Who is the most trusted news anchor since Walter Cronkite’s passing? According to a Time poll, it’s none other than Jon Stewart. “Bam!”
I’m not knockin’ Jon Stewart here, in fact I love his work. I’m just pissed that the actual media can’t come up with anything slightly more trustworthy.
…would I get this joke:
via www.boingboing.net
Also, I want to express my gratitude to the Internet. It had many very informative pages and videos on how to build my very own PC from scratch, which I plan to do in a few months. I’m also learning that the internet is slowly becoming the venue for most of my shopping; most stores I visit never have the product I need (or if it’s clothing, in my size), and they offer to order it for me, when I could to the exact same thing from their website. This is both good and bad. I’m skipping out on heavy traffic to go shopping, but I only get to see a photo of what I’m spending X dollars on.
Against my conscience, I caved; I bought an iPod Nano for running. Ugh!
Edit: Haha. I just realized that this post is doubly funny
Put a Romanian blonde in front of a camera and let her rant:
This was worth pausing my work for 6 minutes; Dara O’Briain speaks my mind!
(via Pharyngula)
Argh, it’s hard for me to work, when I see all the headlines on Slashdot that interest me. I want to learn as much as I can about open source software and arguing for the democratization of the internet and how it creates accountability, as long as openness is maintained. I’m considering making the switch to Linux, which for many sounds either silly, geeky, or (most likely) like something they don’t know/care about.
I want to form an opinion on the use of radar to prevent bats from colliding into windmills (it does so by literally microwaving their heads). Then there’s Canada’s nuclear reactors, that help create the medical isotopes desperately needed in a new global shortage. Harper wants us to stop making them. At least those who live near the reactor won’t be needing the isotopes as much (a large proportion of people who live near them get cancer).
I also want to know more about issues when it comes to intellectual property, aside from the obvious music/game/movie industry piracy issues. For example, I want to form an opinion on doctors fighting patents on methods of metabolite level observation.
I want to explore the moon, learn more about the new stage in human evolution, and I wish to learn more about autism.
I’m also really interested in biomimicry, and the development of countermeasures for modern weapons. But alas, I have to get back to work—as much as I would liked to be bathed in a soothing green light.
A.J. Jacobs of Esquire Magazine gives interesting insight of his personal experiment of following the rules in the bible as literally as possible for a full year. There is very interesting insight to be had. I especially enjoy his point from 6:20 to 7:20, 11:18 and 14:28 onward. This guy deserves a tip of the hat.
(Thanks to Luc Archer for the tip!)
This is unreal. Ireland criminalizes blasphemy. From TFA:
Aside from a €25,000 fine (reduced from the €100,000 originally sought by the government), the new Defamation Act gives the authorities the power to stage raids on publishers: the courts may now issue a warrant authorising the police to enter, using ‘reasonable force’, premises where they have grounds for believing there are copies of ‘blasphemous statements’.
I’ll state it for the millionth time, I think censorship does far more harm than good. I don’t believe that hiding the truth, and lying about the way we think, will help us rid ourselves of any problem in the world.
Take videos of beheadings, or hypothetically, someone skinning a cat alive. I am against censoring such a video because I think it’s important to see that there are some people who actually do these kinds of things, that it’s important to know what some people are actually capable of. Ignorance of the fact will only lead us away from treating the problem – it’s hard to do if you don’t know about why/how people do these things. It is my view that those who cannot handle truth do not deserve to reap the benefits of a progressive and accountable society.
An argument that supports censorship is based on the power of words; “The pen is mightier than the sword”. A well-timed insult to the right person has the capacity to trigger a war that will kill millions, neh? Against that, I argue that is is not the fault of the one who utters their thought, rather it is the one who freaks out, insulted, and who actually does the killing.
I’ll debate any person on this topic at any time.
Louis CK is coming to Moncton, and I just scored some decent seats. Should be fun!
I was at a family gathering in Québec this weekend, so I was too busy having a conversation with my 94 year old great-grandmother to post something about current affairs, or updating the poll on my website.
In the meantime, check out how “hope and change” has not yet come to America, as a critic’s metaphorical mic is cut.
“AREA NEWSPAPER HATES WORLD, LIFE, YOU” – If you don’t know where this is probably from, you might need to read this.
