Chapel Hill killings shine light on particular tensions between Islam and atheism - The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/02/11/chapel-hill-killings-shine-light-on-particular-tensions-between-islam-and-atheism/

If a person considers his atheism (a lack of belief in God) or secularism (a commitment to keeping religion out of public policy) a basis for hating whole groups of people, he is either deeply confused about what it means to think critically or suffering from some psychological disorder."

---Steve

Meet Walter Pitts, the Homeless Genius Who Revolutionized Artificial Intelligence

http://nautil.us/issue/21/information/the-man-who-tried-to-redeem-the-world-with-logic


---Steve

Why Do Many Reasonable People Doubt Science? - National Geographic Magazine

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/science-doubters/achenbach-text


---Steve

Show Appeal Mobile Home Search

http://app.dsmobileidx.com/1130/41/#s=Details&m=%7B%22mlsNumber%22%3A%225234868%22%7D


---Steve

Jim Crow South’s lynching of blacks and Christianity: The terror inflicted by whites was considered a religious ritual.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/02/jim_crow_south_s_lynching_of_blacks_and_christianity_the_terror_inflicted.html


---Steve

Simple Facts Upset the Wingnuts

http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2015/02/09/simple-facts-upset-the-wingnuts/


---Steve

Americans Don't Know What Causes Cancer - US News

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2015/02/04/americans-dont-know-what-causes-cancer?src=usn_tw


---Steve

Most Americans Don't Know They Can Take Steps To Prevent Cancer | ThinkProgress

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/02/10/3621266/americans-lifestyle-cancer-risk/


---Steve

Intel and Apple relationship - Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/intel-and-apple-relationship-2015-2


---Steve

I'm an Anti-Braker

http://robertmoorejr.tumblr.com/post/110101466091/im-an-anti-braker


---Steve

Rectangular Throw Rug Ideas Feat Rustic Kitchen Island And Pretty Pendant Lamps Plus Hardwood Floor Kitchen Rustic Kitchen Island Design Ideas in Center Placement and Extensive Painted Kitchen Cabinet Center Island Placement. Painted Kitchen Cabinet. Rail Pendant Lamp. ~ House of Art devalai

http://www.devalai.com/flagstone-indoor-floor-ideas-also-rustic-kitchen-island-with-unique-bench-design-feat-tiny-pendant-lighting/rectangular-throw-rug-ideas-feat-rustic-kitchen-island-and-pretty-pendant-lamps-plus-hardwood-floor/


---Steve

Secularists: We’re Fine Without God, Thanks - NYTimes.com

www.nytimes.com/2015/02/05/opinion/secularists-were-fine-without-god-thanks.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

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The World’s Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who is Going Broke - ProPublica

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-worlds-email-encryption-software-relies-on-one-guy-who-is-going-broke


---Steve

What Creative Professionals Do That Separates Them from Amateurs

http://lifehacker.com/what-creative-professionals-do-that-separate-them-from-1684023649


---Steve

The Race to Replace Bitcoin | Observer

http://observer.com/2015/02/the-race-to-replace-bitcoin/


---Steve

Retiree Circuit Portal | Intel Retiree Organization

http://intelretiree.com/retiree-circuit-portal/


---Steve

NearlyFreeSpeech.NET Web Hosting

https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/


---Steve

Sen. Feinstein Cracks Scathing Joke About Jeb Bush Candidacy

http://reverbpress.com/politics/sen-feinstein-cracks-scathing-joke-jeb-bush-candidacy/

"Jeb Bush looks like he's running for president. So now we know what the Bush family means by 'no child left behind.'"

---Steve

Fermented Food Linked to Mental Health | Psych Central News

http://psychcentral.com/news/2015/01/27/fermented-food-and-mental-health/80471.html


---Steve

The surprising history of hippy crack - Boing Boing

http://boingboing.net/2015/01/28/the-surprising-history-of-hipp.html?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=diggtwitter


---Steve

Neil Young's PonoPlayer: The Emperor Has No Clothes

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/it-was-one-of-kickstarters-most-successful-109496883039.html


---Steve

SciCheck

http://www.factcheck.org/scicheck/


---Steve

Golden Rice: An example of the potential benefits of genetic engineering technology - American Council on Science and Health (ACSH)

http://acsh.org/2015/01/golden-rice-example-potential-benefits-genetic-engineering-technology/


---Steve

6 Terrifying Facts About Measles | Mother Jones

http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2015/01/6-terrifying-facts-about-measles


---Steve

Favorites

http://www.who.int/bulletin/archives/80%2810%29776.pdf

CONTRARY BRIN

http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/

Keystone. That's it. The only positive-assertive thing. Keystone! Subsidize petro zillionaires to ship Canadian tar over the most vulnerable and precious agricultural aquifer in the world and stink our air, to they can ship it to China... and what's OUR cut? Zero.

