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Atheists often get accused of intolerance and disrespect for saying things like, “I don’t agree with you,” “I think you’re mistaken,” “What evidence do you have to support that?”, “I think your reasoning is flawed, and here’s why.” Criticizing ideas is not the same as attacking people — and religious ideas are no exception.
Greta Christina
 
to have Congress mandate broadcast radios in portable devices, including mobile phones, is the height of absurdity.

Radio Broadcasters and RIAA Want To Make FM Chips in Cell Phones Required By Law

Absurd indeed. Why do they want FM radios in everything when there are much better alternatives. Oh, is it because they don’t make much off of those? Why doesn’t the RIAA create their own free music streaming service? Oh, because they’re dinosaurs who don’t understand the web?

 
Vimeo Releases Embeddable HTML5 Video Player

Adrianne Jeffries, writing for ReadWriteWeb:

Vimeo is releasing a ‘universal player’ today that allows user to watch embedded Vimeo videos on mobile devices including the iPhone and iPad using the video playback capability built into the new HTML5 standard.

Awesome!

Also announced is an Instapaper-style feature:

Vimeo also announced a ‘watch later’ button today that will cue videos up in a playlist for users to catch up on when they get home from work.

Excellent! I have a “To Watch” playlist on YouTube for this same purpose, but a quick button click is much easier.

ReBlogged from cameronmoll

 

We’re going to legalize pot, not thuggery. The murderers in Mexico don’t possess a single skill that would give them an advantage in a regulated market. Their only asset is a willingness to break the law, and in the unlikely event that they elected to run a legal business instead, they wouldn’t be criminals anymore. We will control the regulatory process and there’s nothing about marijuana that invites fraud or extortion to any greater extent than every other taxable commodity on the market.

If you’re still not getting this, let me put it another way: Mexican drug cartels don’t sell marijuana because they’re passionate about cannabis culture or botany, or because they love stacking bricks of mid-grade in the back of a pick-up truck. Absolutely the only reason they’re in the marijuana business is because we gave them a monopoly on it. When we take that away from them, they will make less money and their organizations will get smaller.

 

This Barbie is amazing! With a built-in video recorder, she is technically a cyborg. With batteries in her legs.

 
If you care whether the things you believe are true — including religious beliefs — you ought to be willing to subject your beliefs to rigorous testing, and to let go of them if a solid body of evidence contradicts them. And if you don’t care whether the things you believe are true, then don’t try to defend and/or spread those beliefs to others.

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