Climate Change: Evidence

http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence


---Steve

The nuns' Obamacare contraception lawsuit isn't about religious freedom | Jill Filipovic

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/03/obamacare-contraception-lawsuit-religious-freedom


---Steve

Dog “pack” caused death of Tom Vick | leightonblog

http://leightonblog.com/2014/01/02/dog-pack-not-just-boxer-caused-death-of-tom-vick/


---Steve

20140102_wealth9.jpg 1,636×1,726 pixels

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2014/01/20140102_wealth9.jpg

On David Gelernter’s rant | The Heretical Philosopher

http://nwrickert.wordpress.com/2014/01/02/on-david-gelernters-rant/

On subjectivity

This is the part I find most puzzling.

Subjectivity is your private experience of the world: your sensations; your mental life and inner landscape; your experiences of sweet and bitter, blue and gold, soft and hard; your beliefs, plans, pains, hopes, fears, theories, imagined vacation trips and gardens and girlfriends and Ferraris, your sense of right and wrong, good and evil. This is your subjective world. It is just as real as the objective physical world.

I wonder what it could even mean to say that a person's subjective world is real.  Calling it "real" seems like an attempt to pseudo-objectify it.  And once you attempt to objectify it, you are on the path to declaring that it doesn't exist.

If Gelernter wants to value the subjective, then he should avoid talk of subjective states, since such state talk is but another attempt to pseudo-objectify the subjective.  Yet Gelernter wants to insist on giving mental states an important place.  I doubt that he has thought this through.

---Steve

Recursivity: David Gelernter, Hypocrite

http://recursed.blogspot.com/2014/01/david-gelernter-hypocrite.html

The whiny and porcine David Gelernter is back again, with an astonishingly un-self-aware screed entitled "The Closing of the Scientific Mind". For Gelernter, who despises atheists and thinks they are "crusading" and "dangerous", a closed mind means one that disagrees with him, or, worse, laughs at his incoherent religious ideas about the brain.

---Steve

Intel CEO hints at wearable plans for CES

http://www.engadget.com/2014/01/02/intel-ceo-hints-at-wearable-plans-for-CES/


---Steve

« The Closing of the Scientific Mind Commentary Magazine

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/the-closing-of-the-scientific-mind/


---Steve

Brian Krzanich on Why He Pulled the Plug on Intel’s TV Dreams | Re/code

http://recode.net/2014/01/02/brian-krzanich-on-why-he-pulled-the-plug-on-intels-tv-dreams/

Brian Krzanich on Why He Pulled the Plug on Intel's TV Dreams

Andrea Crisante / Shutterstock

Last February, Intel announced it was getting into the Web TV business. Now it is trying to get out by selling off its Intel Media unit to Verizon.

What happened?

The short version is that Brian Krzanich became Intel's CEO, and immediately became skeptical of the project's chances.

Krzanich wouldn't comment specifically on the Verizon talks (neither company has formally acknowledged the deal, which sources say should be announced soon). But he was happy to talk about the reason why the technology company is getting out of the media business so quickly. Basically, Intel had good technology, but good technology without content means little in the media business.

"When you go and play with the content guys, it's all about volume. And we come at it with no background, no experience, no volume," he said as part of a wide-ranging interview with Re/code.

If you want the long version, here are his full comments on the topic:

It's actually a very good product, if you take a look at the hardware and the technology. We've said pretty repeatedly that the technology is quite good. I could get into the "hows" but it really does have a great user interface. This concept of having three days of everything that is on TV at your instantaneous access is really unique.

But at the end of the day, just like when you go home and watch TV, it's all about content.

You could have the biggest screen, you could have the clearest screen. But if there is not great content on this thing, that big-screen TV is not a huge value to you, even though it has the best picture on the planet.

This device has the same set of issues. It is a great device and has great technology, but at the end of the day it's about the content you get on there.

When you go and play with the content guys, it's all about volume. And we come at it with no background, no experience, no volume. We were ramping from virtually zero and so what we've said is we are out looking for a partner that can help us scale that volume at a much quicker rate.

For more from Brian Krzanich, here's the rest of the interview.

