Thou shalt not mixeth thy Space Lego™ with thy Pirate Lego™
February 10, 2008
Paul just sent me a link to the Brick Testament*, which appears to be a version of the Christian Bible comprehensively illustrated with Lego.
Brilliant.
* Warning: Site include NSFW images of of Lego Nudity, Lego Violence, and Lego sexual themes.
The Geologic Universe
February 9, 2008
One of the things I’ve been tied up with over the last month has been my novice attempts at putting together audio content to contribute to a fancast celebrating the one year anniversary of the Geologic Podcast. It’s been something of a steep learning curve, but overall quite rewarding.
The Geologic Podcast is an intelligent and humorous (though often NSFW) layered blend of music, sketch comedy, rants, atheism, skepticism, science and bald jokes. If that’s not enough to get you interested, he’s just posted a video clip for the Assumption. Take a look, it’s brilliant.
Long time no see
February 9, 2008
Heya. It’s been a while since I posted, but there really just hasn’t been much to send me into rant mode. Which I suppose is actually a good thing. If you want to get all technical about it.
If this keeps up I might have to start being optimistic or something. Madness.
linux.conf.au on $0 a day
February 1, 2008
Linux Conf is back in Melbourne.
I live here and I couldn’t even get within sniffing distance of tickets, so if like me you’re hungry to get your nerd on, they are posting video and slide files on the website as the presentations take place. Yum.
Wil Wheaton audio
January 30, 2008
I think I now understand Phil Plait’s man crush. Wil Wheaton was just at the Pheonix Comicon and there is some audio of him performing an excerpt from his book Happiest Days of Our Lives, and his review of the Star Trek Next Generation episode Justice from TV Squad.
Death cold coffee from the skies!
January 30, 2008
In case you’re interested, the asteroid TU24 has passed it’s point of closest approach, and we appear to have avoided fiery liquid death. (Although my coffee was a little cold this morning … Gah! Curse you TU24!)
Security and privacy are not a zero sum game
January 30, 2008
Another brilliant essay by Bruce Schneier, examining the false dichotomy of security versus privacy.
Debating Science
January 29, 2008
I as a general rule, I don’t think that the debate format is appropriate to scientific topics. A debate necessarily has a winner, whose ascendancy is determined by their ability to make a superior argument in the eyes of some theoretically impartial adjudicator. Reality however, doesn’t really care about rhetoric or majority opinion, and neither should science. The debate format is a circus, lending equal weight to opposing views that may or may not merit such treatment and which may or may not fully encompass all of the possible views. It also presupposes that the debaters are themselves qualified to argue their points and that the adjudicating person(s) is similarly competent to impartially weigh the opposing arguments.
As a case in point, consider this debate between Christopher Hitchens and Jay Wesley Richards.
Death Sentence for Afghan Student
January 24, 2008
KABUL, Afghanistan - An Afghan court in northern Afghanistan sentenced a journalism student to death for blasphemy for distributing an article from the Internet that was considered an insult to the Prophet Muhammad, the judge in charge of the court said Wednesday.
*Smack*
Here we go again.
Nasty old men should be seen and not heard
January 24, 2008
The disgusting black hearted evil hate-monger Fred Phelps strikes again, arranging a picket of Heath Ledger’s funeral. I guess it was too much to hope that he might have learned his lesson.
Sometimes it sucks to be an atheist, because I don’t even have the comfort that the miserable old bastard will eventually get what he deserves.
*Sigh*
