Ironwolf

Nerdcore: hip hop by nerds, for nerds.
Several of the songs below are NSFW.
Schaffer the Darklord — The Rappist
Hi-res QuickTime version here.
MC Hawking — Fuck the Creationists
[Site]
MC Hawking — What We Need More Of Is Science
MC Frontalot — Bizarro Genius Baby
[Lyrics]
MC Frontalot — It Is Pitch Dark
A treat for fansaddicts of the old Infocom text [...]

This special two-hour episode of the PBS series NOVA takes on the 2005 Intelligent Design trial Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, revealing the human drama and hard science that went into the precedent-setting trial. You can watch it in 10-minute YouTube bites below, or in nice neat QuickTime chapters at the episode’s official web [...]

I’ve seen tesla coils live at Burning Man numerous times— they’re incredibly loud.
Quoth Doc Brown: “If we could somehow harness this lightning, channel it into the flux capacitor, it just might work…”
Introducing the Zeusaphone.
A Zeusaphone Mario Bros. duet…
Dr. Zeus playing with the Zeusaphones. Or are they playing with him? Or does the water get him [...]

Click the image for a larger version. Inspired by another infamous viral image…

Here is a quite funny viral video in the style of The Daily Show that pretty much sums up the view of the Writers Guild of America. Excellent cameo by John Oliver.
via United Hollywood via Brian Flemming.

Last weekend I went to a conference where some had brought an XBox 360 with the first-person puzzle game Portal. I got to see it played all the way though, and I still want to play it myself, which is saying something. The end of the game had a wonderful surprise as the credits roll: [...]

Ron Weinland appears to be cut from the same cloth as the same false prophet I grew up under: Herbert W. Armstrong. I’m laying 99.99% odds that he’s just as false.
Here are the pivotal claims given on the last page of his freely-downloadable book, 2008 — God’s Final Witness:

By the fall of 2008, the United [...]

Update November 12, 2007: Looks like God was busy… again, so the Quake of America has been rescheduled for November 9, 2008 at exactly 11:09 AM! At least he picked a more civil hour of the day. Oh, well, see you next year…
Ahmad Nishitoba, who I wrote about first here and then here, has failed [...]

Yes, we homeschool our kids. No, we’re not doing it for religious reasons. Yes, they get to pretty much decide what to learn. No, we don’t think it’s going to harm them, we think it’s a better choice for us. Yes, it’s legal.
*sigh*
From the brand new Secular Homeschooling magazine, I present The Bitter Homeschooler’s Wish [...]

Whether or not you’ve read The God Delusion, this presentation by Richard Dawkins at the recent Atheist Alliance conference is worth the time, particularly in that he answers the most common criticisms of both his book and the “New Atheists” in general.
Part 1 (Main Presentation)
Part 2 (Q&A)