The Portland Cello Project – Your War

 

Smoosh

 

http://smoosh.bandcamp.com/album/withershins

Astronomy Links, Evolution, Tolerance, ETC

 

Neave Strobe

Neave Planetarium

32 Nearby Stars – ‘a spatial representation of Every Star Within 14 light-years of the Sun.

The Size of Our World

Mind Lab – ‘How is our consciousness connected to the world?’

It Gets Better Project Youtube Channel

Best Made All-Purpose First Aid Kit

Livemocha –‘The World’s Largest Online Language Learning Community’

Why Evolution is True Youtube Channel

Stereomood – Music for moods

 

Nuclear Bombs

 

 

 

100 Best Signs at the Rally to Restore Sanity

TIME TREE – For Finding time of evolutionary divergence

Map of Forest Heights

Secret Powers of Time

Why We Do Dumb or Irrational Things

 

 

Cool Massive Attack Video

 

Massive Attack-Atlas Air-directed by Edouard Salier from edouard salier on Vimeo.

Music Post

 

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

 

http://www.youtube.com/user/893TheCurrent

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

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/user/BATF0RLASHES

 

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

 

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

wikiHow

 

http://www.moillusions.com/2010/08/swimming-fish-optical-illusion.html/swimming_fish_optical_illusion_excelhero-com

Psychological Study: Old People Enjoy Hearing about Young People Being Stupid

http://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page

The Wilderness Downtown

 

Arcade Fire and Google have put together something really interesting.

http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/

Terrible Love

 

Who Pulled the Stake Out of Young Earth Creationism?

 

Tim Minchin – Peace Anthem for Palestine

 

 

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

Atheists

 

http://xkcd.com/774/

Homeopathy

Enter a Post Title Here

Exact Same Image

 Found here

 

Tutorials of Various sorts

-“Access Hulu from Outside the U.S. Without a Proxy Server”  (Didn’t work for me)

-“How to Block TCP/UDP Ports Using IPsec in Windows”

-“How to fix ubuntu 10.04 LTS (lucid) blank Screen at startup”

 

“Star Grid Posters”

http://www.behance.net/Gallery/STAR-GRID-POSTERS/311165

The Muppets on Youtube

 

Good Illusion

 

Sensory Perception is Seriously Flawed

 

Spinning Sihouette Optical Illusion

 

National Geographic

 

 

http://imgfave.com/view/375960

 

Emmy Noether and The Fabric of Reality

 

 

 

 

Jordan Peterson on Reality and the Sacred

 

Adam Savage Presents Problem Solving: How I Do It

 

QUIZ SHOW

“Living in denial: Why sensible people reject the truth”

 

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627606.100-living-in-denial-why-sensible-people-reject-the-truth.html?full=true

Information Junkie

 

Axis of Awesome - 4 Four Chord Song

 

 

QI: David Mitchell on Pascal's Wager - Heaven For Atheists

 

More of David Mitchell at David Mitchell’s Soapbox

 

 

BIG IDEAS - “TVO is Ontario's public educational media organization and a trusted source of interactive educational content that informs, inspires, and stimulates curiosity and thought.”

Home Libraries Provide Huge Educational Advantage - “Will your child finish college? The answer may be as close as your bookshelves, or lack thereof.”

Conversations from the Pale Blue Dot – A very good podcast geared towards discussions on the philosophy of religion.

you aint no picasso – A music blog.

we are hunted – The 99 most popular emerging songs.

Antenna – Adobe Air application for finding radio station.

Creation Generation – Good for a laugh.  Or a cry.  Or both.  I’m not sure if this is an example of someone being a charlatan or just delusional.

16 Foot Scale Model of Noah’s Ark – More laughing and crying.

What is Stephen Harper Reading? – Because we all know our prime minister is such a patron of the arts.

Smack Stephen Harper – Tasteless and pointless, but surprisingly cathartic.

Pencil vs Camera – Pretty much what it sounds like really.

NASA Space Station – A guide to finding the space station in the sky at your location.

 

 http://imgfave.com/view/118658

Not a Spiral

 

This is not a spiral

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/04/this_is_not_a_spiral.html

 

 

Why Can’t I Own a Canadian?

ReadyMade: Instructions for Everyday Life

FAKE SCIENCE

http://fakescience.tumblr.com/

Eyjafjallajökull

 

Boing Boing

Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull - May 1st and 2nd, 2010 from Sean Stiegemeier on Vimeo.

Impossible Motion

 

 

“Top 10 finalists in the 2010 Contest”

 

 

Other Illusions

Rotating Illusion

Where’s the Ball?

 

 

Michael Specter: The danger of science denial

 

 

TED

Playlist

 

 

 

 

Archival Link Dump

 

Sociological Images: “Seeing is Believing is designed to encourage all kinds of people to exercise and develop their sociological imagination by presenting brief sociological discussions of compelling and timely imagery that spans the breadth of sociological inquiry.”

The Burden of Proof: How Atheism Has Adopted a Worldview That Science Never Intended

Wide Open Spaces: finding beauty in the basics

Snopes: Urban Legends Reference Pages

Home Toolbox Essentials: Skill Set

Altoids Survival Kit

Curiosity Aroused

Dead by Mistake

Window Farms

 

YOUTUBE

 

Stephen Fry on Catholicism, from the Intelligence Squared debate.

Canada Explained: Rick Mercer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY

Evolutionary psychology controversy: Wiki Article

Darwin on the Mind Evolutionary psychology is in fashion-but is any of it true? Jeremy C. Ahouse and Robert C. Berwick

Edge

Evolution of the Mind: 4 Fallacies of Psychology (Had to do some google tricks to see the full article.)

OTHER RANDOM STUFF

 

SOFTWARE

Seamlessly Run Linux Apps on Your Windows Desktop

Run Windows Apps Seamlessly Inside Linux

Build an inexpensive Ikea NAS/Computer

25 Cross-platform games

Top 25 Linux Games

50 Linux Themes for Gnome

Boxee Repo

LiveBrush

Install KDE 4.4 RC 2 on Ubuntu 9.10

List of portable software

Chromium Project: Early Access Release Channels

Alternative To: Alterative to Windows, Linux and Apple Software

Customize.org

Synergy-plus

Sharing Folders with VirtualBox

How to Access the BBC iPlayer

Mozilla Firefox Cheat Sheet

MUSIC/IMAGES

Moodstream

6 Free White Noise Sites To Relax Or Set Yourself To Sleep

Deviant Art

Fecal Face

Them Thangs

 

WALLPAPER

Wallbase

Brilliant Stand-up Comedy Line

 

“When I was a kid I had an  imaginary  friend and I used to think that he went everywhere with me, and that I could talk to him and that he could hear me, and that he could grant me wishes and stuff. And then I grew up, and I stopped going to church.”

Jimmy Carr

Charlie Chaplin Optic Illusion

“Does Evolution Explain Human Nature?”

 

xkcd

 

http://xkcd.com/