It's Not Just Christians Who Daydream About the Rapture

Just Say Takei

A bigoted bill in Tennessee? WHAT!?!?  Can I get a fact check on this?



It's sad to think that my future 3rd wife could be in one of those elementary school classrooms as we speak . . .

The Rapture is Tomorrow

Just came across this; only one day left to give all of your money to the poor.



Way to go NonStampCollector, couldn't have said it better myself.

Hot Cross Buns Are Here "For a Limited Time, Just Like Jesus"

God I wish that was my line.  New Zealand based Hell Pizza company has ruffled a few ecclesiastical feathers lately with their new billboard campaign for their Easter hot cross buns.  The billboards place the phrase "For a limited time, just like Jesus" beneath a picture of the buns.  

Not surprisingly, the ad has upset one or two devout Kiwis, but Hell Pizza director, and my new hero, Warren Powell responded saying that he "doesn't see how it could possibly be disrespectful to anyones religion.  First of all, we're acknowledging that Jesus Christ may have been on Earth for a limited time [and] We may bring them back next year, and everyone's saying that Jesus Christ is coming back one day.”  Since there is nothing I could possibly say to top him, I'll leave it at that.

Thanks to iol news for the story.

Happy Birthday Christopher Hitchens

If you have ever read this blog before, you know how I feel about the Hitch.  Happy birthday to maybe the greatest mind of a generation, may there be many more.

Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot (Animated)

Luke Muehlhauser just posted this at Common Sense Atheism, and I had to pass it along:

The Greatest Skeptical Cartoon Beat Poem of All Time (Tim Minchin's Storm)

Some of the Best April Fools Jokes So Far

Google is always on top of it.  Check out some of their offerings for this year:

http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/uslocations/mountain-view/autocompleter/index.html Finally, a job option for the high speed clairvoyant.

http://www.google.com/landing/csfe/  Do you really love comic sans?  Google has the research to back you up.

Want an App that lets you grunt and squeak and squawk with the animals?

Linkedin is offering to connect you with dead celebrities, just in case you haven't seen Hemingway since high school.

Hulu.com is offering it's customers a 1996 version of their menu page (just click anywhere on the page to get "back to the future").

Youtube is featuring the best in "1911 viral videos"

thinkgeek has created the Apple Store Playset, so that kids and adults alike can enjoy the experience of being talked down to by hipsters at the genius bar.  Along with items like wireless extension cables, I recommend checking them out today.

Metro.co.uk Has unearthed an animal new to science (to the delights of 12 year old girls everywhere)

And, last but not least UVP is resurrecting the RickRoll with a Kevin Smith created muppets video.

Enjoy the greatest holiday of them all folks; I'm off to call the parents and tell them that because of a recent one night stand they are going to be grandparents.

New Muppets Bloopers Video

So, I'm really late with this, but still a great day for a muppets video:

Extended Dr Who Trailer for 2011 Trip to America

Swear to Thor, this is the last Who trailer for a while.  I'm just drooling for a season with Stephen Moffat as head writer =)



The collected power of the upcoming Easter nerdgasm could power a small city.

First Full Length Trailer for New Dr Who 2011!

Did anyone else catch the last Doctor's TARDIS at 37 seconds? Go to the YouTube comment boards for wild speculation on that =)

And BTW finally beat the Nerdist to the punch!  Thx AJHorseGirl

Flying Robots Learn to Juggle

Scientists teaching robots how to play sports . . . talk about the blind leading the blind.

Record Companies Sue for the GDP of the World

It's no secret that record companies have fallen on hard times as of late.  Sites like Pirate Bay and ISO Hunt are becoming more popular every day, siphoning off greater and greater percentages of an already dwindling income stream.  At the same time, it's slowly dawning on any artist creative enough to do something new or interesting that Pro Tools isn't going to want to recoup expenses.  Combine that all with an industry wide cocaine problem that it couldn't kick from the Mötley Crüe days and it's a recipe for disaster.  Maybe it was these factors that slowly drove execs at thirteen different record companies completely insane.