Krzanich will be among the speakers at our inaugural Code Conference, May 27-29 in Palos Verdes. For details on the event, including registration info, please visit our events page.

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---Steve

Article: The 7-Word Autobiographies of Famous Writers, Artists, Musicians, and Philosophers

The 7-Word Autobiographies of Famous Writers, Artists, Musicians, and Philosophers
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/07/11/nypl-live-holdengraber-7-word-bios/

Shared from Maria Popova on Flipboard. Download Flipboard for free here.

---Steve

Dear Donald Trump: Winter Does Not Disprove Global Warming | Mother Jones

http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2014/01/blizzards-dont-refute-global-warming


---Steve

50 Things We Know Now (We Didn’t Know This Time Last Year)

http://tbo.com/ap/technology/50-things-we-know-now-we-didnt-know-this-time-last-year-20131229/


---Steve

6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person | Cracked.com

http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-you-better-person/

point is that the difference in those two attitudes -- bitter vs. motivated -- largely determines whether or not you'll succeed in the world.

Read more: http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-you-better-person/#ixzz2pHsBD0bz
---Steve

The Detox Scam: How to spot it, and how to avoid it « Science-Based Medicine

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-detox-scam-how-to-spot-it-and-how-to-avoid-it/#more-29723


---Steve

A secret to unlocking happiness? Practice gratitude. – The Synaptic Scoop

http://synapticscoop.com/2014/01/01/the-secret-to-unlocking-happiness-practice-gratitude/


---Steve

We know where you live - World - smh.com.au

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/we-know-where-you-live/2006/01/13/1137118970193.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2


---Steve

The Best iOS And Android Apps Of 2013 | TechCrunch

http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/31/the-best-ios-and-android-apps-of-2013/


---Steve

Chart of the greatest and most remarkable achievement in human history, and one you probably never heard about | AEIdeas

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/12/chart-of-the-greatest-and-most-remarkable-achievement-in-human-history-and-one-you-probably-never-heard-about/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmmMP+%28CARPE+DIEM%29#mbl


---Steve

Pew study on acceptance of evolution

http://www.pewforum.org/2013/12/30/publics-views-on-human-evolution/

"A majority of white evangelical Protestants (64%) and half of black Protestants (50%) say that humans have existed in their present form since the beginning of time."

Probably the same people that think animal slaughtering religious pedophiles like Phil Robertson make entertaining TV.

Being an ignorant cracker like Phil is a sin and a affront to human dignity. May he rot for the rest of his unnatural life in a Louisiana jail getting butt-fucked by his black guards. But, remember, I don't hate him -- only his sin

---Steve

Asshole of the year

It is official:
@TheDailyEdge: In 2014, 5,400 poor Texans will die because of Rick Perry, our choice for Asshole of the Year

http://assholeoftheday.us/post/71326173163/is-rick-perry-asshole-of-the-year



---Steve

Asshole Of The Day, Is Rick Perry Asshole of the Year?

http://assholeoftheday.us/post/71326173163/is-rick-perry-asshole-of-the-year


---Steve

Asshole Of The Day, Is Rick Perry Asshole of the Year?

http://assholeoftheday.us/post/71326173163/is-rick-perry-asshole-of-the-year


---Steve

Video parts 1 through 4 of Arithmetic, Population and Energy - a talk by Al Bartlett on the impossibility of exponential growth on a finite planet

http://www.albartlett.org/presentations/arithmetic_population_energy_video1.html


---Steve

Video parts 1 through 4 of Arithmetic, Population and Energy - a talk by Al Bartlett on the impossibility of exponential growth on a finite planet

http://www.albartlett.org/presentations/arithmetic_population_energy_video1.html


---Steve

The hobbit — an unexpected deficiency | Medical Journal of Australia

https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2013/199/11/hobbit-unexpected-deficiency


---Steve

What Percentage of Prisoners are Atheists? It’s a Lot Smaller Than We Ever Imagined

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/07/16/what-percentage-of-prisoners-are-atheists-its-a-lot-smaller-than-we-ever-imagined/


---Steve

Punk Rockers Knock Christmas

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3103675/posts

But there's another kind of Christmas denial: the kind that simply stomps on Christianity as ridiculous and kicks over the nativity set. Take the atheist punk band Bad Religion and its new record of Christmas songs they found "hilarious" to record.

