Nathan
links for 2010-08-26
Every Doctor Who villain since 1963 A data set containing every doctor who villain. The geekyness is awe inspiring. (tags: doctor_who vast_amounts_of_useless_data) Doctor Who: Every single journey through time A huge data set on doctor who journeys. (tags: doctor_who vast_amounts_of_useless_data)
links for 2010-08-19
Faith and Reason The best argument I've ever seen for god's existence.
links for 2010-08-17
Hacker arrested for octopus virus I'll let this one speak for itself Disease by coincidence – why we’re caught in the crossfire of a hidden war (tags: medicine disease)
links for 2010-08-14
The AFTAH Anti-Gay-Rights Academy: From the Perspective of Two Who Attended, Day 1 of 3 A couple of atheists visited the Anti-Gay-Rights academy and took notes. It's an interesting read, if only to find out what the other side's arguments actually are. [found via Pharyngula] (tags: atheism gay_rights)
links for 2010-08-13
Geek Mind A quiz game to see if you can identify video games from screenshots and cover shots. I'm awful at it, but it's still really fun. (tags: videogames quiz)
Science as Faith
I was listening to an episode of the Geologic Podcast today, and on it George Hrab used the recent news about Triceratops1 to launch into a rant about how science and faith are different. TRICERATOPS AND TOROSAURUS: SAME DINOSAUR, http://news.discovery.com/dinosaurs/triceratops-and-torosaurus-same-dinosaur.html [↩]
Militant Atheism
I went to GenCon over the weekend (there will probably be more on that later), and afterward a bunch of people got together to go to lunch/dinner. We were sitting around the table when the subject of Militant Atheism came up. I said that I didn’t really think that the “Militant Atheists” were militant, and [...]
links for 2010-06-01
Category:漢字 部首 – ウィクショナリー日本語版 (tags: japanese radicals) 部首 – Wikipedia (tags: japanese radicals) Free Online Game – Robot Unicorn Attack from Adult Swim (tags: flash game) Illustrator: Abstract Vector Art (tags: smashing_magazine vector illustrator) Translation Party (tags: translation) Newest 'flex' Questions – Stack Overflow (tags: flex programming actionscript stack_overflow)
links for 2010-05-31
Simpson’s Paradoxical Card Trick | Curving Normality "ResearchBlogging.org Imagine this card trick. A statistician divides a regular deck of cards into two sets: one of 20 and one of 32 cards. Next, he urges two groups of students to investigate the cards, and hands out one set of cards to each of the groups. Both [...]
links for 2010-05-30
Epiphenom: Protestants tempt fate, but atheists don't! "Apparently, some people think that talking or merely thinking about an event can actually bring it about. To me, that's incomprehensible. When I was young, I assumed that the concept of 'tempting fate' was a poetic metaphor. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that some people take it [...]
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