Yes, I am a month behind on this, but if you haven’t seen Beware the Believers yet, now is your second chance. I’m not sure exactly what side of the Evolution – ID battle the creators of this video support, but don’t miss it. (PZ apparently thinks they are coming down on the side of the good guys – link also has a brief sequel and full credits)
This is why mankind created the Internets
Artists: Sachiko Kodama, Minako Takeno
I’ve been really busy lately. I started a new job on Monday and my wife just started back at school. I probably won’t be updating too often, just whenever I see something cool or have something to say. Anyway, I saw this cool short film on Youtube, Fallen Art:
There is also the creator’s first film, The Cathedral.
Luckily for Stefan, the Stars managed to win in Overtime.
This is one of the coolest ideas I’ve ever heard.
Deciding between the spicy peanut stew and the pesto chicken, or the squash soup and the avocado, chicken, lime soup, are not the only decisions tempting patrons at the One World Café in Salt Lake City and the SAME (So All Might Eat) Café in Denver. They must also decide what the meal is worth.
These pay-as-you-can cafes have missions that are unapologetically altruistic—call it serving up fare Robin Hood style. “Our philosophy is that everyone, regardless of economic status, deserves the chance to eat healthy, organic food while being treated with dignity,” explains Brad Birky, who opened SAME with his wife, Libby, in October. Customers who have no money are encouraged to exchange an hour of service — sweep, wash the dishes, weed the organic garden — for a meal. Likewise, guests who have money are encouraged to leave a little extra to offset the meals of those who have less to give. “We’re a hand up, not a hand out,” says One World owner Denise Cerreta, who prides herself on the fact that everyone can afford a meal at her café.
This isn’t obviously without some risk. The article mentions that a similar restaurant in NYC had to shut down because people were abusing it. I don’t think it is a model that could work everywhere, but in certain cultures this is a great idea.
And speaking of Time magazine, let me be the latest to state that their choice for Person of the Year was a total cop out.
“In space, if unprotected pieces of metal touch each other, they stick together permanently.”
Tip of the hat to Auxiliary to the World
NASA photographs have revealed bright new deposits seen in two gullies on Mars that suggest water carried sediment through them sometime during the past seven years.
“These observations give the strongest evidence to date that water still flows occasionally on the surface of Mars,” said Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, Washington.
Lyrics:
We think we’re heroes, we think we’re kings We plan all kinds of fabulous things Oh look how great we have become
Key in the door, the moment I’ve been longing for Before my bag hit the floor My adorable children rush up screaming for a kiss And a story they’re a gift to this world My only claim to glory I surely never knew sweeter days Blows my mind like munitions I’m amazed
So much heaven, so much hell So much love, so much pain So much more than I thought this world could ever contain So much war, so much soul Moments lost, moments go So much more than I thought this world can ever hold
We’re just children, we’re just dust We are small and we are lost And we’re nothing, nothing at all
One bomb, the whole block gone Can’t find me children and dust covers the sun Everywhere is noise, panic and confusion But to some another fun day in Babylon I’m gonna bury my wife and dig up my gun My life is done so now I got to kill someone
So much heaven, so much hell So much love, so much pain So much more than I thought this world could ever contain So much war, so much soul Moments lost, moments go So much more than I thought this world could ever hold
So much more than I thought this world could ever hold So much more than I thought this world could ever hold
So much heaven, so much hell So much love, so much pain So much more than I thought this world could ever contain So much war, so much soul Moments lost, moments go So much more than I thought this world could ever hold
