January 2012
"Christian" Classmates Threaten Girl with Eternal... →
think4yourself:
somepolitics:
tonybaldwin:
abaldwin360:
sixtyforty:
Rhode Island Cranston High School West student Jessica Ahlquist successfully sued her school to have a Christian prayer mural removed from the state-funded public establishment. Her argument, a textbook case of separation of church and state, was sufficient to win U.S. District Court Judge Ronald R. Lagueux over, who...
Pink Zebra Ninja Shoes →
fat-thin-atheism:
r0bertbrowniejr:
Yesterday my mom posted a picture on Facebook of my 5 year old brother Sam wearing a pair of shoes he picked out for his first day of preschool.
She explained to him in the store that they were really made for girls. Sam then told her that he didn’t care and that “ninjas can wear pink shoes too.”
Sam went to preschool and got several compliments on his...
“Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for...”
– William Wirt (via eloquentandhonest)
UX: THE NEW FRENCH HACKER-ARTIST UNDERGROUND →
criminalwisdom:
A mysterious band of hacker-artists is prowling the network of tunnels below Paris, secretly refurbishing the city’s neglected treasures.
UX’s most sensational caper (to be revealed so far, at least) was completed in 2006. A cadre spent months infiltrating the Pantheon, the grand structure in Paris that houses the remains of France’s most cherished citizens. Eight restorers...
“Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (via aestivial)
The Dark Net Rises: A Private, Secure and... →
Using a peer-to-peer approach FNF (as well as other groups such as Project Mesh Net and Open-Mesh.org ) are working on developing a “mesh” approach to the internet which, theoretically would be free, ubiquitous and anonymous. Others are revisiting older tech such as HAM or CB radio based packet radio systems as stand alone systems or as nodes in an newly emerging alternative internet.
What...
“Consider the intelligence of the average American. Then consider the fact
that...”
– Mark Twain (via azspot)
“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
– Stephen Hawking (via 190590)
“I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want...”
– Simone de Beauvoir (via misswallflower)
“If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to...”
– Lauryn Hill
Study finds marijuana smoke does not damage lungs... →
stfuconservatives:
Remember those ads where it showed a teenager cutting open five cigarettes and rolling them into a joint, because that’s how bad pot smoke is for you? Yeah, pack of lies. Though as the LA Times’ headline points out, little things like facts probably won’t change anyone’s mind on the (significant) difference between cigarette and marijuana smoke.
-Jess
