I'm home from my vacation and will be posting again soon. My thoughts on the Atheist Alliance International conference in Iceland will appear on the Brights forums shortly (hopefully), and then I'll get to work on summarising my America Experience (which will be friends-locked). At the moment, I'm mostly trying not to cough my lungs up.

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As a faithful reader of Schlock Mercenary I tend to read creator Howard Tayler's open letters and blogs. Howard Tayler is a full-time cartoonist living in Orem, Utah with his wife and kids, and unsurprisingly, he's a Latter-Day Saint. If you've read Schlock you know there's not one sign of this in his comic - it is utterly secular. In fact, on ( Read more... )

There's a very interesting article on mirror neurons featured on Edge's front page at the moment.

/.../ cells in the human anterior cingulate, which normally fire when you poke the patient with a needle ("pain neurons"), will also fire when the patient watches another patient being poked. The mirror neurons, it would seem, dissolve the barrier ( Read more... )

I love Wikipedia. Like Skype, it's one of those incredibly useful things that should be obvious to anyone but only a few manage to actually come up with.

I can lose hours just randomly surfing through it, reading about everything and anything. I've yet to get as far as editing anything (although when I saw the entry on education in Sweden I got ( Read more... )

In case anyone's actually interested... I put up some pictures of the flooded meadow in my scrapbook. First time I used it, it's actually a great tool.

http://pics.livejournal.com/furikoneko

Spent two hours wandering around taking those pictures today. Viran (doggie) was completely exhausted afterwards. Apparently she's too old and fat to be ( Read more... )

The Invisible Pink Unicorn

"The Invisible Pink Unicorn is a being of great spiritual power. We know this because she is capable of being invisible and pink at the same time. Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorn is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that she is pink; we logically know that she is invisible because ( Read more... )

Yah. New... "feature" of this li'l corner of the web of mine. I've recently felt the need to highlight a few choice links from my bookmarks, and since I still don't have a working webpage to do that on, I thought I'd do that here. I'll update it every weekend, well, I'll try.

First out is Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the ( Read more... )

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