Atheist Bastard

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I'm reminded of New Year's Eve 2000: As midnight edged closer it became crushingly obvious to everyone that the symbolic rollover w...

Ugh , what is it about Austrians. The closest thing to prefiguring this would be Seidl's Dog Days from 2001. For all the times that ...

We accept the fundamentalists' view of their religions as being the most accurate , because we want to nail down what religions are , an...

Via the other person who thought he was clever by playing on " Memex ," I finally found Ted Nelson's Way Out of the Box (tem...

Going on a tangent about that piece of art which gave rise to some sentences you don't often see , I wound up on the Dimensions blog , ...

Aliza Shvarts , an art major at Yale, issued a press release that she's due to present a project consisting of the blood and potential 1...

The army of pharamaceutical-fundamentalists marching under the banner of just say no to drugs must be stopped . After all, hasn't the ...

Can an interactive web site produce false memories? The interactive demo was more likely to produce false memories of the product -- potenti...

...movies which celebrate the same lifestyle of surface, built on a foundation of violence... Music to my ears , of course. Say, could this...

Breaking: In vitro meat . For the next couple of days, I'm probably going to walk around muttering "tubemeat" to myself while ...

At long last, after combining this interview with this review , I've realized what it would take to enjoy the Matrix trilogy: You have...

Watch as freelance comic adventurer extraordinaire, Ryan Estrada , releases new portmanteaux (¿ Que ?) into Korean . I think this is one o...

Proving that false dichotomies are not exclusive to the right, your friendly local chapter of diehard communists may present you with the c...

I've seen not one but two instances of Post-it ® love notes today. Is this some sort of alternative Valentine's sponsored by 3M? ...

...I voted for the atheist apocalypse . Those are clearly Dawkins and someone familiar as the harbingers of science and reason, but I comp...

Ban Ki-moon apparently denounces Geert Wilders' film about how the Quran is a recipe for TERRORFASCISTONAZISM (pulled by Network Solut...

Iran protests the Swedish local newspaper Nerikes Allehanda printing a Muhammed charicature by one Lars Vilks who saw the opportunity to ...

The Extended Phenotype , p. 13: The important point is that there is no general reason for expecting genetic influences to be any more irrev...

Enemies of Reason pt. 1 is out . It has an excellent soundbite where an astrologer's response to bringing up swapping people's hor...

Concluding this three-part series on drawing lessons from scummy internet baiting, we have a tactic I just culled from the end of a bit of...

Reading up on e-mail fraud, aka. phishing , I found this illuminating paper by M Jakobsson: The Human Factor in Phishing [PDF], which has t...

...no, I'm not talking about MAKING.VISIBILITY.FA$T, I mean that a lot of psychological fallacies that used to be difficult to talk abou...

It would seem the mind abhors a vacuum. Shortly after I'd invented the farcical example of a dodecahedron-shaped earth, I found myself...

Flat Earth vs. spherical Earth is often used as an example of opposing viewpoints. However, a lot of popular propositions are all of them ...

I just had a really kooky thought. This was spurred by having my concept of genetic information straightened out . The upshot is, the tec...

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The relation of Unspeak™ to advertising slogans and such seemed like it should be obvious, but I couldn't put my finger on it until I ...

So I took Dawkins' own advice, and read The Extended Phenotype . What struck me afterwards was that the influence from artificial - inte...