Co-founder Brett Gurewitz told LA Weekly, "Clearly, it's a satire. We were rolling on the floor a lot of the time ... it felt like a Monty Python skit to me."

Greg Graffin, the other co-founder, is a part-time professor of biology and author of the book "Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God." This is Graffin in a nutshell: "Our faith should be expressed in working toward a better planet for our children and not the selfish, juvenile hope for a better afterlife for ourselves. I don't think anyone is going to Hell, because it only exists in the minds of people who wish ill will on others."

---SPSmith

Father on “attacking Christians”.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wwjtd/2013/12/father-on-attacking-christians/

First, most atheists do not attack Christians, but they often attack the idea of Christianity. I have to agree that attacking PEOPLE is wrong. However, once you bring an IDEA—such as Christianity— into the marketplace of ideas, it is subject to criticism just like any other idea, such as socialism, trickle down economics, or the theory of gravity.

---SPSmith

Not just the Koch brothers: New study reveals funders behind the climate change denial effort

http://phys.org/news/2013-12-koch-brothers-reveals-funders-climate.html

Powerful funders are supporting the campaign to deny scientific findings about global warming and raise public doubts about the roots and remedies of this massive global threat

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-12-koch-brothers-reveals-funders-climate.html#jCp

---SPSmith

Slate: Utah Judge “Agrees with Scalia,” Strikes Down Gay Marriage Ban

Pretty funny:  Scalia must be proud: Not many people can say they were integral in bringing about the end of anti-gay-marriage bans.

Utah Judge "Agrees with Scalia," Strikes Down Gay Marriage Ban
http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2013/12/20/utah_gay_marriage_judge_agrees_with_scalia_strikes_down_ban.html

---SPSmith

Company Reviews - Faith Driven Consumer

http://www.faithdrivenconsumer.com/reviews
Hmm, may have to buy Nike stuff again

---SPSmith

The Economist’s country of the year: Earth’s got talent | The Economist

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21591872-resilient-ireland-booming-south-sudan-tumultuous-turkey-our-country-year-earths-got?spc=scode&spv=xm&ah=9d7f7ab945510a56fa6d37c30b6f1709

we think, are path-breaking reforms that do not merely improve a single nation but, if emulated, might benefit the world. Gay marriage is one such border-crossing policy, which has increased the global sum of human happiness at no financial cost. Several countries have implemented it in 2013—including Uruguay, which also, uniquely, passed a law to legalise and regulate the production, sale and consumption of cannabis. This is a change so obviously sensible, squeezing out the crooks and allowing the authorities to concentrate on graver crimes, that no other country has made it. If others followed suit, and other narcotics were included, the damage such drugs wreak on the world would be drastically reduced.

---SPSmith

The Bible and homosexuality | What the Bible says about Homosexuality | Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry

http://carm.org/bible-homosexuality

But, believe it or not.  We Christians aren't judging them.  We are informing them.  God has declared that homosexuality is a sin.  It isn't our preferences we're declaring.  It is God's.  I know.  I know.  Some will say the Bible isn't true, that it is archaic, sexist, homophobic...blah, blah, blah.  I've heard it all before.  Kill the messanger and let's all jump into bed together and have our fun. Sorry, I'm not interested in freedom without responsibility and the resulting promiscuity and diseases that accompany the politically correct, sexual freedom of abberant liberal morality.  Instead, I'll follow my Lord who calls all to repentance (Acts 17:30), myself included.

---SPSmith

What Persecution Looks Like | Right Wing Watch

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/what-persecution-looks

Conservative activists were prepared to see Phil Robertson as a victim of religious persecution because they've been primed for years with the "religious liberty" narrative being pushed by Religious Right leaders and their conservative Catholic allies. They portray criticism as persecution. They equate being on the losing side of policy debates with being under the heel of oppression. And when courts and legislatures struggle with the challenge of balancing religious liberty with other constitutional values like equality under the law, they see only black-and-white battles between good and evil.

