anyone to recite them all, almost none can name all ten (I can!). In fact, there’s more than one version of the decalogue. While Protestants and Roman Catholics use Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5 as their basis for it, they come up slightly different lists:Protestant...
“The Hebrew-pagan God Yahveh has all the gods of Greece and of every known...”
– Joseph Wheless (via thinkfree)
“One reason that the ignorant also tend to be the blissfully self-assured, the...”
– Among the Inept, Researchers Discover, Ignorance Is Bliss - New York Times (via pilnick)
Diners' mystery illness closes restaurant →
British restaurant “Fat Duck” has being closed after 40 dinners fell ill from a mystery illness after eating there.
One of best-known dishes at “Fat Duck” was “snail porridge”.
I’m not sure what the mystery is….
“And these new priorities are laid out in a document whose clarity and...”
– Nobel Prize winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman [link] (via notthatkindagay) (via girlindc)
Why the Next Firefox Upgrade Matters →
“Worker Threads”
Vatican imperils lives with drug stance →
The Vatican, you know those people who support Holocaust-deniers, are attempting to influence a United Nations drug policy. The Vatican objects to “harm reduction”, such as needle exchange schemes, instead preferring “abstinence”; since it works so well in preventing teenage pregnancy.
This has now spiralled into fierce debate between the US “War On Drugs, and...
“Many people look at the flag of the Republic of New Africa that was hoisted over...”
– Richard Barrett, leader of the white supremacist Nationalist Movement.
Seems not everybody is happy with the election of President Obama. KKK membership has also seen a boost since the inauguration and the economic downturn is helping as well.
Where does all this hate and stupidity come from?
Women should say yes, yes, and yes! Please →
Sex therapist and psychologist Bettina Arndt claims that women are saying “no” too often to their partners’ requests for sex and urges them to say “yes” more often.
She claims that differing libidos in men and women are creating a generation of men who are “miserable, angry and really disappointed”.
Iraq's LBGT "Underground Railroad" →
A secret network of safe houses and escape routes is saving gay Iraqis from execution by Islamist death squads.
Gays are being shot dead in their homes, streets and workplaces. Even suspected gay children are being murdered. The murders are being orchestrated by the police and security agents.
This campaign of terror is sanctioned by Iraq’s leading Shia cleric, Grand Ayatohlah Ali...
She's just not that into you →
A study at Indiana University has found that women are very good at faking sexual interest; ie they can flirt with guys while at the same time thinking “I wish this guy would just leave me alone”.
NOTE to women who do this, if you want the guy to leave you alone then flirting with him is sending the wrong signal. We guys are simple types and we do take a lot of things at face value.
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Wag the tail: White House's first dog arriving in... →
Now we are finally getting to the important stuff!
Portuguese water dog. Name sugestions from the kids include Frank and Moose; First Lady not impressed
Best Pizza in the World is Australian. →
Delizioso Cafe in Perth, Western Australia has won the Pizza Festiva award at the International Pizza Expo in Las Vagas.
Name a piece of the ISS →
All the Firefly fans out there might want to get involved in an online vote that NASA is running to name a new module for the International Space Station. Serenity is one of the options and is currently winning.
“We humans have a saying that we like to get a leg over, but these placoderms...”
– Dr John Hall, Museum of Victoria
A 375 million-year-old fossilised fish is the oldest evidence of sex using copulation. The placoderms had fin-like sexual organs, fins would eventually evolve into legs of land animals, including us, hence Dr Hall’s comparison.
Kelp is on the way for Toyota →
Toyota showed off a concept car at the Melbourne Motor show which is almost entirely made of seaweed.
The seaweed was used to make the plastic used in the car.
The 500cc car weighs in at 420kg, which is half the weight of a Corolla but delivers similar performance to the 1.8-litre petrol hatch.
However, we won’t see it at the dealers anytime soon it is described as “a concept car of...
Traveling Wave Reactor →
A new reactor design being developed by a privately funded research company, Intellectual Ventures, could result in nuclear reactors running for a couple of 100 years without the need to be refuelled.
The reactor is initially fuelled by a small amount of enriched material and a lot of nonfissle material (uranium-238). As the reactor runs the reactor converts the nonfissle material into the fuel...
NASA's Climate Satellite Crashes Back to Earth →
A satellite designed to answer some of the remaining questions in climate-change science has ended up in the ocean after a launch failure.
Sort of symbolises all our efforts to combat climate-change to date.
“There’s something to be said for nunneries. I’m not sure...”
– Germaine Greer as quoted in Jane Richards’ Sydney Morning Herald article “You go girls - but don’t expect things to change”
In her article Ms Richards contemplates the fact that a number of high profile Australian women (in media, business and politics) attribute part of...
Facebook et al risk 'infantilising' the human mind →
According to leading neuroscientist Lady Greenfield, professor of synaptic pharmacology at Lincoln college, Oxford, and director of the Royal Institution the use of Social Networking sites is infantilising the 21st century mind. Leaving it characterised by short attention spans, sensationalism, inability to empathise and a shaky sense of identity.
Meh!
10 Emerging Technologies 2009 →
MIT’s Technology Review’s 2009 list of the 10 emerging technologies that they believe will change the way we live.
The new theme is pretty, no?
girlindc:
That said, my first born to whomever can make disqus comments work with the damn thing.
(The theme’s HTML is weird and lacks the proper locations for disqus’ codes. Grr.)
Pretty, yes. Can you post, or give a link to the html your using for your page. I think we’re looking for the section starting with <div class=”post but I could be wrong.
“Since the Bible and the church are obviously mistaken in telling us where we...”
– Anonymous (via thegreatradsby) (via mikesova)
“The process of Christian accommodation [for scientific ideas] is a bit like the...”
– Colin Blakemore in his article “Science is just one gene away from defeating religion”
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saintjustin:
Stomach wants, brain is indifferent. Damn it.
Some Medieval food ideas for you.
Crowd expected for rogue priest stand-off →
A “sacked” Roman Catholic Priest in Brisbane is defying orders to leave and says he will speak today at a Mass at his parish.
Father Kennedy was dismissed for refusing to stop unorthodox practices. His sins include allowing women to preach, blessing gay couples, describing the Virgin Birth story as nonsense, and claiming the church is dysfunctional.
If only he’d being a...
“Christianity is the Believer’s Social Life, That’s All it Is, Was or Ever Will...”
– John W. Loftus (via brigno)