A mere two years after the popular file sharing program had any relevance, thirteen different record companies have elected to sue Limewire for 75 trillion dollars.  Yes, that is trillion with a "T," 17 trillion more than the estimated GDP of the world.  That's right, in Batman Villainesque fashion, they want all the money in the world.  Said one exec "Our initial suit was for eleventy-kajillion dollars until I was informed that eleventy-kajillion isn't actually a number."

The judge in the case, Kimba Wood (a name that should only be said by James Earl Jones as an animated lion) has already called the request "absurd."

While it's easy to think of the suit as silly or ridiculous, the record companies have based the amount of their claim on an interpretation of Section 504(c)(1) of the Copyright Act which provides for damages in any case where two or more parties are involved.  If one extrapolates the fine for each case to the thousands of users trading millions of files on programs like Limewire, the number is still silly and ridiculous.

Happy Birthday Richard Dawkins!

According to Pharyngula, today is Richard Dawkins' seventieth birthday, and since I'm not one for checking facts I'm going to assume P.Z. is right.

Happy Birthday Dawkins!



Damn gutsy for an atheist to give a speech in Virginia, much less a town named "Lynchburg"

WTF, OMG is now a word . . . LOL, I Heart the Oxford English Dictionary

According to a CNN article, The Oxford English Dictionary, one of the world standards in determining English language usage, has recognized a few new words, and you are going to <3 all of them.

From now on, aside from being an excellent way to tell if girls at a party are too young for you, the words LOL and OMG are going to be included in the Oxford English Dictionary.  Surprisingly, this won't be the first time that teenage girls have been the inspiration for new words;  Modern research suggests Shakespeare had them on his mind when he coined the words "arouse," "obscene," and "bedroom," but scholars still debate the specifics.

In addition to the newcomers, FYI has made the cut, a mere twenty years after everyone but your aunt who sends you the YouTube videos of kittens stopped using it.

Last but not least, the word "heart" will have a new sanctioned usage as a verb; as in, "I heart nonsense like this" or "I heart it when they make it so easy."

Sure, some people are going to rail against this, and others are going to love it; me personally, I'm in the middle.  But mark my words, if "friending" ever gets the go ahead, I'm taking my ball and going home, and I'll see my loyal readers on my new Spanish Language blog "Proyecto Sin Titulo Vanidad"

Dr. Who Prequel to the "Impossible Astronaut"

Need I say more?



I swear someone at the Nerdist has an inside connection at the BBC, they always beat me to the punch on these.

Into Dudes? . . . There's an App for That

Thank God he's not gay anymore!
Or should that be Xenu

I'm so embarrassed about that joke, mainly because 200,000 other bloggers are going to make the exact same one, but how could I not.

According to Slashdot, Apple has greenlit an app by Exodus International designed to help gay individuals become heterosexual.  Apple considers the app to have "no objectionable material," giving it a four rating.  So far, there is no report on how the app actually works, but I strongly suspect that it allows your Iphone to emit a small electrical shock whenever an attractive male walks by.  Said a spokesman for Exodus International, "we are choosing to focus our efforts on the male gay populations because lesbians, while still sinners, are much much hotter than their male counterparts."

A petition has been launched by Truth Wins Out asking Steve Jobs to remove the app immediately.

***UPDATE***

Apple has removed the app.  Now, IMHO this is a less than ideal outcome.  I prefer people not to be censored, so I would have liked the rating changed on the app, but since I figured that was unlikely, I supported the petition to have it removed.  It's almost impossible to strike a reasonable middle ground.

Super Perigee Moon

Sorry about the late notice on this one, but if you get a chance to check it out, tonight is a super perigee moon.

I'll let the monotone voice over guy explain:

New Dr Who Short!

A short for Red Nose Day Enjoy!





Two Amys!!!  Clearly Stephen Moffat has been getting my letters!

Feel Like Your Real Estate Agent Isn't "Pro-Rape" Enough For You?

I don't even know what to say to this . . . nothing like a little bit of rape to spice up an ad for high end condos, that's just business school 101



At least they maintained the horrified look in her eye right up until the end . . .