Truth is much stranger than fiction.
Have you heard of George Laraque? I don’t mean the ice hockey player. I mean the ex-ice hockey player who is now the deputy leader of the Green Party of Canada. Yikes!
Monthly Archives: July 2010
Why are hard things hard?
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. — Michelangelo Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come. – Michelangelo … Continue reading
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Tagged art, excellence, hard, leonardo da vinci, life, michelangelo, work
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Nuclear Bombs
Great video on Chris Blattman’s blog. Well worth the time.
Jerk Wars
Jerk Wars are what the Internet is best at. Westboro Baptist Church vs. Some Nerds. Recently I commented about a backlash against a cultural church. Well… I guess this is it. The best description I can come up for this … Continue reading
Posted in curios
Tagged comiccon, conflict, fundamentalism, jerk wars, jerks, nerds, war
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Good theology in the funnies
Today’s Non Sequitur The Kingdom of God is such a departure from life as we know it that we can’t even conceive of what it’s like. That’s one of the reasons that we can’t build such a thing ourselves. It’s … Continue reading
Godblock – followup
At first, Godblock upset me. It left me feeling hurt and sad, so much so that I had to put a link to it and see what others thought. Looking at the site a second time, it could be a … Continue reading
Selection Bias
It’s time to learn why you can’t trust anything on the internet. Today we’re going to dive into the world of statistics and have a look at Selection Bias. And because we’re talking about the internet, we’re going to demonstrate … Continue reading
Posted in tongueincheek
Tagged bantheinternet, black belt jones, blaxploitation, internet, movies, statistics
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It’s only Fair
If I linked to the depression that is Godblock, I should link to something nice: A godly man being paid a compliment by quite a cynical secularist.
It just hurts so bad
Thanks, Oracle. “Deploying coherent packages of software functionality as loosely coupled, coarse-grained services delivers dramatically improved application flexibility, allowing enterprises to continuously adapt constellations of services to keep IT capabilities aligned with business goals.” If I ever want to “continuously … Continue reading