Report: Ohio teacher burned cross on kids’ arms Freshwater used a science tool known as a high-frequency generator to burn images of a cross on students’ arms in December, the report said. Freshwater told investigators he simply was trying to demonstrate the device on several students and described the images as an “X,” not a […]
Tag Archives: Culture
Mara Triangle
May I recommend that you subscribe to the blog Mara Triangle? It’s written by a cat named Joseph Kimojino, who is the head of tourism and anti-animal harassment for the Mara Conservancy. The Mara Triangle is part of the Masai Mara reserve in Kenya, and Kimojino blogs about his team’s efforts to keep poachers (who […]
Teach The Controversy, part 3
Teach The Controversy, Part 2
Teach The Controversy
Words Fail Me
If you need an explanation of what might not be quite historically accurate about this, well…I’ll let Bill explain it: [Update: Apparently, this is a trend!]
Science!
I’m pretty much finished with the ironic t-shirts. But this is different. If you love me, buy me this t-shirt:
Trustafarianism
Art students on the future of money – Boing Boing The article this links to is pretty good, but it was the title that hit me with the giggles. ‘Cause if you want to know about the future of money, art students are totally the people to ask. What? “Art students on the future of […]
On the GMF and the Singularity
Here’s something I wrote on Whitechapel, Warren Ellis’s message board, in the context of a discussion about the Singularity that I started. I thought it would be worth posting here, as it explains some of my earlier thoughts. My whole point with the Grim Meathook Future thing was that, despite what us nerds would like […]
Even More William Shatner Goodness
This made me grin today.