Connexions

[aesmael]

Doing these weekly is easier for me, less timely for thee.

About.com: Atheism/Agnosticism

1. Mailbag： What Atheists Believe [Yep. Important point: atheism does not require a complete lack of paranormal or supernatural beliefs.]

antitheism

1. Evangelical on Palin [I am shocked to see people expecting that being feminist ought to mean supporting Palin's candidacy. And I just realised people have actually been referring to her as Palin. Taking that as something good.]


2. Saudi cleric favours one-eye veil [There's a community gasmaskfetish? Of course there is. Ahem. Anyway, 'current level of control of women's bodies insufficient! Must increase control.' Because apparently being able to use both eyes encourages vanity.]

Carrollblog

1. Carrollblog 10.5 [I keep thinking he posts at LiveJournal.]

Cute Overload! :)

1. Pup Confessional [Cute... but not cute enough.]

Everything Jake

1. #361 [It is like the author read my complaints from last week and made an attempt to address them, back in 2001. Hm. We'll see.]


2. #367 [Torchwood was less settling to watch.]


3. #369 [Could someone explain this to me? Marijuana joke, if that helps you decide whether you might know.]


4. #371 [Here we see the evil work of Sinister McEvil. At work.]


5. Sunday April 29 2001 [I guess I'm impressed. Actually going to the trouble of writing Jake's story out in an appropriate style. And I learn that verisimilitude is not necessarily an improvement, or necessary. Perhaps in a different mood it would have been a lot of fun. What really needs to go? The racism.]


6. May 5, 2001 [That was a longer than expected block of text. More closely bound to the larger story than expected too.]


7. #386 [Laughing. That's a bit charming.]


8. #397 [That seems inconsistent. I thought the story was deliberately badly written. Not something which would be publishable without extensive editing and rewriting.]


9. #400 [Whenever characters in a webcomic start talking about starting a webcomic, I get nervous. Those usually happen within the first few strips, so maybe this is different.]


10. #402 [Change in strip format seems good. Heh, not that my opinion is going to influence whether it was kept in 2001.]


11. #404 [That was very bad. As in bad.]


12. #406 [Hm. Okay, I am curious.]


13. #407 [That may or may not have been a very brief mystery.]

I Can Has Cheezburger

1. i kno you'll miss me


2. Schrodinger's cat [Hee!]

New Scientist

1. Maths helps bees read the waggle dance [I wonder how this article would have proceeded if my initial reading of the first sentence were correct: "WHEN honeybees dance to point their hivemates towards metal-rich flowers, they waggle in a slightly different direction each time." This seems almost a non-article. Although interesting, the headline is overstated in my opinion, and all we get is a brief research update.]

No Fear of the Future

1. Texas grit? [It was supposed to remain a thought experiment, never to be actualised!]

Pam's House Blend

1. Three things on conspicuously select issues that voters should know about John McCain [Disappointed on these omissions. At least they are not endorsements of the McCain/Palin positions. It bothers me when politicians refuse to state outright their positions, when they hide them away as if the public must not be permitted to see what is being voted for.]


2. Homer Simpson's Vote [So that was an actual thing?]


3. Sarah Palin Criticizes Katie Couric's Interview

Scienceblogs

1. Freethinker Sunday Sermonette: NY Deli and Faith [I think he has a point about serving size. Also, does The Word always incorporate a symbol of atheism in the title? I should watch The Colbert Report more often. Preceding two statements not a logical progression.]


2. The Doctors Aren't the Only Ones at Fault [Makes sense to me. Drug companies should be responsible for disclosing any potential conflicts of interest due to payments made to doctors, not the sole responsibility of doctors.]


3. Radio reminder


4. Berkeley notices a creationist


5. Good Ol' Klingenschmitt [That's enough irony for me today. It is suggestive of mindset that a muslim in a non-proselytising position at the U.S. Naval Academy would provoke fears that he would violate these rules and attempt to convert midshipmen anyway. The way this is presented suggests the person saying this is known for such hypocrisies, but I would be shocked if he were alone in these views.]


6. Search Term Poetry [There is a certain sexual consistency to the search results leading people to blogs. This one less so than most I have seen.]


7. Palinoscopy [:-\]


8. McCain in Iowa


9. Detroit Crime Lab Closed [This has been coming for a while. Would not be surprised if more followed.]


10. Photo of the day #361: Flamingo [Yep. Unless my education has let me down, that sure is a flamingo.]


11. Bill O'Reilly: Proof of God's Existence [I suppose that could be construed as miraculous... but I do not believe it.]


12. It's pushing the concept of serial homology a bit far [Well, it's got the octoshark beat. Especially if it can fly.]


13. Today's Mystery Bird for you to Identify [Clearly a Soviet tank modelled on the Eyeless Duck.]


14. Toxoplasma - the brain parasite that influences human culture [I don't think I need to add anything. Go click?]


15. Exciting news on the HIV front [First here as advised, for what turns out to be a very quick primer on HIV infection and treatment.]

SF Novelists

1. How Stories End [I did not come at dissatisfaction with 'happily ever after' in quite the same way as described here. For me it was more a disbelief that happily ever after could exist, that any life could truly consist of ongoing happiness. As for the question posed... not enough yet of my stories have come to their end.]

Shakesville

1. The Pulpit is for Preaching

Strange Maps

1. 318 - The Semicolonial State of San Serriffe [Marvellous. So many places like this floating round the world.]