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10 Books About Atheism You’ll Want for Christmas (1)
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Yeah, you don’t technically celebrate Christmas, but that won’t stop you from asking for presents or buying something for yourself. Here’s are some of my recommendations for atheist books you’ll want this holiday season. (And by that, I mean I want them this holiday season.) Some of them have been around for a while, some you probably haven’t heard of, and some won’t be published until next year (but you can pre-order them now). … ...Shared by terry (5)Contribute comment -
Walmart Price FAIL (3)
onThe question is: Will a Christian actually buy one now?: Also, how come Satan is naked while Jesus gets a t-shirt…? (Thanks to Rose for the link!)Contribute comment
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How Can Atheists Win the War on Christmas? (1)
onJoe M. has an answer to that question: Don’t bother playing the game. Also remember that the person that wishes you a “Happy Holiday” has no way of knowing if you are christian, jewish, muslim, or atheist and is honestly just wishing you well for the season. Take that as the kindness that it is. … Atheists: remember that this season does have religious meaning to a majority of folks. In the spirit of goodwill, ...Shared by terry (5)Contribute comment
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After the Week of Sex, How Could They Go Back? (1)
onI wonder how future church “challenges” will go over with the crowd now that the week of sex is over. Good luck getting the congregation to read the Bible now. … Attempting to draw a contrast with a recent Dallas church’s own 7-day challenge, [pastor Henry] Waldrip suggested that Christians ought to spend more time reading their Bibles. He then went on to challenge his congregation to “read their Bibles every day for a week.” ...Shared by terry (5)Contribute comment
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Water Magic (1)
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Water has always been a common focus of snake-oil health cons and belief systems. There is certainly something appealing and wholesome about fresh, pure water. It is easy to feel, on a gut level, that water can be more than just healthy and necessary - that it may contain magical healing properties. Our near reverence for pure water also makes sense from an evolutionary point of view - access to potable water has likely been ...Shared by terry (5)Contribute comment -
Don’t yell at me. (34)
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Shared by BasikX (0) Ben (3) Brendon Troy (0) brice (2) Bryan (0) Chung (6) Dan (0) David (0) Daz (10) Denubis (0) djspark (0) EggHe/\D (0) erbianchi (0) foolarch (2) Friar-Zero (1) Goktug Gedik (2) HokieGeek (3) Jason (0) Jennie Lin (0) Josh (18) KincaidKMF (0) Matt (0) Maxim (0) Mike (0) Nikita Pasynkov (0) Roshni (0) Sam (0) Sean Sharp (4) Suzanne (20) terry (5) Tim McAlpine (0) Tom (0) vergil66 (0) ydant (7)Explore read five notes- BasikX said: For my wife, who just recently got her first bluetooth headset.
- Suzanne said: i don't know why but it always gets me in grocery stores, it takes me a second to realize that they are talking on the phone :P
- Maxim said: MF!
- Bryan said: And there is a special skill ditinguishing between A and B.
- EggHe/\D said: That's the matter with technology. :)
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XKCD - Egg Drop Failure (98)
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"Mixed content warning", how I loathe thee! (5)
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Browsers try their best to protect users from the evils of the internet, but some times their eager kills good use cases all the same. The “mixed content warning” that IE and Firefox throws when you reference a non-SSL asset from an SSL page is one of those cases. The problem is that browsers don’t like caching SSL content. So when you have an image or a style sheet on SSL, it’ll generally only be ...- terry said: If you click through and read the comments, lots of commenters provide good reasons for this warning. Up until reading those, I thought it was just bullshit from the browser. Turns out it's pretty important. MITM ftl.
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Ta-da List on Rails 2.2, Passenger And EC2 (12)
onTa-da List just moved to three exciting platforms: Rails 2.2, Phusion Passenger, Amazon EC2. This is an important milestone for 37signals. As proponents of simplicity, we really felt the difference the latter two technologies made for server provisioning and deployment. As we grow more comfortable with these services, we’ll be moving other applications this way and writing more about the results. Phusion Passenger After we comissioned Phusion to add global queueing to Passenger, we felt ...Shared by Alex (7) Glenn Batuyong (2) iBspoof (0) Marston Alfred (0) Matthew Bischoff (0) Michael (8) Nicolas Lehuen (0) Rebecca (0) redeye (0) RomanZolotarev (0) stevenvanwel (0) terry (5)
- Glenn Batuyong said: "...Ta-da List just moved to three exciting platforms: Rails 2.2, Phusion Passenger, Amazon EC2."
- Rebecca said: For my boys who, you know, do stuff with EC2.
