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Entries from May 2008

Exemplary Christian tolerance

May 24th, 2008 · No Comments

While Christians usually ride the tolerance train, when it’s about their rights, they do pratice their own special brand against others.

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Tags: Religion

Creationism’s evolution

May 21st, 2008 · No Comments

NCSE’s archives provide the missing link to prove that intelligent design is just another version of creationism in a new video.
The video, “Jesus in My Classroom,” posted today at www.ExpelledExposed.com, shows how NCSE’s archives helped win the seminal Kitzmiller v. Dover trial by tracing the history of the “intelligent design” textbook at issue in the [...]

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Tags: Creationism · Intelligent Design

Pause or resume iTunes with your headphones

May 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Breakaway is an excellent free utility for OS X, that will pause or resume iTunes whenever you plugin or unplug your headphones. You can walk away from your Mac for a minute without missing a beat of your favorite song, or disturb anyone with your speakers accidentally coming on.

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Tags: Apple

Dynamically set the sleep state of your Mac laptop

May 17th, 2008 · No Comments

SmartSleep is an excellent free preference pane for OS X, that dynamically sets the sleep state of your Mac laptop. It lets your laptop just sleep while the battery has a high level. If the battery level drops below a certain point it will switch to sleep and hibernate, so you have the best of [...]

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Tags: Apple

It takes religion to be that crazy

May 11th, 2008 · No Comments

Two people have been arrested after a Juneau County Sheriff’s deputy found one of them and her two children living in a home with the body of a 90-year-old woman decomposing on the bathroom toilet.
Tammy D. Lewis, 35, and Alan A. Bushey, 57, both of Necedah are each charged with two felony counts of causing [...]

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Tags: Religion

What? They DIDN’T burn him at a stake?

May 7th, 2008 · No Comments

As reported by Channel 10 in Tampa, Jim Piculas did a magic trick where he makes a toothpick disappear and reappear.
What happened next?
The principal called him up to the office and told him he was being accused of — wait for it, wait for it — wizardry.
Yes, you read that correctly.

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Tags: Antiscience

Theology explained in just 7 words

May 5th, 2008 · No Comments

And yes, this billboard (located in Hagerstown, MD) is for real…

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Tags: Religion

‘Darwinism’ is a root cause of Nazism?

May 5th, 2008 · No Comments

This could be taken straight from just about any religious right web site in 2008, and they’d fit right in.

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Tags: Creationism · Intelligent Design · Religion