Their rhetoric cheapens and distorts the meaning of terms like tyranny. Anti-religious persecution is a violent, heartbreaking reality for Christians in many parts of the world. But not for the privileged and powerful figures in the United States who wrap themselves in the mantle of martyrdom.

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/what-persecution-looks#sthash.vScIOsLH.dpuf

---SPSmith

Phil Robertson's America - Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/12/phil-robertsons-america/282555/


---SPSmith

Companion Animal Psychology: Can Fatal Dog Attacks Be Prevented?

http://www.companionanimalpsychology.com/2013/12/can-fatal-dog-attacks-be-prevented.html
This research suggests that Breed Specific Legislation does not protect people from dog bite fatalities. At worst, it may even distract people (and financial resources) from the factors that do make a difference: close supervision of children and vulnerable adults, and good animal husbandry practices that involve the dog in family life. Given the prevalence of husbandry-related factors in these incidents, legislations should consider strengthening measures aimed at preventing cruelty and neglect and supporting responsible ownership. - See more at: http://www.companionanimalpsychology.com/2013/12/can-fatal-dog-attacks-be-prevented.html#sthash.928XuoWO.dpuf

---SPSmith

The Robertson Family Official Statement | Duck Commander

http://duckcommander.com/news/robertson-family-offical-statement
"We want you to know that first and foremost we are a family rooted in our faith in God and our belief that the Bible is His word."

If the family admits that they get their moral guidance from a superstition-filled book brimming with hate, bigotry, murder, and slavery then why are people surprised that the patriarch of this inbreed clan is a raging bigot?

The true shame here is that many Americans enjoy Duck Dynasty, a made-up "reality" TV show, where the writers have tried to glorify a sick nostalgia for the old days and down-home family values, including a business based on devices used to aid the slaughter of beautiful animals, and a cast of unsavory inbreed evangelical characters, each proud of their inability to think rationally and each espousing discredited and outdated Biblical doctrines for their ethics and morality.

9 questions you were too embarrassed to ask about ‘Duck Dynasty’

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/12/20/9-questions-you-were-too-embarrassed-to-ask-about-duck-dynasty/


---SPSmith

Duck Dynasty

Duck Dynasty, a made-up "reality" TV show, where the writers have tried to espouse a sick nostalgia for the old days and down-home family values, including a business based on the slaughter of beautiful animals, and a cast of unsavory inbreed characters, whose inability to think rationally or behave morally would doom a true business in the real world marketplace.

So why be surprised when the redneck scum and ridiculously bad actor that A&E hired for the show actually believes that the Old South values are to be admired? Yep, blacks were happy singing ni**ers before the government stepped in and freed them and gave them welfare. And retarded old white men, who like nothing more uplifting than munching down on some old hag's hairy pussy and then washing their mouths out with some homemade moonshine, are of course the ones chosen by an imaginary god to be better than everybody else.

---SPSmith

ARIZONA ATHEIST: Why I Do Not Support the Drone Wars: Why Drone Strikes Should Be Considered a Legal and Moral Outrage

http://arizonaatheist.blogspot.com/2013/06/why-i-do-not-support-drone-wars-why.html


---SPSmith

Slate: Mesmerizing Map Shows Which Way the World's Winds Are Blowing

I thought you would like this article from The Slate Magazine for iPad

Mesmerizing Map Shows Which Way the World's Winds Are Blowing
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/12/18/global_wind_map_cameron_baccario_s_visualization_of_world_weather_patterns.html

---SPSmith

Slate: The Best Jazz of 2013

I thought you would like this article from The Slate Magazine for iPad

The Best Jazz of 2013
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2013/12/the_best_jazz_albums_of_2013_as_selected_by_fred_kaplan.html

---SPSmith

FAQs - Civil Questions

http://www.gilbertaz.gov/code/faqcivil.cfm


---SPSmith

Legal Know-How: Taming the Neighbor’s Trees | Realtor Magazine

http://realtormag.realtor.org/sales-and-marketing/sales-coach/article/2005/12/legal-know-how-taming-neighbor-s-trees

• Clean up the debris. Clear away all of the leaves, sticks, and yard debris that come from the neighbors' trees. If the debris is on your property, the neighbors are not responsible for cleaning these up.

