Archive for August 21st, 2008
Offensive — But Funny — Religious Image
I found this image in the RSS feed of a popular atheist multi-author blog. When I went to visit the site, however, the image and its post had gone 404. Apparently someone decided it was a bit too offensive for the tone of the site. Me, I don’t have any such compunctions (plus, seriously, its [...]
Were the Voting Machine Conspiracy Theorists Right?
This New York Times blog entry is simply insane,
Ohio is an election battleground state with perennial problems at the polls. So what have election officials in some precincts of the state been doing to keep their voting machines safe from tampering?
Taking the machines home with them and stashing them in their garages in the days [...]
The Long Now’s Rosetta Disc Finally Comes to Fruition
Wow — I remember back in 2000 when the Long Now project first started talking about its Rosetta Disc project. The idea was to look at ways of preserve cultural information for very long periods of time. We’ve got more data than ever before, but how much of it is going to be preserved in [...]
Is Watchmen Cursed?
Just when it looked like we were actually going to finally get to see a Watchmen movie, along comes a lawsuit by 20th Century Fox claiming that it — not Warner Bros. — has the film rights to Watchmen.
That in itself wouldn’t be all that surprising. Rights to properties like this can pass through multiple [...]
Atomic Learning’s StoryBoard Pro
Atomic Learning’s StoryBoard Pro is a free storyboarding software package “designed to give teachers, students, and home movie makers a tool to plan ahead when creating video projects.”
Praying for Oil
I was going to write a gratuitous slam on Pray At The Pump’s efforts to pray for lower gasoline prices in the United States. Then I realized that Pray at the Pump’s understanding of how oil markets work is no less irrational than either John McCain or Barack Obama’s apparent understanding of oil markets, so [...]
