Google has apparently not learned its lesson when it comes to getting involved in social ventures, and is rolling out a new feature called the +1 button, which is essentially equivalent to Facebook’s “Like” button. If you’ve got a Google profile, you can see what your friends with Google Profiles have +1ed and, unlike Facebook, …
Monthly Archive: March 2011
Mar 31 2011
Nerdy things that make me laugh: QI
Stephen I refute that with every fibre of my being. The actual answer is a field – Jeremy No, you can’t refute. That’s bad grammar, that, Stephen. To refute, you have to provide evidence. Stephen Yes… Jeremy You mean “rebut”. Stephen No, I mean “repudiate”. Jeremy Fair enough. Stephen Yeah. But a good point. Very …
Mar 31 2011
Women and The Internet
It has long been a truism in the advertising world that men may make the money, but women control the purse strings, just watch any episode of Mad Men. All you have to do to see the truth of this is to look at those popular Old Spice Body Wash commercials, here’s a product aimed …
Mar 30 2011
Two Random Images Just for You
These have nothing to do with anything, except I found them when trying to find a picture of a skeptical baby. And that makes them even awesomer than they already were. Which is pretty awesome.
Mar 30 2011
From great ideas I had and never executed…
I bring you the Waiting for Godot video game. You may recall a couple months ago, an online video game based on The Great Gatsby went viral. It is a strange game, and I watched someone play through the entire thing. Because I'm more a game connoisseur than a gamer myself. It was pretty funny, …
Mar 29 2011
Children and the Supernatural
I read this really fascinating article about children and the ages at which they are prone to believing in the supernatural. So often we think of faith as childlike, and no matter what religion or superstitions you hold to, those of other people always seems silly and naive. Something a 4 year old might believe …
Mar 29 2011
In LGBT News
I'm so late on all of this, but I'm going to talk about it anyway. 1. The stay will not be lifted on performing gay marriages in California. It's been so long since the argument before the ninth, that one might easily have forgotten that we were a hairsbreadth away from allowing gay marriages in …
Mar 29 2011
Newt Gingrich is a Big, Fat Idiot (duh)
Alright, admittedly, I made the mistake of clicking on a CNN headline about Newt Gingrich and "atheists". Atheists is in quotes there because CNN seems to only share that word when it's in quotes. I know better than going to CNN, and I know better than reading stories about Newt Gingrich, and I really should …
Mar 25 2011
My Con Schedule 2011
I'm going to have a busy summer! Secular Coalition for America's Summit in Washington DC from May 19-21. I haven't been to DC since I was 13, so this is exciting, and I've been invited as Future Leader and will get to talk strategy, which is also cool. Still need to figure out travel plans, …
Mar 20 2011
Busy!
Have you ever had one of those weeks where there was just too much going on? That’s the sort of week I’ve been having. It’s been good, great even, I’ve just had a lot on my plate. I love the freelance writing I’m doing but, between working full-time and tutoring and trying to attend local …
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Kate Donovan
Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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