Over on my post about the UK rape survivor campaign, John Greg threadjacked the entire comments thread to be about the ongoing so-called Great Rift between various factions in the skeptic and atheist blogosphere over Rebecca Watson’s trip to Ireland and into the “right to flirt” rabbithole, which I’ve covered extensively in the past. Part …
Monthly Archive: February 2012
Feb 17 2012
The Dragonborn Comes
I used to be a blogger like you, then I took a server to the knee. Work has well and thoroughly kicked my ass. Six straight 12+ hour days, many of them 16 hours, two of them full-on graveyards, , and I am nothing short of exhausted. Really hoping I’ll be able to get back …
Feb 16 2012
Republicans hearing on contraception: no women witnesses allowed
They were just one day removed from being exactly one month to the day from Israel’s gynaecological conference where no women speakers were allowed to present on lady bits. Just one day. This is 2012, people. You wouldn’t think this nonsense could happen here, now. Here in the Western world, where certain factions declare that …
Feb 15 2012
CPAC: Kevin Jackson accuses left of “normalizing pedophilia”
This is ridiculous. Kevin Jackson, a Tea Party activist invited to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference, claims that the political Left is not only successful, but they’re successful because they’re uncivil, and they’ve done things like redefine pedophilia. Right Wing Watch suggests they’re trying to conflate the gay rights movement with pedophilia, and …
Feb 14 2012
The Binding of Isaac
AliasAlpha pointed me to an interesting article about gamifying religion, on how to modernize religious beliefs to compete in today’s more complicated and more nuanced understanding of morality and society. I have a lot of thoughts to unpack on that, but I don’t know that I can manage right now, where I’ve got yet another …
Feb 13 2012
Agile Quadrotors and our coming robotic apocalypse
Via Wired, and my darling wife Jodi who declared “we need these as pets!”, some pretty damn cool robotics from University of Pennsylvania. Anyone else amongst my readership think of Half-Life 2′s Manhacks? Judging by some of the related videos, I’d guess so. (I might also know my audience, given how many of you are …
Feb 13 2012
On helping people move
So as Cuttlefish recently documented, I managed to… uh… persuade the Google Python scripts that handle migrating Blogspot archives to WordPress into allowing him to import his older archives, so his old poetry, all the way back to 2007, is now available here at Freethought Blogs. Meanwhile, I’ve also converted Libby Anne’s posts and sent …
Feb 12 2012
3D Printing used to replace woman’s jaw
This is damned cool. An 83 year old woman had an infected mandible, and needed it to be removed. Hell of a way to finish out your life, with no jaw, so doctors used a 3D printer to build a titanium and organic ceramic jaw to replace her old one. The 3D printer prints titanium …
Feb 12 2012
Rape survivor campaign in UK: Must we say “real men?”
I’m of two minds about this UK rape survivors campaign highlighted over at Copyranter.
Feb 11 2012
The Context that Justifies “Cunt”
Penn Jillette is a douchebag. We knew that, we know that, and some of us argue that it’s one of the main ways he’s risen to stardom in our community. Myself included. So it wasn’t a real surprise to any of us that, with his steadfast defense of showing women as tit-and-ass buffets, and his …
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