So, it appears I've been laid off. As of Friday, March 27th, I will be once again jobless ( Read more... )

Read this. Science is fucking awesome. http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20081017/sc_livescience/plantscryforhelp

Just so you don't think I'm picking on any one religion more than any other... I have just one question.

Magic underwear? Really? REALLY?

The issue of end of life care, or euthanasia, is a touchy one, but here in Canada it doesn't make the headlines very often, nor does it seem like an issue that our politicians take much note of. We haven't had many major cases of questionable euthanasia in Canada, nor have we had it pressed into our public consciousness on a local level. Regardless ( Read more... )

How is it, that in 2008, we can point and laugh at the theory that 75 million years ago an alien came to earth and threw everyone into a volcano, blew them up with H-Bombs, and that because of that, now everyone has impurities in their soul that they have to have cleaned by auditing, BUT, still believe that an invisible man in the sky can hear 7 ( Read more... )

http://www.transitional-fossil.com/

Smallest snake!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080804100258.htm

OMG HILARIOUS
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1247

Possible cure for CO2 levels
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080721001742.htm

how birds recognize brood parasites
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/ ( Read more... )

I just booked my flight to Vancouver on July 31, and will be staying until early Monday August 4. I'll probably only be on the island for a day and a bit, so if you want to see me, I'll be taking the ferry across on Saturday morning, and probably just gonna bus around and see the stuff I wanna see there. I'm definitely doing a whale watching tour ( Read more... )

Alright, so I was busy with actual work yesterday, so this is going to combine yesterday and today's science, skepticism, and atheist news.

Dude kidnaps a cracker. Catholics seem not to care.
http://savethecracker.blogspot.com/2008/07/day ( Read more... )