---SPSmith

The American Scholar: Where Are the People? - Jim Hinch

http://theamericanscholar.org/where-are-the-people/#.UrIMa3-9KSO


---SPSmith

BBC News - North Korea's way with extreme insults

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-25357021

Despicable human scum Jang, who was worse than a dog, perpetrated thrice-cursed acts of treachery in betrayal of such profound trust and warmest paternal love shown by the party and the leader for him," astatement by the agency said.

---SPSmith

Accidental Tax Break Saves Wealthiest Americans $100 Billion - Bloomberg

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-17/accidental-tax-break-saves-wealthiest-americans-100-billion.html


---SPSmith

Annals of Internal Medicine | Enough Is Enough: Stop Wasting Money on Vitamin and Mineral Supplements

http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1789253

Enough Is Enough: Stop Wasting Money on Vitamin and Mineral Supplements

---SPSmith

Slate: The Two Inequalities

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The Two Inequalities
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/12/17/capital_inequality_it_s_bigger_and_a_bigger_deal_than_labor_inequality.html

---SPSmith

Religion in America’s states and counties, in 6 maps

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/12/12/religion-in-americas-states-and-counties-in-6-maps/


---SPSmith

This is a modern Christmas, so eat, drink and forget about the poor and the needy - Comment - Voices - The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/this-is-a-modern-christmas-so-eat-drink-and-forget-about-the-poor-and-the-needy-9006181.html

Mariana Mazzucato, a professor of economics and innovation at Sussex University has just published a vital, incontestable new book, The Entrepreneurial State, debunking private vs public sector myths. She makes the case for a bigger and smarter state which would benefit everyone, including governments and business. I fear we will never have that again. Instead, as she points out, people have got used to the idea that social welfare should be "relentlessly trimmed" while "corporate welfare grown inexorably", by which she means tax breaks and deregulation.

---SPSmith

The real New Atheism: Rejecting religion for a just world - Salon.com

http://www.salon.com/2013/12/14/the_real_new_atheism_rejecting_religion_for_a_just_world/


---SPSmith

6 Surprising Scientific Findings About Good and Evil | Mother Jones

http://m.motherjones.com/environment/2013/12/inquiring-minds-joshua-greene-moral-tribes


---SPSmith

Prevention and Control of Influenza with Vaccines

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr59e0729a1.htm


---SPSmith

'Sister Wives' case: Judge strikes down part of Utah polygamy law - CNN.com

http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/14/justice/utah-polygamy-law/index.html


---SPSmith

The History and Toxicity of Chlorine

http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/171547/

Although proposed as a disinfectant in the 1700s, it wasn't until 1825 that chlorine became widely used for the purpose of disinfecting. In 1825, the Royal Institute of France awarded the pharmacist Antoine Germain Labarraque for his recommendation of a chlorine solution for the enhancement of public health of France. Labarraque recommended that a chlorinated soda solution be used for disinfecting purposes and as a deodorant. After three years of various published clinic success using this chlorine solution, it became widely used and known as Labarraque's solution.

---SPSmith

Nice Shot - New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/10/opinion/10sachs.html?_r=1&oref=slogin


---SPSmith

Skeptico

http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/


---SPSmith

Omar Little is the gay stick-up man who robs drug dealers for a living in The Wire

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2008/jul/19/television.wire

When he robs an illicit card game, psychotic drug lord Marlo Stanfield fixes him with an evil glare and hisses, "Thats my money." Omar just smirks and explains, "Money ain't got no owners, only spenders."

---SPSmith

Mormon Church Finally Says Dark Skin is Not a Sign of God's Curse | Alternet

http://www.alternet.org/belief/mormon-church-dark-skin-sign-gods-curse-no-longer?paging=off¤t_page=1#bookmark

So, even the Mormons admit their book is steeped in blatant racism...

---SPSmith

5 Reasons Why 2013 Was The Best Year In Human History | ThinkProgress

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/12/11/3036671/2013-certainly-year-human-history/


---SPSmith

About Fandor

http://www.fandor.com/company/about


---SPSmith

Slate: Why Won't Anyone Take the NYC Intel Experience Store's Free Pizza?

