I can’t tell you how exhilarated I am tonight after watching Richard Dawkins’ two-part DVD “The Root Of All Evil?“. For years I have become increasingly uncomfortable with the feeling that I should just accept christianity as a reasonable viewpoint. Particularly as my boys grow up, I find it unreasonable that they should be told [...]
Check out this brilliant animation about how Superman should have ended. Very clever stuff.
… BILL HICKS!
Watch as Bill loses it at a woman in the audience who tells him he sucks. Get the backstory and the mp3s here. Thanks to Warrick Alldridge for the link! My little baby sister Nita gave me this biography on Bill for Xmas.
Today my guests are TPN’s host of The Atomic Show, Rod Adams, and we’re very honoured to have with us again the Wisconsin Secretary of State, Doug La Follette.
**I want to apologize straight off for the poor sound quality. Despite a soundcheck, my mic settings were way off and I’ve done the best I can [...]
Yeah yeah… I can hear what you’re saying.. “Don’t tell me he’s going to try another format change which will last a week and then he’ll forget…”.
Well maybe. But you can’t blame a guy for trying.
So here’s what I think I’m going to try to do in 2007.
Starting Jan 1st, I’m going to [...]
I caved in late last week and picked up a new mobile phone: the Dopod 838 Pro aka the HTC Hermes and the HTC TyTN.
I dumped my previous carrier (Optus) in favour of 3. Here’s my quick review of the phone after 5 days of intense playing around.
LIKES:
it has wifi
I’m loving reading [...]
Maybe he couldn’t find Clive Owen when he needed him.
Speaking of deals with the devil… Happy Festivus. By the way, here’s the background on why we have celebrations this time of year, just in case some of you out there still think it has something to do with a little Jewish baby whose followers [...]
Dec 20, 2006, was Carl Sagan Day, the 10th anniversary of the death of one of history’s great scientists and communicators. He touched hundreds of millions of people with his work, his books and his TV series “Cosmos”. Joel Schlosberg organised the Sagan Blogathon and many people wrote about the impact Sagan had on their [...]
As yesterday (Dec 20) was the anniversary of Carl Sagan’s death, I think it’s fitting that tonight we discuss his life and contributions to humanity. If you want to join me on the show, then let me know in the comments section below. We’ll kick-off about 9.30pm AEDT. Check out the shownotes here. I remember [...]
Ewan has the news:
A massive big congrats to Thom Allen, host of The Podcast Network’s Jazz Show. It’s just been listed as one of the Best Podcasts of 2006 by the Staff at iTunes:
Just glancing at the other nominated podcasts, the list includes This American Life (NPR), The South Bank Show podcast and The National [...]
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