A reply to blogger Anthony Frosh who is frothing at the mouth over Atheists like Richard Dawkins daring to point out some harsh truths.
Pork 2.0: Meat blob grown in a lab
Dec 11th, 2009
Meat grown in a lab: the ethics of vat grown vs slaughtered meat (a future discussion as it isn’t quite there yet).
Left vs Right visualised
Oct 26th, 2009
This big old visualisation from the accurately named informationisbeautiful.net really sums up the reason there are problems trying to satisfy such different mindsets. Though I’m a sucker for information visualisation I should disclose. Data and concepts such as this can (and should) be interesting. As an aside, here’s a TED talk showing some pretty funky [...]
False advertising: “Jesus. All about life.” campaign
Oct 19th, 2009
The “Jesus all about life” Campaign (JAAL) is making some dodgy claims in its advertising.
Give her a medal: Demanding education AND respect
Oct 2nd, 2009
A 13 year old girl named Rekha in India has put her foot down on the shameful actions of her parents in trying to push her into an arranged marriage against her will because she wants an education.
An animal that wants to be eaten?
Sep 8th, 2009
Gotta love when we take a step closer to a prediction in a science fiction book. This step is toward animals who want to be eaten (thanks Douglas Adams). Well, that’s not completely accurate, but it is roughly along the lines of “The Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy” in which the dilemma for vegetarians is [...]
Pope writes to fight greed, signs with gold pen
Jul 10th, 2009
I’ve ranted against the hypocrisy of the pope before (why does the Pope need bullet proof popemobile?) but I was appalled at the gall of this stupid man in his latest outpouring of religious garbage (official release here). Before I talk about the contents, which are in part to do with the need for ethics [...]
