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Category Archives: Wisdom

About That Future…

Man, we live in amazing times… 50 Things We Know Now That We Didn’t Know This Time Last Year 10 Best Gadgets at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show The Future of Technology (Infographic) A Day with Google Glass… …and for a reminder of how far we’ve come…  10 Most Influential Software Packages of All-Time

Posted 12 January 2014 § Infographic § Internet § List § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

MyGutTellsMe.com

When I was in library school, one of the things that happened at the start of each semester was a mixer with current students and the new crop of future librarians. I remember one of these sessions on the patio of the Grad Club when I ended up sitting next to Barb Janicek. She struck […]

Posted 08 January 2014 § Blog § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Funny New Year’s Resolutions

I meant to post these on New Year’s Day but forgot.  But they work equally well as a Friday Fun Link…  

Posted 03 January 2014 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Meme ‡ Comments (0) °

Time: The History and Future of Everything

I know my Atheist Advent series of technically over but I’ll share one final video I had bookmarked that I thought addressed one specific issue really well, namely that a big part of the reason that human are religious is that we simply fail to grasp the time scales involved in things like evolution and […]

Posted 26 December 2013 § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 24 – Keep Christ in Christmas (aka Another Fictional Superhero On Our Van)

I had a few ideas of how to wrap up this series of Atheist Advent posts – a look at how politics and religion intersect, a review of my theories of why people (really) are religious, a disclaimer about the nature of offense in general. I will spend some time on that last point.  My […]

Posted 24 December 2013 § Censorship § Family § Humour § PopCulture § Xmas ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 23 – Music Monday – “I really like Christmas/It’s sentimental I know/But I just really like it/I’m hardly religious/I’d rather break bread with Dawkins than Desmond Tutu to be honest”

There was a method to my madness in posting a Tim Minchin song as my Music Monday selection for each of the past few weeks during my “Atheist Advent” series. It was all to lead up to Minchin’s ultimate achievement and one of the best non-traditional Christmas songs I’ve ever heard – funny, insightful, wistful, […]

Posted 23 December 2013 § Censorship § Family § Humour § MusicMonday § PopCulture § UK § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 22 – The “War” on Christmas: One Atheist’s Perspective

Every December, the stories about “The War on Christmas” pop up once again, like mole heads in a fair game – how various people in society – the politically correct, civil libertarians, atheists – are oppressing Christians by trying to neuter Christmas, make everyone say “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas”, and forego the holiday’s religious elements for commercial/secular ones (read […]

Posted 22 December 2013 § Humour § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 21 – What Could Possibly Go Wrong

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Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 20 – The Greatest Bullshit Story Ever Told: God Loves You. He Loves You and He Needs Money!

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Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 19 – Charlie Brown Explains The (Real) Meaning of Christmas

Or on a similar note…   Or this…

Posted 19 December 2013 § Censorship § Humour § PopCulture § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,