There’s no way in he’ll that this is a portion for one. Even Katy said she wouldn’t be able to do it. Hummingbird bakery FTW!
Tag: potd2014
A victim of modern technology
I just tried to pinch zoom a paper tube map to make the writing bigger. Seriously. FAIL!
Religion is a personal issue, and it should stay that way
Mr Cameron said earlier this month, in an article for the Church Times, that Christians should be “confident” in standing up to defend their values.
The prime minister also spoke of his faith in his Easter message, saying he found “peace” in Christianity.
Referring to a 2011 speech in which he made his comments about Christianity, the Downing Street spokeswoman said: “As the PM set out in his speech to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, the UK is a Christian country and should not be afraid to say so.
This is particularly worrisome, especially after seeing how GWB’s US cabinet was essentially a prayer circle, pushing a fundamentalist-like Christian agenda. We saw how well that went. Fundies, of any flavour, scare me. It’s impossible to have a rational debate with someone whose answer is “because God says so”. When the person using that argument is the leader of the country… I still remember being horrified when Dubya said he was doing God’s work. Now, Cameron is calling himself an agent of God. Don’t get me wrong, I have no issues with his faith. The issues I have are with him using his position and influence to push it into the public eye, where it doesn’t belong.
In a letter to the Telegraph, scientists, authors and academics have voiced their concerns in a, IMHO, well written rebuke to Cameron:
Most Britons are not Christians
SIR – We respect the Prime Minister’s right to his religious beliefs and the fact that they necessarily affect his own life as a politician. However, we object to his characterisation of Britain as a “Christian country” and the negative consequences for politics and society that this engenders.
Apart from in the narrow constitutional sense that we continue to have an established Church, Britain is not a “Christian country”. Repeated surveys, polls and studies show that most of us as individuals are not Christian in our beliefs or our religious identities.
Constantly to claim otherwise fosters alienation and division in our society. Although it is right to recognise the contribution made by many Christians to social action, it is wrong to try to exceptionalise their contribution when it is equalled by British people of different beliefs. This needlessly fuels enervating sectarian debates that are by and large absent from the lives of most British people, who do not want religions or religious identities to be actively prioritised by their elected government.
Professor Jim Al-Khalil
Philip Pullman
Tim Minchin
Dr Simon Singh
Ken Follett
Dr Adam Rutherford
Sir John Sulston
Sir David Smith
Professor Jonathan Glover
Professor Anthony Grayling
Nick Ross
Virginia Ironside
Professor Steven Rose
Natalie Haynes
Peter Tatchell
Professor Raymond Tallis
Dr Iolo ap Gwynn
Stephen Volk
Professor Steve Jones
Sir Terry Pratchett
Dr Evan Harris
Dr Richard Bartle
Sian Berry
C J De Mooi
Professor John A Lee
Professor Richard Norman
Zoe Margolis
Joan Smith
Michael Gore
Derek McAuley
Lorraine Barratt
Dr Susan Blackmore
Dr Harry Stopes-Roe
Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC
Adele Anderson
Dr Helena Cronin
Professor Alice Roberts
Professor Chris French
Sir Tom Blundell
Maureen Duffy
Baroness Whitaker
Lord Avebury
Richard Herring
Martin Rowson
Tony Hawks
Peter Cave
Diane Munday
Professor Norman MacLean
Professor Sir Harold Kroto
Sir Richard Dalton
Sir David Blatherwick
Michael Rubenstein
Polly Toynbee
Lord O’Neill
Dr Simon Singh
Dan Snow
Easter Benjamin
The Easter bunny hid a bunch of eggs for the child but, according to him, didn’t do a good enough job. So now Bean is going around re-hiding all of them (in the same place, or close enough, according to the easter bunny).
Polar Bear, he got the moves!
Getting down with his bad self, dancing to k-pop.
Binging on webcomics :)
It’s been a very long time since I found a new webcomic that I wanted to read from day 1. I have now found 2!!!
Set in Montreal, the finest bohemian city in North America, Ma3 follows the lives of comic book geek, Gary and his way-sexier-than-he-is roommates in their Montreal tight-as-a-sandwich apartment; where the walls are so thin there are virtually no barriers between their rooms.
Eerie Cuties is a comedy horror that follows an array of classic monsters attending Charybdis Heights High School.
And because I’m a technical geek with little patience, I hacked together a java app that will download everything in one fell swoop, so that I can make an ebook to put on my tablet :D
Top 20 replies by programmers when their code doesn’t work…
20. That’s weird…
19. It’s never done that before.
18. It worked yesterday.
17. How’s that possible?
16. It must be a hardware problem.
15. What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?
14. There has to be something funky with your data.
13. I haven’t touched that module in weeks!
12. You must have the wrong version.
11. It’s just some unlucky coincidence.
10. I can’t test everything!
09. THIS can’t be the source of THAT!
08. It works, but it hasn’t been tested.
07. Somebody must’ve changed my code.
06. Did you heck for a virus on your system?
05. Even though it doesn’t work, how does it feel?
04. You can’t use that version on your system.
03. Why would you want to do it that way?
02. What were you doing when you broke it?
01. It works on my machine…
That is *not* a dog
A dog whose eyes can pop out if it sneezes is not a dog.
A dog that can get beaten up by one of our cats is not a dog.
A dog you can smother if you accidentally sit on it is not a dog.
It’s a rat that barks.
The bean is a keen traveller
Makes sense to me
