Archive for August, 2007

Impressive Image Resizing

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Coming soon to a Photoshop plug-in near you!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIFCV2spKtg

Photos from Burning Man 2007

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

I’m off to the playa! I hope to post a few photos from there. If I can, you’ll see them magically appear in the slide show below. There is also an RSS feed here.

My Flickr Photos

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

I’ve started a personal Flickr photo stream here. You can subscribe to the RSS feed here.

The One Ring

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

I had a couple requests for t-shirts of the Circular Reasoning design I posted recently, so here it is in my CafePress shop. Available in a sinister selection of dark colors.

One ring to rule them all,
One ring to find them,
One ring to bring them all,
And in the darkness bind them…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
 

Richard Dawkins: The Enemies of Reason, Part 2

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

Last week I posted about Part 1 here.
This is Part 2, 48 minutes long.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4720837385783230047

Getting the Story, Losing the Faith

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

I’ve been a fan of ex-preacher Dan Barker’s book Losing Faith in Faith for a long time now, and have distantly followed the activities of the state-church separation group Freedom from Religion Foundation of which he is co-President along with his 3rd-generation freethinker wife Annie Laurie Gaylor. Recently I discovered that they have been hosting […]

Friends Church Sign of the Week

Monday, August 20th, 2007

Number 5 in a series.

You can’t walk with God and hold hands with Satan.
Translation: Having trouble snuffing out your last spark of self-determination? Let us help!
“The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the […]

Nice Photo

Friday, August 17th, 2007

Me at the baby naming of Kevin’s daughter Sadelle in San Francisco. Photo by Quinn. More photos here.

Richard Dawkins: The Enemies of Reason, Part 1

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

From the description of the video:
In his last Channel 4 series, Root of All Evil?, the evolutionary biologist Professor Richard Dawkins explored how organised faith and primitive religious values blight our lives.
But the fault line runs deeper even than religion. There are two ways of looking at the world – through faith and superstition […]

Anonymous Never Forgets

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

A few days ago the Los Angeles Fox News affiliate ran this Fair and Balanced piece of scare fluff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNO6G4ApJQY

Personally, I found it to be full of epic lulz— especially the gratuitously exploding truck. Twice.
Truly, the acidically-removed fingerprints of Anonymous are everywhere!

So to celebrate the rising Internet Hate Machine that is Anonymous… a money-grubbing t-shirt! Available […]