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Wikipedia bans the “Church” of Scientology: Exclusive In an unprecedented effort to crack down on self-serving edits, the Wikipedia supreme court has banned contributions from all IP addresses owned or operated by the Church of Scientology and its associates. Closing out the longest-running court case in Wikiland history, the site’s Arbitration Committee voted 10 to [...]
[Rendered possibility? Or one of my sci-fi Gimpshops? ;) The latter of course!] What will the future look like? It would be foolhardy to venture technological predictions for 2050. Even more so to predict social and geopolitical changes. The most important advances, the qualitative leaps, are the least predictable. Not even the best scientists predicted [...]
Liberty vs. democracy. Political columnist Jeff Schapiro says though they called their university Liberty, the Falwells didn’t allow much democracy. See the video here.
This video is a very well done typographical poem for all (especially skeptics). The description on YouTube reads: Tim Minchin’s brilliant & witty demolition of irrationality in all its many guises – with rolling text from me -all in the medium of a 9-minute beat poem. Audio from the QEH Dec 2008 show with kind [...]
Rebecca Rubin is the first (openly) Jewish American Girl doll and an 18-inch tall controversy. We always secretly thought that Molly was the Jewish one, but now the wildly successful American Girl has released an official Jewish doll. Our inner 11-year-old girls are simply plotzing. Does this mean all the others must be Christian by [...]
[More photos] Vjack writes an important and moving post concerning the implications for atheists from the Proposition 8 California Supreme Court Ruling. Proposition 8 should be a nightmare scenario for any atheist because it shows us that well-funded religious groups can essentially mold the law to enforce their bigotry. They believed that same-sex marriage is [...]
