Archive for May, 2006

HintWiki Picking Up Steam

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

It looks as though word is getting out about the HintWiki. Since last week, two people, complete strangers, have put up pages of hints for AGON Episode 3: the Pirates of Madagascar and Trace Memory. Très cool.

Dreamfall on HintWiki

Saturday, May 20th, 2006

I’ve added hints for Dreamfall (the sequel to The Longest Journey) to the HintWiki.

Have You Been Saved?

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

On the Apr. 21, 2006 edition of Point of Inquiry, Lauren Becker has an excellent and non-mushy editorial on environmentalism, “Have You Been Saved?” (the show is here; the editorial starts at the 1:50 mark). Go listen to it. The rest of the show has Bill Nye, so it’s all good. Her main point (echoed later by Nye) is that environmentalism isn’t […]

Discovery Institute Shills Lie About Their Connection

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

.same { background-color: yellow; } .diff { background-color: cyan; } There’s a new site on the block: Physicians and Surgeons for Scientific Integrity. Not much new there. It’s just “30 Helens agree. Evolution doesn’t work” (sadly, their list of Helens doesn’t include a single Steve). But finn2 over at LiveJournal did some investigative work and found some interesting stuff: Here’s […]

Breaking: Pope Does Not Have Magic Powers, Says Vatican

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

An article in the Scotsman says that BELIEVING that God created the universe in six days is a form of superstitious paganism, the Vatican astronomer Guy Consolmagno claimed yesterday. The rest of the article goes on to say that the god of the creationists is a “nature god”, harking back to the days when there were different […]

And Speaking of Satan…

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

Why don’t Christians and Muslims pray for Satan to be saved? If they think that Satan causes a lot of bad things to happen, and if they believe that prayer works, wouldn’t it be a Good Thing if Satan became good? Attacking evil at its root, as it were.

God and Free Will

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

This may be an old argument, but I just ran across it on a random podcast: One argument for the lack of clear evidence of God is that it would undermine free will: anyone who knew for a fact that God exists would be overcome with goodness or something, and in the presence of such a […]

Terrorist Shoes

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

Would someone please explain to me why the TSA requires passengers to take off their shoes at the airport? Seriously. I understand that it’s a reaction to the shoe bomber, but what I’m asking is what security benefit this procedure provides. Presumably what they’re looking for when they x-ray your shoes is something that Shows up in x-rays. Doesn’t show up in […]