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There are persons out there who think the bible is a good source of information about admirable things to do. There's that account of Abraham,...
Aren't there enough already? Well, no, not enough. For ages and ages women were 2nd class citizens (still are, in some countries); various...
No, not Twittersqueak. Animated gifs. At the moment they're not even pronounceable, let alone spellable, making an new challenge for...
Well, the bible isn't going to help much trying to answer that: the entity it portrays as god is sometimes vile, demonic, stupid, vindictive and...
Whether it's laziness or the alleged rigors of having a life (lousy excuse if so) Amm0 has been seriously remiss the past several weeks - months...
I fell asleep at the computer the other day, not the world's most singular event. At some point my dream involved swinging a hammer to pound a...
Weak compression on two cylinders, more than 20 years of elapsed time and a bottom spark plug drowing in oil were enough to make us write a check...
People will stand in line to buy a ticket for a multi-mega-million payout but ignore lotteries with only 7 or 8 figure payouts, even though even...
Well, dying, anyway. In Sweden, Cash Is King No More I didn't know cash was only 7% of the US economy; I'd've guessed about 33%. I'm glad...
What is it with US auto manufacturers that they can't grasp that reliability matters? 8 out of the 10 afflicted vehicles below are Detroit's iron....
At a very young age I was instructed, when putting rings onto pistons, to align the gaps 180 degrees opposed from ring to ring so as to keep...
Here're fixed wing airplanes proving you don't need the mechanical nightmare of a helo to operate from a field the size of a postage stamp. The...
Let's say you had a stash of crisp, new 100 dollar bills, unwrinkled, so if stacked on the table they'd make a compact brick. Turn the brick on...
I've long wondered at the excess of brutality that suffuses the policing branch of our criminal justice apparatus, but never suspected it...
One of the problems with airplane pilots is if they fill up with beer at a Xmas party they can't fly and so wind up standing (teetering) next to...
amm0's on a thankless thanks mission, hitting the thanks buttons 1000 times a day until his penance is complete (don't ask what he's atoning for,...
From the BBC, an interactive graphic depicting just how deadly our favorite mode of daily tranportation is. In a dozen years it appears there...
As housepets they have many advantages over some of the more conventional pets kept in many homes (silverfish, crickets, etc): Caring for a Pet...
Ours is a deeply materialist culture, nurtured by the high powered accelerator of advanced Madison Ave science. If there is one dominant hallmark...
If there's a god (or gods), can science find it (or them)? Now, there are as many different descriptions/definitions of god as the total number...
