Ironwolf

I love surrealism. I’ve gone ahead an created a category for it here, and I’ll share favorite examples as I run across them.
I find it quite interesting that animation is a second career for Chris Landreth, who won Oscars for his animated shorts Bingo and Ryan. Here are those and his first short, The End, […]

Here is a fascinating video of some planets and stars, drawn to scale.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3974466981713172831

Reminiscent of Powers of Ten.

Cultic nutjobs House of Yahweh were in a bit of a spot when their chief prophet Yisrayl Hawkins predicted global nuclear war for September 12, 2006.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7uBxCEujIM

Oops…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2TMf6WRUlo

But Yahweh’s plan will not be denied, scoffers! That date was just the conception of the nuclear baby. (WTF?) The baby will “reach maturity” by June 12, 2007 and by […]

Recently in the comments of this post, blogger Althusius challenged me to explain my moral foundation. My initial response was to ask him a series of questions, to which he gave fairly typical fundamentalist Christian responses. In this post, I finally answer his question directly.
Althusius,
OK, I’ve heard enough. I’m ready to answer your question: “By […]

These are two classic experiments in human behavior that everyone should learn about. As children we learn to do (and believe) as we’re told. But to become mature adults, we need to learn to recognize, survive, and constructively reform situations susceptible to rankism and learned helplessness.
The Milgram Obedience Experiment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBuWSrdOlfM

7 minutes
One of Stanley Milgram’s basic contributions […]

UPDATE 11/5/07! Gosh, I could have sworn that Ahmad Nishitoba had said it was November 19, but now the date is November 9, 2007! That’s this Friday, folks, so make sure you’ve got plenty of bottled water on hand… or something in a bottle, anyway.
UPDATE 1/24/07! God had his calendar full on January 19, 2007 […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbQhzz_RWNE

Bad lawyers! Their Love Contract left out the part about what they agree to do in the event of unwanted pregnancy and STDs. But then, this is fantasy after all— those things are no doubt covered in the boilerplate.

Just ran across this fairly funny religious parody: Mr. Deity. Four episodes currently available on their web site, with promises of more to come. I think self-produced sitcoms with potentially wide influence are a perfect example of why Time Magazine decided that the Person of the Year is You.
Episode 1: Mr. Deity and the Evil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzf8q9QHfhI

There […]

Free association is fun!
High quality QuickTime version here.
Le Grand Content examines the omnipresent Powerpoint-culture in search for its philosophical potential. Intersections and diagrams are assembled to form a grand ‘association-chain-massacre’. which challenges itself to answer all questions of the universe and some more. Of course, it totally fails this assignment, but in its failure it […]

This 3-minute talk is from the 2005 TED conference. A Flash summary of the principles he discusses can be found here.
Click image to play video.

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