I thought you would like this article from The Slate Magazine for iPad

Why Won't Anyone Take the NYC Intel Experience Store's Free Pizza?
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/12/13/intel_experience_store_in_nolita_new_york_can_t_seem_to_draw_in_visitors.html

---SPSmith

Slate: The Tragedy of Common-Sense Morality

I thought you would like this article from The Slate Magazine for iPad

The Tragedy of Common-Sense Morality
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist/2013/12/evolution_of_morality_the_brain_science_of_ethical_decisions.html

---SPSmith

Microsoft Word - STAFF REPORT.doc

http://www.sedonaaz.gov/ftp/Historic%20Preservation%20Commission/Archives/2009/2009%2005%2011/Meeting_Materials/Doodlebug_Ranch_Staff_Report_051109.pdf

NPS: Explore Nature » Air Resources » Air Quality Webcams » Grand Canyon NP

http://www.nature.nps.gov/air/WebCams/parks/grcacam/grcacam.cfm


---SPSmith

Megyn Kelly gets DailyShowed and WaPoed » Pharyngula

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/12/13/megyn-kelly-gets-dailyshowed-and-wapoed/


---SPSmith

The Manhunt for Christopher Dorner - Los Angeles Times

http://graphics.latimes.com/christopher-dorner-manhunt/#chapter-four

Riverside Police Chief Sergio Diaz, who had stood over Crain's body at the hospital, called support for Dorner "ignorance and hate masquerading as intellectualism."

---SPSmith

Megyn Kelly's Fox News Christmas war: Santa Claus 'just is' white - latimes.com

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-megyn-kelly-fox-news-christmas-war-santa-claus-just-is-white-20131212,0,2380655.story#axzz2nMrkaKA2

Eye on Sedona City Code with City Attorney Mike Goimarac

http://sedonaeye.com/eye-on-sedona-city-code-with-city-attorney-mike-goimarac

The City's sound regulations prohibit any animal from making noise for more than five minutes if continuous, or for more than 15 minutes if intermittent.

---SPSmith

Failure loves company

Failed President encourages failed field goal kicker. It is heartwarming to see the mediocre stick together. http://blogs.marketwatch.com/themargin/2013/12/11/george-w-bush-to-tormented-alabama-field-goal-kicker-life-has-its-setbacks-i-know/

---SPSmith

2013 Church Budget Allocations, Learning Priorities, and Quarterly Financial Trends

https://www.eccu.org/resources/advisorypanel/2013/surveyreports20


---SPSmith

An Atheist Manifesto : : Sam Harris

http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/atheist-manifesto-dec-7-2005


---SPSmith

One more attack on New Atheism from an atheist who should know better « Why Evolution Is True

http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013/12/10/one-more-attack-on-new-atheism-from-an-atheist-who-should-know-better/

Atheism is nothing more than a commitment to the most basic standard of intellectual honesty: One's convictions should be proportional to one's evidence. Pretending to be certain when one isn't—indeed, pretending to be certain about propositions for which no evidence is even conceivable—is both an intellectual and a moral failing.  (Sam Harris, 2005)
---SPSmith

Slate: Slate’s Favorite Recipes of the Year

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Slate's Favorite Recipes of the Year
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food/2013/12/slate_staff_favorite_recipes_of_2013_granola_chicken_cabbage_cobbler_and.html

---SPSmith

HP 15.6" Laptop 4GB Memory 750GB Hard Drive 2000-2d29dx - Best Buy

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/15-6-laptop-4gb-memory-750gb-hard-drive/2937012.p?id=1219083562742&skuId=2937012&st=HP%202000-2b19wm%2015.6-Inch%20Laptop%20PC%20


---SPSmith

David Simon: 'There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show' | World news | The Observer

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/08/david-simon-capitalism-marx-two-americas-wire


---SPSmith

More than a chipmaker? Intel's blown opportunities | Business Tech - CNET News

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57614279-92/more-than-a-chipmaker-intels-blown-opportunities/


---SPSmith

How Intel TV failed -- pay attention, Google and Apple | Internet & Media - CNET News

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57613334-93/how-intel-tv-failed-pay-attention-google-and-apple/


---SPSmith

Fatal Dog Bites Share Common Factors | Victoria Stilwell Positively

http://positively.com/2013/12/05/fatal-dog-bites-share-common-factors/


---SPSmith

Intel Sheds Light on the “Corner to Landing” Leap

http://www.hpcwire.com/2013/12/06/intel-sheds-light-corner-landing-leap/


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Florida man kills wife and son with crossbow, then slits throat - CNN.com

http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/05/justice/florida-crossbow-killings/index.html?hpt=hp_t3#cnn-disqus-area

No matter how you dress it up, there are some fundamental difficulties with Christianity that are pretty hard to overcome.

