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« January 2006 | HOME | March 2006 » February 2006 How to defeat SmartFilter Pass around: BOING BOING'S GUIDE TO DEFEATING CENSORWARE... February 28, 2006 Amsterdam wrap-up KLM is a great airline except for their policy of allowing children on their airplanes. On my flight back yesterday there were two children behind me, a little boy and a little girl, both around two or five or ten... February 28, 2006 Amsterdam up to now Damn it's cold damn it's cold damn it's cold damn it's cold damn it's cold damn it's cold damn it's cold damn it's cold damn it's cold damn it's cold damn it's cold damn it's cold damn it's cold damn... February 25, 2006 Denial Austria figures out how to make a martyr of the odious David Irving, and, as one would expect, The Raving Atheist has the best take on it. It's a stretch, but further explained by TRA in comment #8. (It appears... February 23, 2006 Weather update Oh, and that temperature? That's also pretty much the temperature inside my hotel room, as it currently has no working heat.... February 22, 2006 Weather phenomenon The high today is 39 degrees. The low is 26 degrees. The current temperature is 16 degrees.... February 22, 2006 The plane ride to Amsterdam Q: What kind of person would be inconsiderate enough to bring a 4-year-old child on an airplane, subjecting all the passengers on board to 10 hours of on-and-off screaming and crying? A: The kind of person who would be inconsiderate... February 21, 2006 Right-wing bloggers concede That media storylines favor the right.... February 20, 2006 "What's Up, Dick?" (Via email. Thanks, JL.)... February 18, 2006 Julia Sweeney's "Letting Go of God" I finally met Julia Sweeney at the Darwin Day celebration last Sunday at CFI West. She was the rousing final performer in the 18-hour marathon reading of The Origin of Species. And this week I finally saw Julia's current show,... February 17, 2006 "Who Are the Moderate Muslims?" Sam. UPDATE: See Sam Harris on Book TV: This Sunday (2/19) 11:20 PM (Eastern), 8:20 PM (Pacific) CSPAN 2... February 16, 2006 Indie film distribution Lots of stuff on the Web this week about indie film distribution and exhibition. Self-Reliant Filmmaking links to this All These Wonderful Things post. And Mike Curtis writes about the theatrical experience. And today's new L.A. Weekly has a story... February 16, 2006 Chappaquiddick vs. Cheney shooting In July 1969, Sen. Edward "Ted" Kennedy drove a car off a bridge and into a river. He survived, but his passenger, Mary Joe Kopechne, drowned. Sen. Kennedy was seen drinking in the hours before the accident, but a reliable... February 16, 2006 The American religion I don't write much about America's greatest original religion: According to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, an angel named Moroni led Joseph Smith in 1827 to a divine set of golden plates buried in a hillside near... February 16, 2006 Neo-Darwinism Now that intelligent design advocates have suffered a decisive loss, the next strategy is apparently to insist that while ID may not be science, science isn't science either. That "theory of natural selection"? It's actually a left-wing philosophy called "Neo-Darwinism"!... February 15, 2006 Josh Olson My pal Josh Olson, screenwriter of A History of Violence, outside the recent Writers Guild of America awards.... February 15, 2006 The Actors' Gang does Orwell's "1984" Actor and Bat Boy co-author Keythe Farley writes to let me know about the Actors' Gang's stage production of George Orwell's 1984 here in L.A. Keythe is in it, and Tim Robbins is directing: Imagine a world where people fear... February 15, 2006 Why did Cheney refuse to see the police for 14 hours? Why the mainstream media apparently considers this obvious angle off limits is beyond me: This belongs completely in the realm of speculation, but it is speculation based on my own experiences as a criminal lawyer. Why would a media-savvy... February 15, 2006 "Pro-theocracy" Some people took issue with this line in a December The God Who Wasn't There press release: The movie has been praised by critics but condemned by pro-theocracy groups such as James Dobson’s Focus on the Family. "Pro-theocracy," they alleged,... February 14, 2006 Rank has its privileges A man who in the past has