September 2009
Clunk Clunk Moo →
Jon Stewart mocks Oberlin’s very own @kalansherrard.
“The fact that new discoveries, such as Raptorex, routinely call into question...”
– Counterexamples to Evolution - Conservapedia
No. No, it has not. Also, you might want to check your fly—your experiential bias is showing. Science doesn’t have ‘dogmas’.
Anyone who understands basic scientific and evolutionary concepts will find this list of “reasons...
“The kind of outsiders Jesus attracted are not attracted to contemporary...”
– Tim Keller (via Joshua Blankenship » On Safe Churches)
Jesus made people want to be like him. More Christians (and religious people generally) should grade themselves on whether they can do the same.
Zoe & Doyle: Titanium Rings →
jacquelynn:
If I were a man, I’d buy any of these rings immediately.
As a man, I’d buy this one.
Coming Out in Middle School →
Actually, we live in pretty awesome times.
Brain Scans Reveal What You’ve Seen →
Future, it’s been nice knowing you but you’re getting a little bit too weird for me. I’m gonna go spend some quality time with the Past. Let me know when you get over this whole reading brains thing.
Avery Edison's first passport as a woman →
Avery Edison is usually bitingly funny. This particular piece is more poignant. I can’t imagine having to go through everything she’s gone through to become who she is and to be with the person she wants.
Congratulations, Avery.
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be...”
– Steve Jobs (via lorenrochelle)
“Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me wanna buy school supplies. I...”
– Mandy Blankenship » The Impact of Movie Lines on Feelings About the Approaching Season
The line itself is actually from You’ve Got Mail. I think perhaps I need to watch it again soon.
“We’re on this rollercoaster ride,
Hold on, I’ll stay here by your...”
– Answer the Phone by Sugar Ray
“They also say that people who live alone, but have pets, lead healthier lives,...”
– Philosophistry
I reblog this for a couple of reasons. First, this is how I think about thinking. I think of human beings as having background processes and free memory and using compression, just like any other computer.
Second, I think this is probably true. I know I do less brooding when there...
Hear, hear - Wikipedia →
I’ve had to explain to enough people that it’s “hear, hear” and not “here, here” to warrant posting this as a link. I’m particularly fond of the link to the +1 page.
Wikipedia: because cheering in the British Parliament and informal voting on internet forums are of equal notability.
The Priest and the Skeptic
“In the beginning,” says the priest, “God created the heavens and the earth.” “But wait,” says the skeptic. “Why God?” The priest pauses, a little perturbed. “‘In the beginning’,” he says, “‘was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God’. God came before everything, and before him was nothing....
Hide-and-Seek with God →
Just so.
YTMND - The Future of our World →
This is the first hopeful and pleasant use of YTMND I’ve seen.
(via Total Drek)
CIT and the Campus Community
Prosser: But Mr. Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months!
Arthur: Yes, well, as soon as I heard, I went straight round to see them. You hadn’t gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody.
Prosser: The plans were on display—
Arthur: On display? I had to go down to the cellar to find them!
Prosser: That’s the display department!
Arthur: With a flashlight.
Prosser: The lights had probably gone out.
Arthur: So had the stairs.
Prosser: But you found the notice, didn’t you?
Arthur: Yes, I did. It was "on display" in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying, "Beware of the Leopard."
“Part of a functioning democracy is the free and unfettered access to culture and...”
– waffle → Cultural Dusk
I really don’t have the urge to post about anything else.
“The current obsession with cellular devices, electronic readers and digitization...”
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Robert Darnton, Harvard University library director, who claims that reports of the death of the book have been greatly exaggerated. On the other hand, he wrote about it in a book. But the point stands.
Also, you gotta love this introduction by Quillblog:
Despite Google’s “colonization of...
“The authorities at Cushing Academy, a New England prep school in Ashburnham,...”
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Following on the heels of the Philadelphia libraries closing comes this article from The Rumpus about a Massachusetts school deciding “to do away with their traditional library”. I think the saddest part for me is the last bit. Children really aren’t checking out books and this decision is, in...
“Someone will surely read this and want to tell me about how atheists are jamming...”
– Total Drek: It’s all relative…
“Think of the nobility of libraries and librarianship, the great scar that the...”
– (via Apatosaurus)
And now think of the fact that the Philadelphia library system is being forced to shut down due to political games with taxpayer dollars.
Not a good day.