Exploring the Infinite
Surprise! I missed posting last week's 5 for Fri. since we were in Toronto for Tucows' summer party. So to make up for it, you get a few bonus tracks this week and on a humpday even… why? Because I needed something to post today, that's why! Also, I was inspired by this elegantly written excerpt that I wanted to
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215330897449&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull If I lived there, I’d get sentenced to death for my blog. Thank you, veterans and patriots for our freedom.
Viral video, I know, I know. Just wanted to share this with my daughters.
http://hopeline.com/ Agreed that the government has no business with suicide hotlines.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080627-louisiana-passes-first-antievolution-academic-freedom-law.html Great news everyone! Now all the fundies can move to muddy Louisiana and live in an ignorant utopia where dinosaur bones only exist because Satan is trying to confuse them. Maybe if they pray hard enough and systematically remove all the gays, God will stop sending hurricanes there and it will be even dandier! From the page: The bill
Warning: Adult content through and through. I mean, it's George Carlin. Do I really have to state that? (It’s funny because it’s true.)
http://morepeace.org/Stickers.htm Free bumper stickers!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Barr OK, I went back and read it again today… Someone is hacking his page. They really need to limit revisions on entries for presidential candidates. I’ll give him some slack in that he may have had a change of heart in the last few years and is no longer Republican but more Libertarian.
http://www.neublack.com/features/featured-artist-banksy?src=su C’mon, who doesn’t love Banksy.
http://bentolman.deviantart.com/journal/18574358 This week, the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to introduce the Orphan Works Act of 2008. If you care about protecting your work, you’re against it. It will have the effect of wiping out any copyright on visual art now in existence, throwing your work into the public domain. If you wish to protect your work (each and
Funny thing happens when you raise minimum wage – the price of everything goes up, resulting in a paycut for the middle class. This country has been hijacked by the religious right and big biz. (Thanks for sending, B)
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/31585,features,sweet-and-sour-tale-of-the-miracle-berry I’m not at all surprised about this considering they did the same thing with stevia extract. http://www.stevia.net/ I once read the reasoning behind this is because it’s so healthy, cheap,(and patent-free) because noncaloric sweeteners are big business in the U.S., same with sugar and the sugar-alcohols, sorbital, mannitol and xylitol.
http://www.tvguide.com/movies/expelled-intelligence-allowed/review/293361 I’m sick and tired of Creationists wailing about “no one listens to us!” when 78.5% of the American population identify themselves as Christian and the number of American Jews is at 6.4 million, or approximately 2.1% of the total population. So you’re telling me that over 80% of Americans believe in Creationism but no one listens to your drivel?