Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal

Fairy Tale of New York

My favourite new Christmas song.

SONGS OF PRAISE (WITH SUBTITLES)

 

 

BBC6 Adam and Joe Show

http://www.youtube.com/user/AdamBuxton

Man and Whale

 

A great picture from National Geographic.

"The Atlas of the Real World"

 

"The Atlas of the Real World uses software to depict the nations of the world, not by their physical size, but by their demographic importance on a range of subjects. Here, we select a series of travel- and news-related maps."

Sinfest

 

http://www.sinfest.net/

Cue the Apathy

 

A list from http://www.downloadsquad.com/ of non-partisan American political fact checking sites.

http://www.factcheck.org/

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2007/09/about_the_fact_checker.html

Just Testing Something

 

Discover Rachael Yamagata!

Link Dump

 

-BBC History - Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by right-wing American businessmen

-Thirteen Useful Math Cheat Sheets

-Now Public - Crowd Covered Media

-Racy Political Propaganda

Volkswagon 'Toy Story' - See Films Differently

London

 

Some very nice images of the city.

Nine Images

 

Found on a Russian Warez Blog.  (I'm tidying up my bookmarks.)

 

Nations That Don't Use The Metric System

 

Image: Map of Nations that don't use The Metric System

Sigur Ros - Gobbledigook (Live With Bjork at Naturra)

 

The Brain as explained by John Cleese

Freestyle Rap Battle Translated

 

List of problems solved by MacGyver

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_problems_solved_by_MacGyver

"Stats On How I Will Probably Die"

 

Image yoinked from here.

 

I Kissed A Girl...And I Liked It!

 

A curious image.

Olivia, Explorer.

A Curious List of Quotes

 

"Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."
Benjamin Franklin

 

George Carlin - Religion is bullshit.

Jimmy Carr

 

'Jewish settler attack' on film

 

"Footage from a video camera handed out by an Israeli human rights group appears to show Jewish settlers beating up Palestinians in the West Bank."

The Sceptic's Annotated Bible

 

If you're not tuned in, it's pretty easy to miss things that should make you raise your eyebrows.  Christians certainly would if it was someone else's mythology.

 

"God was angry because "the earth was filled with violence." So he killed every living thing to make the world less violent."

TED - Ideas Worth Spreading

 

Talks List

Augustine on Genesis

 

"Reckless and incompetent expounders of Holy Scripture bring untold trouble and sorrow on their wiser brethren when they are caught in one of their mischievous false opinions and are taken to task by those who are not bound by the authority of our sacred books."

  

“Stop Exporting Asbestos! A Plea to Canadians”

 

"While the Canadian Government takes great care to ensure its own safety against the dangers of asbestos, you’ll probably never hear them make too big a fuss about it — what with Canada being a leading exporter of the patient killer — it just wouldn’t be economical to draw too much attention to it."

Creative Photos

 

http://haha.nu/creative/creative-photos-by-chema-madoz

"All the water and air on earth gathered into spheres and compared to the Earth"

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/11/all-the-water-and-ai.html

Irony and Creationism

 

I'm sure this will provide humour to many over the coming days.

Creationist documentary premiere bars science blogger, accidentally lets in Richard Dawkins

or

So two atheists walk into a movie theater…

Arcade Fire - Neighbourhood #3

 

Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) - Rebellion (Lies)
Uploaded by teharcadefire

Iron and Wine - Boy With a Coin

Iron&Wine - Boy With A Coin
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Boston Dynamics Big Dog

 

Link Dump

 

Woody Guthrie: 'This Machine Kills Fascists'

John Cleese's 'Letter to America'

Top 10 Bizarre Biblical Tales

Left-Handed Presidents

CIA World Fact Book: Country's Account Balances

 Ben Stein: The New Face of Creationism

Dispensational Charts

Essential BBC documentaries not shown on US TV

 

I haven't watched these yet, but putting the link here so I will some day.

12 or 13

 

I'm still trying to figure this one out.

Animator vs Animation

 

The stickman looked like they might win for a while.

Smells Like Teen Spirit - Ukulele Style

 

Photomosaic Illusion

 

 http://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/13/photomosaic-illusion/

Crazy Religious Quotes

 

"Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history. "

Pat Robertson

The World's Happiest Countries

 

"A British researcher merged dozens of statistical metrics to rank nations on the elusive notion of contentment"

Armageddon Days Are Here (Again) By The The

Bill Moyers Journal

 

More American Politics

The Hardest Job on the Planet

 

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