Why Washington needs Joe Biden Alex Seitz-Wald, writing at Salon.com: Regardless of whether you agree with him [Biden] or not, or if history has proven him right or wrong, he is one of the few figures in the most senior echelon of foreign policy thinking in Washington willing to give voice to unpopular views on […]
Sarah Sharp’s COUCHES OF DETROIT at/via Warren Ellis: I am in the process of creating a calendar of 12 Detroit landscapes, each featuring a discarded or abandoned couch. To you, it may signify the apocalyptic tidings of an empty city, but for some people, Detroit allows a great deal of freedom for reinvention. Municipal services […]
CoffeeScript Another one via @fogus… (tagged: javascript programming language todo ) The Best Ruby Books via @fogus (tagged: programming Ruby books resources todo ) YUI Doc A New Tool for Generating JavaScript API Documentation » Yahoo! User Interface Blog (at YUIBlog) (tagged: javascript yui documentation tools generator todo ) Why I’m An Atheist A Holiday […]
Irish atheists challenge blasphemy law at BBC News: "This new law is both silly and dangerous," he said. "It is silly because medieval religious laws have no place in a modern secular republic, where the criminal law should protect people and not ideas." (tagged: atheism Ireland news ) 10 Easy Ways to Green Your Web […]
15 Things Worth Knowing About Coffee at The Oatmeal — I love this design. (tagged: coffee design visualization ) Fox News Fact-Checks Sarah Palin’s Coin Conspiracy Theory (VIDEO) short version: "Sarah Palin is too crazy even for the crazy network." Personally I'd like it if "In God We Trust" came off the money all together […]
Edge 204 via Beyond the Beyond (tags: atheism essay todo) The Page Paradigm via Daring Fireball: “the page paradigm” and a treatise on user interaction with sites (tags: essay design webdev usability ui work todo)
No Atheists (Still) Need Apply Susan Jacoby’s “On Faith” column for WaPo. Good, compelling read. (tags: atheism politics essay history)
False 45th (tags: Vermont blog music) Charlie’s Diary Blog of author Charlie Stross (tags: blog writing scifi future fiction politics) The Brights’ Net (tags: atheism politics secularism science) Wired 14.11: The Church of the Non-Believers (tags: essay atheism science politics todo) Wired 14.11: Very Short Stories Six-word short stories from sci-fi authors, futurists, etc. Some […]
OK, I admit it, this is a blatant B^2 rip but imitation is the highest form of flattery and (let’s face it) this is the choicest quote in the Salon article: SALON: What do you do with consciousness? I mean, do you really think the mind is totally reducible to neural networks and the electro-chemical […]