---Steve

WHO | Measles

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs286/en/


---Steve

The Native Sibling

http://thenativesibling.bandcamp.com/


---Steve

'American Sniper' Is Almost Too Dumb to Criticize | Rolling Stone

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/american-sniper-is-almost-too-dumb-to-criticize-20150121?page=2

Sniper is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only thing that forces us to take it seriously is the extraordinary fact that an almost exactly similar worldview consumed the walnut-sized mind of the president who got us into the war in question.

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/american-sniper-is-almost-too-dumb-to-criticize-20150121#ixzz3PwPURuz6 
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---Steve

Melinda Gates Shames Anti-Vaxxers "Who Have Forgotten What Measles Death Looks Like" | Mother Jones

http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2015/01/melinda-gates-vaccinations


---Steve

Temptonik - You sing, computers rate

http://temptonik.com/


---Steve

How I Learned To Fall Asleep In Under 1 Minute | Byrdie.com

http://www.byrdie.com/how-to-fall-asleep-fast


---Steve

snopes.com: CFL Mercury Light Bulbs

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cfl.asp
If every American home replaced just one standard incandescent light bulb with a long-lasting CFL, the resultant energy savings would eliminate greenhouse gases equal to the emissions of 800,000 cars, according to the U.S. Energy Star program.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cfl.asp#QGItlrDbqrY6ed5x.99

---Steve

On Charlie Hebdo Pope Francis is using the wife-beater’s defence | Polly Toynbee | Comment is free | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/16/pope-francis-free-speech-charlie-hebdo?CMP=twt_gu


---Steve

The Mixer Master - Restoration Services

http://www.themixermaster.com/Services.php


---Steve

Pope Francis Supports Free Speech, Unless It Offends People - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Pope Francis Supports Free Speech, Unless It Offends People - Hit & Run : Reason.com:



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‘Boy Who Came Back From Heaven’ going back to publisher - The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2015/01/15/boy-who-came-back-from-heaven-going-back-to-publisher/


---Steve

A papal conundrum

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2015/01/15/a-papal-conundrum/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+freethoughtblogs%2Fpharyngula+%28FTB%3A+Pharyngula%29


---Steve

Great Railway Mysteries Through the Ages - BookBub Blog

http://media.bookbub.com/blog/2015/01/12/guide-to-railway-mysteries/


---Steve

Favorites

http://cdn2.perfectpatients.com/childsites/uploads/43/files/rebel.pdf

Google+

https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z12bjrf4kpe1y53k122tdzthmtahjxj12


---Steve

Noam Chomsky | What Is the Common Good?

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/21070-noam-chomsky-what-is-the-common-good


---Steve

What's new in CPUs since the 80s and how does it affect programmers?

http://danluu.com/new-cpu-features/


---Steve

Here’s Why Stealing Cars Went Out of Fashion - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/12/upshot/heres-why-stealing-cars-went-out-of-fashion.html?abt=0002&abg=0&_r=1

The most important factor is a technological advance: engine immobilizer systems, adopted by manufacturers in the late 1990s and early 2000s. These make it essentially impossible to start a car without the ignition key, which contains a microchip uniquely programmed by the dealer to match the car.

---Steve

The Rise and Fall of the US Government | BillMoyers.com

http://billmoyers.com/2015/01/10/rise-fall-u-s-government/


---Steve

115 Cathedral Rock Trl, Sedona, AZ 86336 is For Sale - Zillow

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/115-Cathedral-Rock-Trl-Sedona-AZ-86336/7380906_zpid/?z&utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=emo-savedsearch-address


---Steve

Unmournable Bodies - The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/unmournable-bodies


---Steve

CONTRARY BRIN

http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/

Of course this metric does not stand alone.  Every comparison of national health, from unemployment to small business startups to federal budget deficits, does better across the span of democratic administrations, vs republican ones.  Only a quasi religion of the hypnotized would ignore the titanic disparity of actual outcomes.  Ah, but such is the power of propaganda.
---Steve

The 10 Best Books of 2014, According to Everyone | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/2015/01/best-of-best-of-books/


---Steve

An unbeatable computer program has finally solved two-player limit Texas hold'em poker | The Verge

http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/8/7516219/Texas-Hold-Em-poker-solved-computer-program-cepheus


---Steve

rv sprinter pleasure way - Google Search

rv sprinter pleasure way - Google Search:



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36 Times "Breaking Bad" Was The Cleverest Show On Television

http://www.buzzfeed.com/robinedds/look-on-my-works-ye-mighty-and-despair?utm_term=4ldqpia#.rmqJdWRn30


