Atheism … Marcus Aurelius’ thoughts

Fingertip free fall (pik)

Awesome photo

The “Anonymous” group hacks Monsanto’s website

Way to go! In a thread of hack events from the Anonymous group, the most recent target has been Monsanto.com. Anonymous, which briefly knocked the FBI and Justice Department websites offline as well as Music Industry websites in retaliation for the US shutdown of file-sharing site Megaupload, is a shadowy group of international hackers. Here’s [...]

When a redneck wins the lottery

Describe your sex life with a movie title

New USDA plant hardiness zone map reveals the US is getting warmer

More evidence that global warming is taking place — most of the U.S. is a little warmer than it was 20 years ago. On Wednesday, the Department of Agriculture unveiled what most gardeners have known for years: a new plant hardiness zone map that shows generally warmer low temperatures for winter than the department’s previous [...]

Fractal blue pik

Intriguing. cr: Sam Haozous

Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie died in the same month of the exact same year.

Thank you, Dennis, for creating the programming language that every single one of us every time we use our computers!

Go ahead to the moon, Newt, and while you’re at it, take your alien wife!

The condensed version of the modern Republican Party’s philosophy

As a dedicated observer of the American political scene, let me condense the modern Republican Party’s philosophy: no one should ever pay taxes because we really don’t need a government because it mostly gives useless social services to the people in this country who don’t matter much anyway. That’s pretty much it isn’t it? J.S.