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Often the delete key is my friend. A thousand word post has disappeared. I was going to post a response to someone else’s post, and use this video of Douglas Adams as an example of positive atheism. I’m tired of yet another post from someone who says “I’m an atheist, but you mustn’t talk about [...]

Alphologists at the University of Billund, Denmark have announced the discovery of the 27th letter of the English Alphabet. The letter, which has yet to be named, was uncovered during library renovations over the Easter Break. Professor Olaf Proil who identified the letter said the discovery was a complete surprise.

I’ve been reminded that I should link to this paper from Spring 2006 today. I’ve no idea what this author had been drinking, but it must have been pretty tasty, because the author clearly drunk a lot of it. Neanderthals explained with the aid of Tom Cruise. Some people are simply beyond help.

Clarkson published details of his Barclays account in the Sun newspaper, including his account number and sort code. He even told people how to find out his address. “All you’ll be able to do with them is put money into my account. Not take it out. Honestly, I’ve never known such a palaver about nothing,” [...]

Archaeoporn has an entry illustrating one of the problems with buying illicit antiquities. It turns out that not all criminals are trustworthy people. Take for instance the Seal of Yzbl, it’s a seal of Queen Jezebel as mentioned in the Bible™. At least it is if you don’t look at it too closely. If you [...]

Original photo by Eviljohnius. I’ll be honest I don’t understand Lolcats, but I thought I’d try and get into the spirit of the thing. You’ve probably seen similar around the web, sorry teh web, and now you can make your own, sorry sorry, ur own with a tool from Big Huge Labs. At a time [...]

After a request by Pappa Cambria, there’s now a Creationism group on Flickr. Duane Gish card created by Pappa Cambria. Membership is open to everyone, so you can add your own cards. Sometime before next Darwin Day I plan to write up the rules for Creationism: The Card Game (or CreationismTCG if I get carried [...]

Photo (cc) Analog Photos. Phil sent me a link to the Amazon UK page for the new book by Richard Littlejohn. He’s a hack for the Daily Mail, a news organisation that makes Fox News look fair and balanced, so I thought that Phil’s recent trip to Syria had left him with mental trauma. Not [...]

A vote to ostracise Pericles. Photo (CC) Wallyg. Occasionally there is a petition which does seem like a stroke of genius. This is an example. We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to create the procedure of ostracism as practised under the ancient Greek Athenian democracy. Now I know what you’re thinking. Ostracism was a [...]

Original image by vj_pdx. I’m busy today, so I don’t have time to put together the Darwin Day post that I’d like to. In the meantime here’s another Creationism card. I’m starting to get an idea of how a game would work, so tentatively there might be more cards up and a working game for [...]