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Resurrecting An Idea…

Last Christmas, I did a week-long series of posts exploring the topic of religion in general and my atheism specifically. One of my posts was about how, even though believers will give dozens of reasons why they are religious, from my perspective there were three main reasons I thought people actually were religious – whether […]

¶ Posted 24 April 2011 § Randomness ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: atheism, history, holiday

Saturday Snap – The World’s Most Boring Privacy Violation

It’s just come out that the iPhone creates a secret file on user’s computers without their knowledge or permission which has a record of their geo-location information. Unsurprisingly, this has privacy advocates up in arms. Jessamyn West wrote about this and linked to a small app you can download which can help you visualize what […]

¶ Posted 23 April 2011 § SaturdaySnap § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Sex on a First Date to Long Term Prospects, A Dating Site Knows All?

Dating site, OKCupid, has a really interesting blog where they draw on their massive data pool from site members profiles and interactions to come up with some revealing information.

¶ Posted 11 February 2011 § FridayFunLink ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: parents

The Beauty of the PVR

We have a PVR on our TV and one of the biggest benefits for me is the ability to all but avoid commercials – either by recording programs and watching them at a later time or even while watching a show in near real-time. This is especially useful for “event” television like oh, I don’t […]

¶ Posted 06 February 2011 § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: facebook, sports, television, twitter

Sappy Sunday – First Steps in the Sun

This is a tough one to watch – a couple beagles rescued from a laboratory are filmed as they take their first steps outside on grass and into the sun (with mawkish music on the soundtrack to magnify the effect.) (via MetaFilter which gets into an interesting debate about the pros and cons of animal […]

¶ Posted 30 January 2011 § Politics § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, health

Friday Fun Link – Making Stairs Fun

It’s no secret that I’m interested in the role of “fun” – fun at work, fun at home, fun in life – not just because fun is, well, FUN! but because I strongly believe it has a real impact on how people work, live and interact. One timely example comes from the National Family Literacy […]

¶ Posted 28 January 2011 § FridayFunLink § Library § MemoryLane § Video § Work ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: economics, health

State of the Union

Watched the “State of the Union” address and thought it was pretty decent – not Obama’s best by far – but good. A few random thoughts… Boehner always looks like he’s about to cry Can’t remember what the point was about but I counted exactly once where Boehner clapped and Biden didn’t. Love the focus […]