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Minecraft Mania!

Saskatchewan Legislature Re-created in Minecraft So today, Majong, the company formed around the hugely popular Minecraft video game, released the TU14 update for Minecraft on XBox360. If you’ve been living under a rock (or at least without an obsessed six year old in your house!), Minecraft is a “sandbox” game – basically, a game that […]

Posted 26 March 2014 § Library § Meme § Pace § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Why Do Atheists Deny The Existence of God?

For the same reason we deny the existence of fire-breathing dragons.

Posted 23 March 2014 § Randomness § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – One Thing I Noticed About Pace’s Report Card…

I have an English degree so can’t help but notice that Pace went from “MEeeting” to “EsTablished” (which is the highest level in the school’s rating system) in English Language Arts between the first and second terms of Grade One. Shea has a degree in Nursing and I also noticed that his Health Education mark […]

Posted 22 March 2014 § Humour § Pace § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – Copyrighted Books For Free, Legally! (Offer Only Good in Norway)

On top of the recent news that by being excellent stewards of their country’s oil wealth, each Norway citizen was now a “millionaire”* (as opposed to some oil-rich jurisdictions that weren’t quite so successful in this regard), comes this story about the National Library of Norway finding a way to make copyrighted works available to […]

Posted 17 January 2014 § Canada § FridayFunLink § Library § Politics § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § Technology § Travel § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

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 § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Wringing Out A Towel in Space

I got Chris Hadfield’s “An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth” as a Christmas gift and just finished it.  That inspired me to revisit some of the videos he made on the International Space Station. How cool is this one?  (And am I the only one who wonders how they ensure the little bubbles of […]

Posted 09 January 2014 § Canada § Meme § PopCulture § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

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 § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 17 – God Is Love

Just kidding…he’s kind of an evil asshole:

Posted 17 December 2013 § Censorship § List § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 15 – Christopher Hitchens RIP

Amazing man. Watch this…

Posted 15 December 2013 § Politics § UK § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 14 – How Tigers Got Their Stripes – Science vs. Religion

One of my big problems with religion is that it demonstrably makes people more gullible – about east Indian call centres telling you that your computer has a virus and psychics charging $0.99/minute and even the “official” word you hear on the evening news and in the daily newspaper. Because if you believe the Bible’s […]

Posted 14 December 2013 § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , ,