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The de-Convert passes along the story of an amusing atheist twitter “victory”: In a classic case of irony, Christians tried to get the statement “No God, No Peace. Know God, Know Peace” to trend today on Twitter. The result of this was the phrase “No God” became the #1 trending topic. Please understand that atheists [...]
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The “#No God” Twitter Trend FAIL
October 20th, 2009 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Atheism, Christianity, Culture and Technology, Pop Culture, Religion 
Tags: FAIL, Irony, Twitter 
No Comments »Daily Hilarity: Awkward Facebook “Likes”
October 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke College Humor has more and they’re really doozies. Your Thoughts?
Facebook Monitoring User Moods
October 5th, 2009 Daniel Fincke uhhhh…. The company’s data team on Monday launched a trippy new application called the “Gross National Happiness Index.” Taking a similar format to its “Lexicon” trend-tracking product, the “GNH” currently displays a graph of data tabulated over the course of the past few years to track the “happiness” of Facebook users based on words picked up [...]
YouTube As Naturally Evolving The Future Of Television And How Google Benefits Off Of YouTube
September 29th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Neat video on how YouTube puts out so much material that we can discover what people actually will choose among a myriad of options and model TV off of it and then on the reach of Google and YouTube’s role in that: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Culture and Technology, Pop Culture, Technology, Videos Tags: Google, Television, Youtube No Comments »Getting Meat Without Killing Animals
September 27th, 2009 Daniel Fincke The idea of being able to eat delicious meat without it coming at the expense of poor abused animals is just too good to be true. Here’s hoping this kind of thing really is our future: A controversial cooker that ‘grows’ meat and fish by heating animal cells in your kitchen claimed first prize in [...]
Posted in Culture and Technology, News, News Discussion, Technology Tags: Animals, Humane Eating, Meat No Comments »The Internet In The Hands Of Dictatorships
September 25th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Evgeny Morozov discusses how repressive regimes use the internet to spread propaganda, finding it is a more powerful tool than censorship. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Authoritarianism, Culture and Technology, Politics, Videos, World Affairs Tags: Evgeny Morozov, TED No Comments »“On Blogging” Or “The Internet As Phonelike, Not TV-like”
July 6th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Over at Salon, Scott Rosenberg has a really thought-provoking and illuminating piece worth reading in full. Just two of the many salient insights: The most significant choice we have been making, collectively, ever since the popularization of Internet access in the mid-1990s, has been to favor two-way interpersonal communication over the passive reception of broadcast-style [...]
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