---Steve

Luxurious Eco-Freindly Designer Home in Sedona, Spacious & Inspiring

http://flagstaff.craigslist.org/vac/4781135774.html


---Steve

Southeast Valley Gastroenterology

http://www.sevgastro.com/


---Steve

Intel® Compute Stick

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/compute-stick/intel-compute-stick.html


---Steve

Intel unveils button-sized Curie module to power future wearables (Wired UK)

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-01/07/intel-curie-quark-chip


---Steve

Intel pledges diversity by 2020, invests $300 million

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/01/06/intel-diversity-brian-krzanich-keynote-ces-2015/21361475/


---Steve

Intel Turns Off Russian Forums, Blogs & Comments In Response To Russian Blogging Law | Techdirt

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150104/07170429592/intel-turns-off-russian-forums-blogs-comments-response-to-russian-blogging-law.shtml


---Steve

God is on the ropes: The brilliant new science that has creationists and the Christian right terrified - Salon.com

http://www.salon.com/2015/01/03/god_is_on_the_ropes_the_brilliant_new_science_that_has_creationists_and_the_christian_right_terrified/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialflow


---Steve

Public Works Transfer Stations - Location and Hours

https://www.phoenix.gov/publicworks/garbage/disposable


---Steve

Why Rosyna Can't Take A Movie Screenshot - Discourse

http://www.alexrad.me/discourse/why-rosyna-cant-take-a-movie-screenshot.html


---Steve

The Moral Crusade Against Foodies - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/03/the-moral-crusade-against-foodies/308370/?single_page=true


---Steve

What the World Will Speak in 2115 - WSJ

http://www.wsj.com/articles/what-the-world-will-speak-in-2115-1420234648

That's what indigenous languages tend to be like in one way or another. Languages "grow" in complexity the way that people pick up habits and cars pick up rust. One minute the way you mark a verb in the future tense is to use will: I will buy it. The next minute, an idiom kicks in where people say I am going to buy it, because if you are going with the purpose of doing something, it follows that you will. Pretty soon that gels into a new way of putting a verb in the future tense with what a Martian would hear as a new "word," gonna.

---Steve

Are some diets “mass murder”? | The BMJ

http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g7654


---Steve

The Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Books Of 2014

http://io9.com/the-best-science-fiction-and-fantasy-books-of-2014-1676427116?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&utm_source=io9_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow


---Steve

surrenderhill EPK

http://artistecard.com/surrenderhill#!/musics/70357


---Steve

A Generation Lost in the Bazaar - ACM Queue

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257


---Steve

A Generation Lost in the Bazaar - ACM Queue

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257


---Steve

YTX20CH-BS AGM Maintenance Free Battery - Free Shipping: BatteryMart.com

http://www.batterymart.com/p-YTX20CH-BS-AGM-Maintenance-Free-Battery.html?Category_Code=kawasaki-vn1500-d-e-n-vulcan-classic-battery


---Steve

The 25 Apps You Must Download First on Your Hot New iPhone

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/the-25-apps-you-must-download-first-on-your-hot-106080354979.html


---Steve

Top 10 Nonfiction Books | TIME

http://time.com/3592235/top-10-nonfiction-books/


---Steve

Religion Without God - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/25/opinion/religion-without-god.html?_r=0


---Steve

The Proper Function - Adventure Inward

http://www.theproperfunction.com/


---Steve

5 time-wasting iOS apps for your holiday trip

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/5-time-wasting-ios-apps-124156216.html


---Steve

Mathematicians Make a Major Discovery About Prime Numbers | WIRED

http://www.wired.com/2014/12/mathematicians-make-major-discovery-prime-numbers


---Steve

Dell D2015H 19.5" LED Monitor Black 8KVY2 - Best Buy

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/dell-d2015h-19-5-led-monitor-black/9204129.p?id=1219399593301&skuId=9204129


---Steve

Tim Anderson, Dean of Engineering at UMass Amherst, Named a Distinguished Professor | Office of News & Media Relations | UMass Amherst

http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/tim-anderson-dean-engineering-umass-amherst-named-distinguished-professor


---Steve

Intel Betting on (Customized) Commodity Chips for Cloud Computing - NYTimes.com

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/19/intel-betting-on-customized-commodity-chips-for-cloud-computing/?_r=0

The reason is, again, computers. Intel's chip fabrication plants are now so automated that leaving out an unwanted core, or changing other properties, is a matter of a few new commands to the machine. Customers are willing to pay a little more for the special run of chips, or pay an engineering fee for the special service.

