Archive for May 2009

May292009

If Every Atheist Left America…

H/t

May292009

Church of Scientology: BANNED …by Wikipedia

2CHO 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 0 (with one abstention) in favor of the move, which takes effect immediately.

May282009

The Future of Earth

No Dumping

[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 the impact of nuclear physics, and everyday consumer items such as the iPhone would have seemed magic back in the 1950s.