Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
About one week ago a whole new batch of web suffixes were made available and so the opportunity to screw up has been extended. Supposedly as part of this process a UK-based internet registrar highlighted their top 10 disasters and suggested that unless you think carefully about it, you might end up attracting a very different, unwanted audience. (Yes OK, … Read more
As I’m sure you are already aware, an Indonesian non-believer called Alexander Aan was sentenced to 2.5 years in jail for posting “God doesn’t exist” on his Facebook page apparently because under Indonesian law, not believing in God is illegal. Well, there is a nice article in the Christian Post about an effort to help … Read more
Pirate Bay has been formally blocked in the UK by all the ISPs (BT, O2, Sky, Virgin Media etc…). They have done so for legal reasons, a High Court ruling in April directed them to do so. So now of course nobody can access the Pirate Bay from the UK and so their UK traffic … Read more
This I love … over on Pharyngula PZ gives a very nice sequence of events that illustrates an example of a Douchebag of epic proportions … truly hilarious. The brief summary is … oh heck no, I’ll not spoil the fun, just go read it. You can also read more about it here. Least you wonder, … Read more
The news is that the Equality Network (a group that works for equality and human rights in Scotland) commissioned Ipsos-MORI to survey Scottish attitudes towards marriage and found that of 1,003 people asked, 64 percent supported the idea of allowing gay and straight couples an equal right to marry. Hey, that’s quite good news. Ah but not everybody thinks … Read more
A team of smart folks in Japan have found a mathematical model for the ‘hit’ phenomenon in entertainment. It basically uses the advertisement budget time distribution and also word-of-mouth (WOM) to work things out. Oh wait, how the heck do you measure WOM? Well they went for the number of posts on social network systems such as … Read more