---Steve

InterContinental Hotels Group PLC : Our brands - IHG agrees to acquire Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants

http://www.ihgplc.com/index.asp?pageid=970


---Steve

David Mumford | Can one explain schemes to biologists

http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/mumford/blog/2014/Grothendieck.html


---Steve

On visual web, a photo is worth more than a 1000 words | Om Malik

http://om.co/2014/12/10/weaving-a-very-visual-web/


---Steve

Cohills Inn

http://www.cohillsinn.com/#about


---Steve

Cayman Square | HOA | Homeowners Association | Gilbert | Arizona

Cayman Square | HOA | Homeowners Association | Gilbert | Arizona:



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Dick Cheney Flips and Provides Evidence That George W. Bush Committed War Crimes

www.politicususa.com/2014/12/14/dick-cheney-flips-evidence-george-w-bush-committed-war-crimes.html

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---Steve

“Found by Companion”: How Texas’ Marriage Ban is Ignoring 31 Years of Commitment | Texas for Marriage

http://texasformarriage.org/voices/families/found-by-companion-how-texas-marriage-ban-is-ignoring-31-years-of-commitment/


---Steve

CIA torture report

Under the Bush administration, the United States of America systematically used torture to advance its political agendas.  Clear cut war crimes, atrocities for which we hung a bunch of high-ranking Nazis at Nuremberg.

Time to show the world our true principles and reinstate our national honor. Time to prosecute George W. Bush and Dick Cheney for crimes against humanity. 

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/12/09/worst-horrors-cia-torture-report/20146081/

---Steve

CONTRARY BRIN: Correlation vs. Causation? Does the universe conspire against freedom?

http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2014/12/correlation-vs-causation.html

An honest libertarian - even a "theorist" would recognize and accept the burden that this long and lamentable pattern lays upon our feet.  If 99% of societies were feudal pyramids of hierarchy and inherited status, it suggests that our own - with its emphasis on individualism, rights and competitive creativity is a rare exception. Not an outgrowth of "natural law" but instead an invention, spectacularly clever, complex and needing perpetual maintenance, lest it slump back into older, more entropic ways.

---Steve

CONTRARY BRIN

http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/

nearly all human societies that had agriculture - and many that didn't - also practiced feudalism, in which a few strong men would gang up to repress all others and establish rules so that their own sons would have harems.

---Steve

Fishing in pink waters: How scientists unraveled the El Niño mystery - Road to Paris - ICSU

http://roadtoparis.info/2014/12/04/el-nino-mystery-pink-waters-scientists/


---Steve

Edward Banfield: The racist, classist origins of broken windows policing.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2014/12/edward_banfield_the_racist_classist_origins_of_broken_windows_policing.html?wpsrc=fol_fb


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Brain Pickings

http://www.brainpickings.org/

The difficulty is that laws that attempt to enforce special forms of moral behavior breed disrespect for the law and for law-enforcing agencies among those who do not share the beliefs on which these regulations are based. And where disrespect and lawbreaking by the respectable are combined, one also finds connivance with crime in other areas of living.

The more complex a society becomes, the more fully the law must take into account the diversity of the people who live in it. The approach to crime is not a matter for the police and the courts — or even the lawmakers — alone. It is a matter in which the whole society is involved.

---Steve

Why Reform of Police Accountability is Unlikely | Coyote Blog

http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2014/12/why-reform-of-police-accountability-is-unlikely.html


---Steve

Favorites

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---Steve

The Man Behind 'Faces of Addiction' | The Fix

http://www.thefix.com/content/man-behind-%E2%80%9Cfaces-addiction%E2%80%9D?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email


---Steve

Best Country Albums Of 2014

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/11/27/best-country-albums-of-2014_n_6227956.html


---Steve

Harlan Ellison: a bibliographical checklist. by Leslie Kay Swigart - New, Rare & Used Books Online at Alibris Marketplace

http://t.alibris.com/booksearch?browse=0&keyword=Harlan+Ellison+bibliographical+checklist&mtype=B&hs.x=0&hs.y=0&hs=Submit


---Steve

Amazon.com: The Feynman Lectures on Physics (3 Volume Set) (Set v) (9780201021158): Richard Phillips Feynman: Books

http://www.amazon.com/Feynman-Lectures-Physics-Set/dp/0201021153/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1417478367&sr=1-9&keywords=feynman+lectures+on+physics


---Steve

Computer Lib: You Can and Must Understand Computers Now: Theodor H. Nelson: 9780893470029: Amazon.com: Books

http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Lib-Must-Understand-Computers/dp/0893470023


---Steve

Harlan Ellison: A bibliographical checklist: Leslie Kay Swigart: Amazon.com: Books

http://www.amazon.com/Harlan-Ellison-A-bibliographical-checklist/dp/B0006CG0BU


---Steve

We've got 'em: The best Cyber Monday deals

Check out this article from USA TODAY:

We've got 'em: The best Cyber Monday deals

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2014/11/30/save-of-the-day-cyber-monday/19711885/


---Steve