GodTube.com - a collection of oddities.

I know plenty of sane and reasonable Christians. Heck, I'd like to hope that the majority of them are. But GodTube.com shows a more tarnished picture: created just last year, as a rival to YouTube, to anyone with half an ounce of common sense it's clear that most of its occupants are trying to make […]

Neuromancer - Hayden Christensen to play Case.

Yet another peice of depressing news about the Neuromancer film in development. And I was just getting over the fact that Kahn is the director. (I've come to the opinion that people should be giving Kahn a break. He has enough talent to make this film work.)
From 7artspictures.com
"Based on William Gibson’s seminal cyberpunk novel, […]

Cats, a man's best friend.

My cat is sitting on the chair next to me, watching me type away.

I live in a family of four, we have one cat and one dog. The reason eludes me, but the cat, Sappho, has always been very close to me, while the dog has been distant. When people talk about dogs being a man's best friend, it always confuses me: my dog shows little regard for humans, with his tendency to deposite enough hair in a week to render most of the carpets invisible, his constant desire for food - more often than not my food - and his unescapable need to empty his bowels every day, which one of us or all of us must bear witness to on his daily walks. When he begs for food, half of the time he decides it smelled nicer than it tastes, and he coughs it up onto the floor. When he wants to leave a room, he doesn't even attempt to open the door when it is already slightly ajar. And when we are in close proximity, I normally end up with a sticky coating of saliva on my trousers.

Having a dog - or more specifically, having my dog - meets none of the prerequisites of a friendship.

Google, also an impressive calculator, apparently

Google has surprised me again. I've always known you can search for 'Speed of Light' and before the results google will give you the answer. But it turns out you can enter pretty much any equation and be given the result straight off:

It gets better: if you use Firefox 2 or have the Google toolbar, […]

Why arguing about religion is futile

Over the past few months the number of arguments, debates and discussions I've had on religion has been exponential - since I decided to fully reject the idea of a god, it seems like the opportunities arrive daily. And, god (no pun intended) it ain't easy. Hitler was a Christian … Stalin was an atheist. I'm sick of hearing those two names. The first thing people have to realise is that in their purest forms, neither religion nor atheism promotes immoral behaviour. As someone who has spent a large part of their life as a Christian, I'd define the fundamental nature of each as follows.

My Top Five Live Bands

Through my life I've seen a whole load of live bands, from festivals to concert halls. Although I count myself fairly lucky, there are so many I haven't yet seen and heard in the flesh - but for now, here's my five favourite live performances, over the past ten or so years.
NINE INCH NAILS […]

Please, Celebrities, Stop Exposing Yourselves …

I moderate a forum on a different site, and lately we've been having a spam problem. Each new captcha or human verification we add just triggers whoever writes these bots to work around it, sometimes in a matter of days. It's an incredibly popular site to begin with, so adding admin verification would be impractical.

There […]

The Nine Billion names of God

Arthur C. Clarke wrote a classic SF short story in the 1950s called The Nine Billion names of God, in which he discusses a computer designed and built for a Buddhist monastery to calculate the billions of possible names possible for God, using the entirety of the possible combinations of available characters.
"We use a special […]

Using Eventscripts to mod CS Source

 
My last article detailed how to write a very simple mod for Counter Strike Source servers; here, I plan to go into more detail. I will assume basic knowledge of Python, and an understanding of how to create a simple addon on your source server - essentially I plan to discuss Eventscripts' API and features.
Userids
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Is Your Email Safe?

It surprises me that there is not more fraud on the internet. In fact, it's enough to give a renewed faith in the majority people that run their own websites.
I'm a student, and in my spare time I do some web design, and some coding - among other things. I'd consider myself fairly adept at […]