Black Goat of the Woods
Christmas should have a dark side. Here in the northern hemisphere, the days are short and the air is cold and dry. This is a time for standing alone in a stark winter landscape, surrounded by a...
View ArticleQuantum Leap
Oh dear. Scott Bailey found this website, and it is truly absurd. It appears to be New Thought taken in a slightly different direction than we’re used to. Are you ready for better living through...
View ArticleNow Entering the Diamond Age
The Next Web links to a blogger who claims to have created a gun with the help of a 3D printer:As of this writing, the blogger, HaveBlue, can’t be accessed. I’m guessing that his blog has been flooded....
View ArticleInteractive Drake Equation
BBC Future has provided us with a colorful application for twiddling with the variables in the Drake Equation. The Equation is a thought experiment meant to give a very rough idea as to the number of...
View ArticleWeirdest Syncretism Ever: The Jedi/Mayan Apocalypse
From Reuters:Deep inside the Guatemalan rainforest stand the ruins of the Maya temples that George Lucas used to film the planet Yavin 4 in the movie “Star Wars,” from where Skywalker and his sidekick...
View ArticleDeath Stars and Taxes
At the White House Petitions page there have been any number of jokey petitions. One particular one requested that the American government “Secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a...
View ArticleHail Azathoth
I’d just like to remind all of you that I live nowhere near Oklahoma City. I expect you all to be my alibis when the police ask about all the empty bags of concrete mix in my basement.Monument to ‘god...
View ArticleThe Grand (Dirty) Old Men of Science Fiction
From PZ Myers, I found this painfully accurate review of Piers Anthony’s Spell for Chameleon. The author of the review, Jason Heller, is in the same position I was in a few years back: rereading some...
View ArticleOnward Chitin Soldier
Taking an insult and turning it into a badge of honor is an old bit of cultural jiu-jitsu. “Queer” is an obvious example. “Atheist” was a pejorative for centuries. The word “Christian” may have started...
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