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AwesomeWM (3)
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I've used a lot of window managers and desktop environments over the years (Gnome, KDE, Window Maker, Blackbox, Fluxbox, Enlightenment, XFCE, etc...). The last few years, I've lost a lot of motivation to experiment and stuck with the OS default (Gnome/Metacity in my case). Recently though, I've been increasingly trying to avoid ever touching the mouse. This is partially due to wrist issues and partially just to try and be more efficient. The quest for ...Contribute comment -
I Don’t Acknowledge Your Marriage (7)
onTom Ackerman at Religious Dispatches no longer recognizes marriage: Yesterday I called a woman’s spouse her boyfriend. She says, correcting me, “He’s my husband,” “Oh,” I say, “I no longer recognize marriage.” The impact is obvious. I tried it on a man who has been in a relationship for years, “How’s your longtime companion, Jill?” “She’s my wife!” “Yeah, well, my beliefs don’t recognize marriage.” Fun. And instant, eyebrow-raising recognition. Suddenly the majority gets to ...Shared by Bob Goyetche (0) jborneman (17) jmilles (4) Psythor (0) terry (5) Thomas (0) ubernerd83 (5)Contribute comment
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Odontochelys, a transitional turtle (2)
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Now this is an interesting beast. It's a 220 million year old fossil from China of an animal that is distinctly turtle-like. Here's a look at its dorsal side: a, Skeleton in dorsal view. b, Skull in dorsal view. c, Skull in ventral view. d, Body in dorsal view. Teeth on the upper jaw and palatal elements were scratched out during excavation. Abbreviations: ar, articular; as, astragalus; ca, calcaneum; d, dentary; dep, dorsal process of ...Shared by David Tapper (0) terry (5)Contribute comment -
Little Axe, Oklahoma (3)
onAmericans United has put up a story of religious discrimination from its files. Two women had a little problem with institutionalized religiosity in an Oklahoma public school district. In 1981, Bell had just moved to Little Axe and enrolled her children in the local public school system. At that time, school officials were allowing a teacher-sponsored student group called the Son Shine Club to gather before school to pray. Though the fundamentalist Baptist meetings were ...Contribute comment
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7 wonders of the modern world. (113)
onShared by ab_aditya (0) alin andrei (0) Allen Sentance (7) Allen Sentance (10) Amitav (1) AmyVernon (88) andrew (1) ani625 (7) Arachne Jericho (0) Arren V (28) BasikX (0) Ben (0) Ben May (3) Binh An Nguyen (25) Bobby (3) Brent the Closet Geek (9) Brian (13) Brian (1) Brian Edelen (2) Calle (1) Chetan Thaker (13) Chris (1) Chris Craft (2) Chris Roat (0) ChrisLeonard (4) Christopher (0) Chung (6) Citizen K (1) Collin Banko (4) Dan (0) Daniel (59) Daniel (3) Dave (1) digits12 (0) Elliot Michaelson (1) Eric Bangerter (0) Feed Fanatic (2) Fernando Johann (1) flo (3) foolarch (2) Friar-Zero (1) Gonzalo Jimenez (7) Gregory Devine (0) guy (36) HeatherDulin (0) Huw (0) Immortalpear (3) Jack Lail (0) James Lowery (0) Jan (0) Jared Tong (0) Jason (0) Jeff (36) Jenner (2) Jim English (0) Josh Bowman (5) Josh Kaplan (0) Julio H. Morimoto (4) Justin LL. (0) Justin Younger (1) kamandal (73) Karl Mathias Moberg (2) Kaye (0) kcxlife.net (20) Keri (0) Kevin Dixie (0) KincaidKMF (0) Kirk (0) Kris (0) Lee (3) Leena (85) lovemorgul (69) Luke G (0) Manas Tungare (0) Mark (0) Mark Dunne (0) Matthew (2) Matthew Bischoff (0) Matthew Dewey (1) Mike Fruchter (46) Mike T (1) Mr. BabyMan (23) Natitude (25) Neil (0) nervioso (0) Nick (14) Pedro Valente (0) Pozsi (0) Pramod (2) Ramkumar R. Aiyengar (0) Raymond (0) Rene Rattur (0) Ritu (10) Roberto Ruiz (3) rony john (11) ryankenward (0) Sean Rasmussen (4) serrynaimo (0) Shiri Perciger Cohen (0) StitzL (1) stvalentine (7) Tal Siach (23) terry (5) Than R (0) Tidus (0) Tim (0) Tom Briones (0) tonyleachsf (0) Trevor Wermund (20) Victor Barrera (78) Yatin Vadhia (26) ydant (7) Z'HuNG Lee (6)Explore read five notes
- Jan said: One of her best ever
- ani625 said: DF ..
- Manas Tungare said: My nomination for Best of Indexed!
- Raymond said: the coolest indexed thusfar.
- Fernando Johann said: Ese poder de síntesis, con razón me gusta tanto este blog
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Canada? Do we need to remind you about how screwed up the US is? (3)
onYou seem to be going down a similar path — expertise is downplayed, any fool can do the job of government, irrationality is promoted to equal footing with reason. It's worrisome. Didn't your mother ever ask you whether you'd follow if your friends jumped off a cliff? Well, we're clinging desperately to the edge of that cliff, and you seem awfully anxious to join us. Take the case of Gary Goodyear. He's a chiropractor and ...Contribute comment
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Let's put the cartoonists in charge! (5)
onThe US is too dependent on cars and oil, and the automobile companies have been total failures at addressing the needs of the country…which is why they're now looking for bailouts. So I have to say I thought Keith Knight's solution is very appealing. After pointing out the incompetence of our automakers, he suggests… Yes! Rebuild the railroads and put together a national mass transit system! Now there's a public works project that would put ...Contribute comment
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Induced Current (242)
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- ani625 said: Mythbusters ftw!
- Bolsoman said: I mythbusters sono grandiosi!
- achal said: absolutely killer!
- Todd Eddy said: told ya it was solar flares
- Kunal said: "that was mean", but totally hilarious :)
- Gavin said: I'd pay to see mythbusters bust the lhc.
- wiktar said: Я тоже так частенько поступаю :)
- Dre said: LOL! Poor Mythbusters. I wonder how they will simulate this. Ha ha ha!
- Rohith said: @satya you bloody asses aren't the only people on my greader friend's list There's my thought :P
- Kraki said: brilliant!
- mjc said: Hahahahahaha
- haggaret said: Like Dave said - Awesome!
- andronin said: XKCD on keeping Mythbuster on TV
Contribute comment - Aliens? Yes. UFOs? No. (11)
