Like New Math for god

I finally managed to read through Wired's New Atheism article. While I've learned to be more respectful of christians than i was in the first few years after leaving the church, that's really only true of christians i know personally. Christianity as a whole isn't ...

Art or Design?

Pop Quiz!
for each of the following items, tell me whether they are art or design:

CSS House 2
CSS Zen Garden
Joshua Davis' Work for the BMW Z4
Mies Van Der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion
Frank Ghery's Jay Pritzker Pavilion

The distinction between art and design is semantic and objective.  There is ...

Shallow Rewards

The internet is equalizing music. And erasing the lies that soundscan told us. but mocking music doesn't get it. They're still holding on to an idyllic world dependent on distribution channels that held music hostage for so long. This, despite statistics showing ...

Top Ten Signs You’re a Fundamentalist Christian

9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.

A Smoker’s Manifesto

I started smoking when i was 18. Just because it was legal at that age, doesn't mean i wasn't being immature and rebellious. Smoking was always something i found attractive, despite the protestant ideal that one shouldn't defile their 'temple'. i guess the attraction goes back to the smell of ...