been twice convicted of driving while intoxicated is involved in a hunting accident. This twice-DUI-convicted man shot one of his companions while engaging in a clearly unsafe action--wheeling around 180 degrees with his... February 13, 2006 True colors A TPM Cafe commenter on Cheney's failure to take responsibility for his shot: I've been hunting for over 25 years and one thing I've never even heard of is a hunter who clipped somebody in his party and wasn't man... February 13, 2006 On the radio tonight Just scheduled an interview on KABC tonight at 7 pm PT. I'll be talking with Al Rantel about The God Who Wasn't There. Streaming audio link here.... February 13, 2006 The Beastles Anyone know where I can get this? The Boing Boing links are already dead. New album of Beatles/Beasties mashups - drop-dead awesome! dj BC has released a second album of "Beastles" (Beatles/Beastie Boys) mashups called Let It Beast. dj BC... February 13, 2006 The church of conservatism Some truly insightful writing recently by Glenn Greenwald, who looks at Bush supporters--who many, including I, might unthinkingly label the "conservative movement"--as a cult devoted to a leader, not a group held together by shared ideas about government. It's a... February 13, 2006 "The God Who Wasn't There" interview David Ian Miller writes a weekly feature for the San Francisco Chronicle called "Finding My Religion." This week he finds me and The God Who Wasn't There: Do you really think this film will change anyone's minds? I know for... February 13, 2006 Darwin Day Julia Sweeney, Robert Forster, a gorilla and a monkey.... February 12, 2006 Violent religious fanatacism Believe it or not, there is a school right here in the U.S. that teaches young Muslim children how to engage in combat, including deadly combat, with Islam's perceived "enemies." This is from the course descriptions in the official literature... February 12, 2006 Mouths of babes Yesterday morning Beyond Belief Media had a guest visiting the office, a 13-year-old from France. While she was here, I opened a package that had just arrived in the mail, a review copy of the book When News Lies: Media... February 11, 2006 They need these stinking badges Arthur Silber says to the right-wing warbloggers: It's hard to take you seriously about freedom of the press now, when you took the opposite position less than a year ago. How quickly they forget. Still, in the warbloggers' defense, their... February 09, 2006 Daniel Dennett Salon interview with Daniel Dennett: The political consequences of undermining faith are monumental, spurring riots and killings around the world. Are you -- is science -- willing to take responsibility for these deadly outcomes? We cannot let any group, however... February 08, 2006 Sam Harris on the Muhammad cartoons Sam Harris, insightful as always, writes in truthdig.com about the Muhammad cartoons: Let us take stock of the moral intuitions now on display in the House of Islam: On Aug. 17, 2005, an Iraqi insurgent helped collect the injured survivors... February 08, 2006 Dan Savage on America At the Onion A.V. Club: DS: It's a terribly perilous moment. Like I said, we can't be Pollyanna, we have to be vigilant, and we have to have a divided government again, so there's some limit on the powers of... February 07, 2006 "The President has a pre-1776 world view" Sen. Feingold: This administration reacts to anyone who questions this illegal program by saying that those of us who demand the truth and stand up for our rights and freedoms somehow has a pre-9/11 world view. In fact, the President... February 07, 2006 Rational Response Squad You get $500 if you can prove Jesus existed.... February 05, 2006 Darwin Day As I blogged about before, CFI West will be staging a complete reading of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species, to celebrate Darwin Day on February 12. I will be reading from one of the last chapters, sometime between 3... February 03, 2006 A fact I didn't know Chet Baker was a "rock star." (Via LA.comfidential, which almost seems suspicious about the study's methodology.)... February 02, 2006 RED camera Mike Curtis scores an interview with Jim Jannard.... February 01, 2006 One soul, mint condition Bid now. (via TRA)... February 01, 2006

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