Monthly Archive for May, 2008

More of this quirky Erin McKean lady

Kent Hovind debates Michael Shermer

Mr. Kent Hovind is a true creationist - he’ll have none of that blasphemous & weak “Intelligent Design” talk. What happened to this man that deprived him of his faculty of reason? Blessed must be the ignorant.

… Not so blessed the criminal, however. Mr. Kent Hovind is currently serving a ten-year sentence. His having been incarcerated, of course, is not an argument against his theories.

Adaptation: John Laroche

John Laroche: Then one morning, I woke up and said, “Fuck fish.” I renounce fish, I will never set foot in that ocean again. And there hasn’t been a time where I have stuck so much as a toe back in that ocean.
Susan Orlean: But why?
John Laroche: Done with fish.

Erin McKean: Redefining the dictionary

I have more dictionaries than I care to admit, so I grant I am biased.
But if this lady can’t get you excited about dictionaries, then you’re probably dead.

Also, visit her at dictionaryevangelist.com. What a great name for a site!

Christopher Hitchens on Tim Russert Show

Being No One: Consciousness, The Phenomenal Self, and First-Person Perspective

A lecture by Thomas Metzinger. View here, or at the source.
Interesting talk. The conclusion was a bit off.

One with Everything

A buddhist monk visiting New York City goes up to a hot dog vendor and says, “Make me one with everything.”

The hot dog vendor fixes a hot dog and hands it to the monk, who pays with a $20 bill.

The vendor puts the bill in the cash box and closes it. “Excuse me, but where’s my change?” asks the buddhist monk.

The vendor responds, “Change must come from within.”