In one of his firmest condemnations since taking over the papacy, Pope Benedict proclaimed today that the Church’s opposition to gay marriage is “non-negotiable,” and that Catholic politicians have the moral obligation to oppose it, in addition to laws on abortion and euthanasia.
The document, called “Apostolic Exhortation,” says that all believers and especially those in [...]
The fact that the Kazakh people are typically the brunt of his jokes doesn’t seem to hit home too hard, as the British arm of online retailer Amazon proclaimed that the DVD of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Most Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan was the most ordered product from Kazakhstan.
“With the controversy [...]
March 12, 2007 – 10:33 pm
More Google Phone rumors surfaced today via the Mobile Burn forums, apparently the information and picture were gathered from an online survey. The rumors contend that the Google Phone will indeed be manufactured by Samsung, and that it will feature many of the standard Google applications: search, Gmail, Maps, Blogger, etc. Furthermore, the specs are [...]
I came across a site called Freelance Tipster that calculates your hourly rate, or rather, what you really deserve to be making per hour. It’s a short questionnaire (5-10 minutes) that asks a series of questions in regards to business type, annual salary, billable hours, overhead and profit. Then, it uses whatever formula is programmed [...]
The Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU) of The Economist magazine has compiled the 2007 Worldwide Cost of Living Survey. The survey is compiled by collecting a snapshot of prices from 177 internationally comparable products/services and sorting them into 10 categories. From this an index score is calculated and compared against the benchmark metric, which is the [...]
OK, I know that most of my readers will either a) not like this clip, or b) not understand it. Nevertheless, for people like Borchers and myself, you know, super geeks, this is pretty amazing and a well-deserved posting.
Without further ado, here is what I’m calling “kill -9″:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fow7iUaKrq4
In the latest show of Middle Eastern online censorship, residents of Turkey who try to visit YouTube are no longer able to. Instead, Turkish internet goers are greeted with a message that when translated into English reads “Access to www.youtube.com site has been suspended in accordance with decision no: 2007/384 dated 06.03.2007 of Istanbul First [...]
The rivalry between Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks can be compared to that of republicans and democrats. OK, maybe it’s not that serious, but each store has their own cult following consisting of millions around the globe. But which one is actually better? Here is my objective-as-possible analysis according to the following categories: drinks, food, service, [...]
I’m not generally a big fan of the online quizzes, but this one caught my eye for some reason. I don’t know what it was that stuck out, probably the name, because most of these things test for how great you are at something, this one tests for how stupid you are (obviously the lower [...]
If you recall I posted a few weeks ago about an asteroid threat that the UN was called on to respond. Building on that, NASA announced today that it doesn’t have the funding available to track all of the potentially dangerous asteroids. It has the know-how and the capability to track them, it just doesn’t [...]