Like any of that's enough to fight the Dark Master. Bator.

Xander ,'Lessons'


Natter 58: Let's call Venezuela!  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Jessica - May 07, 2008 9:34:18 am PDT #5390 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I wanna go to this one: [link]

Sustainable Solutions, Radical Designs — In a program that celebrates human ingenuity while providing a stark reminder of looming challenges, leading innovators including the planner behind China's first eco-city, an inventor of stackable cars, and a pioneer of urban farming, lay out radical blueprints and innovative solutions as they imagine housing, feeding, transporting and sustaining city dwellers of the not too distant future.

And this one: [link]

The Wonderful Weirdness of the Quantum World - Join Alan Alda as he accompanies Brian Greene, Nobel Laureate William Phillips and other leading thinkers at the vanguard of quantum research on an accessible multimedia exploration of the astounding weirdness of the quantum world.

And this one: [link]

Throwing a uniquely personal and intimate spotlight on their relationship with science, renowned researchers, writers, and artists take to the stage to tell stories about heroic failures, miscalculations and experiments — scientific and otherwise — gone wrong.

And this one: [link]

Are there universal laws of life, much like the fundamental laws of physics, that govern or limit the characteristics that make life — in any form — possible? Hear a vibrant discussion with astrobiologists Paul Davies, Steven Benner, and Maggie Turnbull about the search for life as we don’t know it.


§ ita § - May 07, 2008 9:38:31 am PDT #5391 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

a general grounding in how psychology

But they've gotten a psychiatrist and neuroscientist to talk about it--even a dissection of why it doesn't work interests me.


Jesse - May 07, 2008 9:39:06 am PDT #5392 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

So, I did go to buy Mother's Day cards, and I noticed (and liked) that on the tags for the mother-to-be cards they noted, "appropriate for adoption." I do @@ a little at how many different categories of cards they have, but they sure do cover all the bases! I considered getting a "Your first Mother's Day" card for my cousin, but they were all about baby laughing and whatever, and since she just had the baby last Friday, they didn't seem like they would resonate....


Allyson - May 07, 2008 9:39:40 am PDT #5393 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

I think it's so rocking that I know a goodly portion of the physicists listed. I AM A ROCK STAR BY ASSOCIATION.


amych - May 07, 2008 9:48:09 am PDT #5394 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

amych - May 07, 2008 9:48:45 am PDT #5395 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Ah, i didn't realize that it was for cell phones as well.

I didn't either, until I went to check if it there was a common method for different carriers. All this time, I've been going through my phone's craptastic settings menus to turn it off, and then again to turn it back on.


tommyrot - May 07, 2008 9:53:12 am PDT #5396 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

A post on PZ's blog:

And this blog confirms what I have found in almost every atheist blog I've visited: atheists lose their moral foundation, when they jetison God, and eventually end up foul-mouthed, pornographic, hate-filled, humorless individuals.

Hey, I'm not humorless!

[link]


shrift - May 07, 2008 10:00:28 am PDT #5397 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

atheists lose their moral foundation, when they jetison God, and eventually end up foul-mouthed, pornographic, hate-filled, humorless individuals.

Personally, I jettisoned God. And this dude left out "pedantic".


tommyrot - May 07, 2008 10:03:00 am PDT #5398 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Personally, I jettisoned God. And this dude left out "pedantic".

If I wasn't so hate-filled and humorless, I'd tell you that was really funny.


Jars - May 07, 2008 10:04:07 am PDT #5399 of 10001

foul-mouthed, pornographic, hate-filled, humorless individuals

Three out of four ain't bad. Gimme a few years and I'm sure I'll jettison humour along with everything else.