My Hero Zero
Three is a Magic Number
• Elementary, My Dear (2s)
• The Four-Legged Zoo
• Ready or Not, Here I Come (5s)
• I Got Six
• Lucky Seven Sampson
• Figure Eight
• Naughty Number Nine
• The Good Eleven
• Little Twelvetoes
• Elementary, My Dear (2s)
• The Four-Legged Zoo
• Ready or Not, Here I Come (5s)
• I Got Six
• Lucky Seven Sampson
• Figure Eight
• Naughty Number Nine
• The Good Eleven
• Little Twelvetoes
With all the people doing inane, attention-whoring video blogs on YouTube, it’s nice to run across some grey bloke named Graham who is just being himself. In this first posting, he explains his thinking on getting fit.
But lately, Graham has been feeling his age and has become somewhat preoccupied about religion.
I thought this last video was particularly thought provoking, so I read some of the comments. One YouTuber said:
Its as simple as this..
You are drowning in the water.. Jesus is on a rescue mission . HE gives you HIS hand .. And If you are not accepting it . You will drown.
To which Graham replied:
That does sound simple.
Why am I in the water?
What is this weird food fetish creationists have? The following are actual creationist videos that attempt to argue for the existence of God from food.
• The modern banana was created by selective breeding and can no longer even reproduce without human help.
• Proposing that the theory of evolution predicts that new life may spontaneously arise in peanut butter shows an utter lack of understanding of evolution …and all science, for that matter.
• Apophenia is a common and well-understood psychological phenomenon.
• Odd how they start by saying that “whole foods” resemble bodily organs, and then their first example is sliced carrots. Hmm… whole carrots look like…
• Neither bones nor celery are 23% sodium.
• Funny how they mention “mammary glands” but don’t say what they think citrus does to them… perhaps I should lay off the oranges.
Update! July 20, 2008
• OK, so this isn’t so much an argument as it is a metaphor, but it is a hilarious misappropriation of a classic science classroom demonstration.
• I love how his pickle only lights up on one end— I’ll leave you to ponder which end this would represent in real, live Christians, many of whom clearly have a bad case of pickle envy.
• Come on down! The Host Barn is serving their signature sandwiches— now with an electrocuted pickle on the side! Mmm… snackreligious.
• ”The pickle that burns twice as bright, burns only half as long.”
Machinima is using game graphics engine technology to create cinematic experiences. One popular application of Machinima techniques is to make music videos.
(Some of the lyrics may be NSFW, depending on where you W.)
Song by Jonathan Coulton.
Song from the off-Broadway play Avenue Q. To see the original stage performance click here.
Another great song from Coulton.
xkcd this week tells a remarkable tale of science gone horribly wrong.
The only thing that could make this tale more horrifying is… you guessed it! Poetry from The Digital Cuttlefish.
Genetically, of course, a spork
Is half a spoon, and half a fork
A laboratory in New York
Created them, then popped the cork.
Please, gentle reader, do not swoon,
But there was also, once, a foon
(That’s half a fork, and half a spoon)
Created, sadly, all too soon.
In cutlery, one tempts the Fates
When artificially, one mates
Utensils from across the plates
Regardless of recessive traits.
A careless thought: “let’s cross F-1
Again with forks, and have some fun.”
The simple plan was soon begun,
Then all too soon: “What have we done?”
With thirst for blood and killing drives
Such meddling ends in loss of lives
I only hope someone survives
To tell—the sporks have found the knives!
Thomas Kuebler creates life-size sculpture guaranteed to make you do a double-take. See an extensive gallery of his work at his web site.
Below: Cletus & Shorty Play Banjo
