Year: 2010

“Jason, Do You Have A Half-Baked Theory On Why People Are Religious?” Why, Yes I Do!

I’ve talked to many people over the years about religion and faith and have developed my own personal theory why I think people are religious. I know people

Music Monday – “Look through a faithless eye/Are you afraid to die?”

Atheism week continues here on the Head Tale with today’s Music Monday clip, “Thoughts of a Dying Atheist” by Muse. A quick review of the lyrics could provide

The Evolution of an Atheist

With Christmas falling on a Saturday this year, I’m thinking of doing a full week-long series of posts about Atheism, culminating with my annual snarky tongue-in-cheek humourous atheism-themed

Saturday Snap – Ninja Bowling?

It’s hard to see but this is a clip of Pace playing a bowling game on the Kinect. (Of course, from his actions, you’d think the game was

Friday Fun Link – Google Books NGram Viewer

A Google Labs project, the strangely named NGram Viewer allows you to search for various words and see how their usage in books within the Google Books archive

Awesome Google Docs “Presentation” Mode Demo

This slideshow presentation was made only using Google Docs’ “Presentation” mode – no Flash, no animation software, no trickery at all!

A World Map Drawn With Facebook Connections

With the announcement of Mark Zuckerberg as Time’s 2010 “Person of the Year”, I thought it would be fitting to post this awesome map that’s been created by

Winners of 2010 Pimp My BookCart Contest Announced

This year’s winners of the annual “Pimp My Bookcart” contest have been announced. This was the contest’s fifth and final year so people appear to have gone all

Music Monday – “Scrambled Eggs/Oh my baby, how I love your legs”

A famous bit of Beatles trivia is that Paul McCartney woke up one day with the fully formed melody for “Yesterday” running through his head. He didn’t have

“Imagine for a moment that you know a man who beats his wife.”

Sorry to go to “all WikiLeaks, all the time” lately but this story really interests me for all the implications it has in a number of areas –

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