Christian kids ready to preach and die for the bible?
I was truly disturbed after watching Jesus Camp. What is this the crusades? What the hell is it with fundamentalists and their need to brainwash their kids with a militant belief system?
Here are some quotes from the ...
Great find by the Richard Dawkin's website. It's the reDiscovery's Periodic Table of Elements:
And the simplified version for Kansas:
Family Guy may have put it best with this clip:
My cousin Fred recently blogged about our grandfather donating his old Minneapolis-Moline wire baler. The baler is an antique now, but it's the same baler that my grandpa, father, uncle, and cousins use to bale hay and straw on the family farm.
Since it used wire to hold the bales together, ...
Kryptonite
Jadarite
'Kryptonite' was recently discovered in Siberia, well at least a mineral with the same chemical formula as Kryptonite: Na Li B SiO2 OH
Sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide doesn't really roll off the tongue but, unfortunately they couldn't name it Kryptonite because it doesn't contain any Kryptonium (yes it's a real ...
Yay! It's the hundredth and eleventh day of the year (which of course is my birthday). :)
Here are some other firsts:
1st Dictionary published by Noah Webster
1st Buffalo born in Golden Gate Park
1st Polaroid camera is sold in US
1st Record by Elvis Presley, Heartbreak Hotel, becomes #1
1st £ coin introduced in ...
This pie chart from the San Francisco Chronicle blew me away this morning when I saw it on the train. I normally don't get political in my blog, but this is insane.
Fifty-two percent of the 2008 federal discretionary budget is going to the f@&king Pentagon!?
source: Does the U.S. budget reflect ...
It's official... I just turned
1,000,000,000 Seconds Old!!
About five years ago I ran across a site that specialized in date calculations. So after entering my birthday and birth time plus one billion seconds, it spit back:
28 Dec 2006 3:06:54 PST
One billion down, a few more to go. :)
Happy Holidays... I hope you have a:
Merry Christmas,
Happy Hanukkah,
Happy Quanza,
Happy Festivus,
And if you don't have subscribe to any of those I hope you had a great Winter Solstice (or Summer Solstice for my Australian friends).
[singlepic=188,200,300,,right]I had a flashback while sending out my Christmas cards this weekend.
The post office's new snowflake stamps look eerily similar to a few snowflake illustrations I created last year and started selling them on a stock photography site.
(To help show the similarities I placed my snowflakes on the same stamp ...
I quickly learned to never abbreviate San Francisco by calling it San Fran. No matter where you are in the Bay area, even if you're in the middle of Oakland or San Jose, it's always either San Francisco or the city.
Learning the regional speech dialects has been relatively easy, it's ...
