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Spark: Training

July 22nd, 2008 · by xJane · No Comments

I’m sorry for all the sparks recently, but I couldn’t resist this one. Enjoy!

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Tags: Art · Atheism · Belief · Bible · Christianity · Comics · Creativity. · Fiction · Getting over Religion · Gods · Humor · Pop Culture · Religion · Satire · Skeptic · Spiritual Progressives · Spirituality · Undead

Spark: Proselytizing Hits Home

July 15th, 2008 · by xJane · 3 Comments

Or, When Muslims Attack (with free copies of the Koran!).
Sorry I’ve been AWOL recently, I’m in the process of moving. I now have internet (yay!1!) but now need to unpack all the boxes of stuff. Then, I promise, real posts.

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Tags: Activism · Belief · Christianity · Classic · Dialog · Fiction · Getting over Religion · Humor · Islam · Links · Religion · Spark

Spark: Google Stats

July 10th, 2008 · by xJane · 2 Comments

A legal team attempting to defend their client against (among other things) “obscenity” charges is trying to get Google to release certain stats about search terms in the area the trial is taking place. This is because part of the “obscenity” definition relies upon what “the average person, applying contemporary community standards” would find obscene. […]

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Tags: Current Events · Humor · Justice · Law · Links · News · Pop Culture · Sexuality · Spark · Web 2.0

How Science should be Taught

May 21st, 2008 · by John · 2 Comments

Also, if YouTube suddenly went down, 68% of worldwide blog content posted in 2008 would instantly evaporate.
h/t to Friendly Atheist

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Tags: Humor · Science · Video

Gitmo Medical Center.

May 2nd, 2008 · by John · 9 Comments

We just received the happy news that Jana is free to go after her little encounter with her friends the drug-resistant bacteria and modern medicine’s to beat them back. While I could kiss Jana’s doctors and Sir Alexander Fleming on his mouldering lips (if I got infected, there’s always anti-biotics!), there are certainly happier […]

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Tags: Humor · Personal · Photos

Top Ten Reasons I’m Going To Hell

March 4th, 2008 · by xJane · 8 Comments

Actually, there’s only one reason: I find this absolutely hysterical!

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Tags: Atheism · Belief · Humor

Why I Read Comics

February 18th, 2008 · by John · 2 Comments

Because they compact revelations into a glance.  This one’s called “How it Works”:

This comic is more eloquent than any treatise I can write on the power of stereotypes (and of sexism in particular). I’m thinking of how many times someone’s annoyed me with their going 45mph down the 405.  As I pass them, I glance […]

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Tags: Comics · Feminism · Humor

We’ve Started Something

February 16th, 2008 · by xJane · 5 Comments

First, there was John’s dabbling in mapping lolCats onto traditional religious images. Then, the folks over at Cracked gave us some awesome lolReligion interspersed in their 10 Things Christians and Atheists Can Agree On (scroll down for the lolDog in need of a Catholic exorcism). But it didn’t stop there, oh no! Someone linked John […]

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Tags: Art · Atheism · Belief · Bible · Christianity · Gods · Humor · Links · Media and Design · Meme · Pop Culture · Religion · Satire · lolCats

It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Super Delegate!

February 6th, 2008 · by John · 3 Comments

If we were to freeze the Democratic nomination process right now (it’s hard not to think about how this might happen–maybe Dick Cheney engineers a virus that targets only Democrats and Ralph Nader), who would win?
As of my 9am tea break this morning, CNN and Wikipedia (not sure which is more reliable) report that Obama […]

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Tags: Humor · Politics

Hint: In Britain, Pants = Underwear

January 9th, 2008 · by John · 1 Comment

This essay on the shrunken state of womens’ knickers proves that Brits still reign supreme when it comes to humor:
Women’s tiny pants have massive ramifications for us as a nation. It cannot have gone unnoticed that our global power has waned in tandem with the waning of our pants. When women wore undergarments that extended […]

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Tags: Feminism · Humor