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Archive for February, 2011

Daily Hilarity: Tosh.0 Explains The Whole Plot Of Human Centipede (Uncut)

Daniel Tosh hilarious recounts the full plot of the supremely gross, transgressive horror film, The Human Centipede: Tosh.0 Tags: Tosh.0 Videos,Daniel Tosh,Web Redemption A few days after I successfully defended my dissertation last year, one of my best friends and I went out for a celebratory dinner and afterwards decided to see a movie on [...]

How Bill O'Reilly Is Like St. Thomas Aquinas

Colbert gives it to O’Reilly straight: “You’re like St. Thomas Aquinas–in that your understanding of the world is also from the 13th Century.” The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Crisis in Egypt – Anderson Cooper & Bill O’Reilly<a> www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog</a> Video Archive My own [...]

How To Get Something From Nothing!

Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel explains! (And in an accessible way which includes lots of pictures and comic strips!) (via) Your Thoughts?

Daily Hilarity: Spreading The Gospel In A Manner Worthy Of American Idol

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Reddit’s Chauvinistic Atheists

There are few more prominent and thriving online atheist communities than Reddit‘s atheism subreddit. So it’s especially disgraceful and embarrassing to me to see so many of these atheist redditters prove they have more testosterone than brains. Jen McCreight, the committed, inventive, and inspiringly effective atheist activist, biology graduate student, contributor to The Atheist’s Guide [...]

The Return Of Beavis And Butthead

MTV has announced that Beavis and Butthead is coming back with new episodes. Pitchfork has a list of some of their best musical criticism on this page (scroll down on that page a bit to find the full list, excerpted a bit below): “Uh oh…I think this is college music” (during the Flaming Lips’ “She [...]

Not Bad For Political-Message Comedy

Jamie Kilstein: Your Thoughts?

Daily Hilarity: Concurrence Round Table

There are more instances of emphatic agreement in this 34 second clip than I have ever witnessed between debating philosophers in my 15 years spent in philosophy. Your Thoughts?

Footage Of Attack On Anderson Cooper in Cairo

This really gives you the sense of the brutal, scary situation on the ground: Your Thoughts?

A Plain-Clothes Mubarak Crackdown?

An upsetting and infuriating inference from Nicholas Kristof: Today President Mubarak seems to have decided to crack down on the democracy movement, using not police or army troops but rather mobs of hoodlums and thugs. I’ve been spending hours on Tahrir today, and it is absurd to think of this as simply “clashes” between two [...]

Real vs. Fake Democratic Revolutions: A Pictorial Representation

via The Daily Dish (whose Egypt coverage all-day, everyday is must read) and whatstherumpus.) Your Thoughts?

Should We Fear An Influential Muslim Brotherhood Would Push Authoritarian Islamic Policies?

Nathan Brown is a political science professor at George Washington University and director of the school’s Institute for Middle East Studies.  He gives an overview of the Muslim Brotherhood’s evolution from their found through to today, explains how their renunciation of violent means came to pass decades ago, why al-Qaeda sees them as sell outs, [...]

How Not To Say Stupid Stuff About Egypt

A helpful guide, with special emphases on how not to be insufferably condescending. Your Thoughts?

1/4 Of All Internet Time Is Spent On Facebook

Just one of the interesting details from this informative interview about marketing on Facebook: This reminds me, please like Camels With Hammers on Facebook to stay caught up with us and help spread the word about the site to your friends!  Your support or lack thereof makes or breaks a blog.  Never underestimate your power [...]

Zach Wahls, Son Of Lesbians, Testifies To Iowa Legislature

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Daily Hilarity: Anatomy Of The Archetypical Internet Debate

I admit parts of this hit a little too close to home.  And by “home” I mean Facebook of course. via Your Thoughts?