1. At its most fundamental level, Christianity requires a belief that an all-knowing, all-powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies 13,720,000,000 years ago (the age of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,720,000,000 years for human beings to gradually evolve, then, at some point gave them eternal life and sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in the Middle East.

While here, this divine visitor exhibits no knowledge of ANYTHING outside of the Iron Age Middle East, including the other continents, 99% of the human race, and the aforementioned galaxies.Either that, or it all started 6,000 years ago with one man, one woman and a talking snake. Either way "oh come on" just doesn't quite capture it.

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Dylan guitar sale rocks Christie's auction

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101254059


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My Community Website - Login Page Foothills

My Community Website - Login Page:

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‘Would You Kill the Fat Man?’ and ‘The Trolley Problem’ - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/books/review/would-you-kill-the-fat-man-and-the-trolley-problem.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0


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'Scientism' wars: there's an elephant in the room, and its name is Sam Harris | News | theguardian.com

http://www.theguardian.com/news/oliver-burkeman-s-blog/2013/aug/27/scientism-wars-sam-harris-elephant


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The Science of Right and Wrong by H. Allen Orr | The New York Review of Books

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/may/12/science-right-and-wrong/?pagination=false


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My Must-Have iPad Apps, 2013 Edition

http://www.macstories.net/roundups/my-must-have-ipad-apps-2013-edition/


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Martin Bashir Says Someone Should Sh*t in Sarah Palin’s Mouth | Mediaite

Martin Bashir Says Someone Should Sh*t in Sarah Palin’s Mouth | Mediaite: " Bashir lit into Palin straight away, referring to her as America’s “resident dunce” and characterizing her remarks as “scraping the barrel of her long-deceased mind, and using her all-time favorite analogy in an attempt to sound intelligent about the national debt.”"

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Bitcoin Explained

http://vimeo.com/63502573


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Religion Without God by Ronald Dworkin – review | Books | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/nov/28/religion-without-god-ronald-dworkin-review


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Philosophy Meets Medicine « Science-Based Medicine

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/philosophy-meets-medicine/


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Making the Web Faster with HTTP 2.0 - ACM Queue

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2555617


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Sedona: A Documentary Film by Carrie Poppy, Brian Thompson, Adam Isaak — Kickstarter

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1654796823/sedona-a-documentary-film


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“PISA Day”—An Ideological and Hyperventilated Exercise | Economic Policy Institute

http://www.epi.org/blog/pisa-day-ideological-hyperventilated-exercise/

Today, threats to the nation's future prosperity come much less from flaws in our education system than from insufficiently stimulative fiscal policies which tolerate excessive unemployment, wasting much of the education our young people have acquired; an outdated infrastructure: regulatory and tax policies that reward speculation more than productivity; an over-extended military; declining public investment in research and innovation; a wasteful and inefficient health care system; and the fact that typical workers and their families, no matter how well educated, do not share in the fruits of productivity growth as they once did. The best education system we can imagine can't succeed if we ignore these other problems - See more at: http://www.epi.org/blog/pisa-day-ideological-hyperventilated-exercise/#sthash.JvKvAAcb.dpuf

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Bad sex award goes to Manil Suri and his shoals of atomic nuclei | Books | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/dec/03/manil-suri-wins-bad-sex-book-award-city-of-devi?CMP=twt_fd


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Withings Pulse review

http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/16/withings-pulse-review/


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Fitbit® Force™

http://www.fitbit.com/force


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Withings - Pulse - Specs

http://www.withings.com/en/pulse/specs


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Intel Chairman Says Company Had Lost Its Way

Intel Chairman Says Company Had Lost Its Way:

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