by cameron | Jul 14, 2007 | capitalism, Podcast, Uncategorized
A great example of Christian tolerance in the US senate.
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Chris Pirillo is getting up to speed on the problems inherent in the American system of democracy and capitalism. Interesting to see someone like Chris speaking out about this. Watch the first ten minutes of the video he’s linked to. Chris has just agreed to come on GW for a chat about the issues. Can’t wait!
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We took the kids to the Pixar exhibition and to see the Fantastic four film today. The Pixar exhibition is worth the price of admission just to see the amazing zoetrope! I can’t recommend this enough. I was totally blown away by it and we were all voted it the highlight when we left.
As for the FF film…. well the kids loved it, and I got to watch Jessica Alba for a couple of hours. Can’t complain about that. But you don’t get to see Galactus???? WTF?? They talk about him, he is apparently about to devour Earth (starting with the Thames), the Silver Surfer flies out to confront him, but we don’t get to see him? Majorly disappointing. The film as a whole is as lightweight as the first one. It’s kind of weird to see Michael Chiklis appear a couple of times when Johnny sucks up Ben’s powers – we’ve just finished watching The Shield Season Three on DVD. God I love that show. Anyone out there got Season Four that you could “loan” me?
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Got this email from new listener Holden today, made my morning:
I just started listening to podcasts over the last two months or so. I just wanted to tell you that your Napoleon podcast and the G’day World podcast have been entertaining and educational as I mow lawns all summer up here in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. I’m very glad to learn that there are other people who care about critical thinking and reason, but don’t just stop there, who want to change the world for the better. As I’m going through all the G’day back issues I was struck by #239. You really spoke to me, and even though this is about three months late, thank-you for telling it like it is. I recently went through that sort of re-inventing time. I switched from Christian ministry to the wide undefined world of writing and have never looked back.
Thanks Holden! Great to know I’m not talking into the wind. And it’s great to know that out there, somewhere, there are Christians who are thinking and reading outside of the narrow confines of the religion.
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What’s the best way to keep a documents folder synchronized between two PCs these days? I’m going to be traveling a bit over the next month and I want to have a copy of my documents folder sitting on a portable 80GB USB hard drive to take with me. The way I see it, I have three options:
1. Move all of my documents from the hard drive they currently sit on (a bulky external USB drive attached to my Vista desktop PC) onto the small portable hard drive and just use it as my central documents storage from now on. The only concern I have is losing it while I’m on the road. Of course I can back it up locally before I leave.
2. Just before I leave, put a copy of the documents folder onto the portable drive, work from that while I’m on the road, then copy those documents back to the main drive when I get home.
3. Have some sort of solution that synchronizes the folders between the two drives every time I plug the portable drive back into the desktop. Pre-Vista I used to run Microsoft’s Foldershare but it doesn’t seem to work on Vista.
Recommendations?
UPDATE: I installed Foldershare again just to check it out an apparently it is limited to 10,000 files, so I can’t use it to synch my documents folder. I’m now trying Microsoft Synctoy which looks like it might work. I just need to remember to plug in the portable drive to the desktop when I get back from my trip to synch everything back as I can’t do it over the cloud, which would be ideal.
by cameron | Jul 14, 2007 | Podcast, science vs religion
My guest today is Chris Summerfield. Chris works for Drug Arm WA, writes an intelligent blog called “A Churchless Faith” and recently took me up on my challenge to Christians to answer the question “What would it take for you to become an atheist?”. We talk a little about the striking similarities between the key points in the Jesus myth and the mythologies of other saviour gods such as Horus (3000 BCE), Mithra, etc. We also examine the troubling lack of first-hand eye-witness reports of Jesus (surely someone walking around raising people from the dead would have caused some interest from contemporary scholars) and the fact that the Jesus Seminar concluded that only 18% of the supposed saying of Jesus in the New Testament have any chance of being authentic or original.
The Zeitgeist Movie
Parallels between Jesus and Horus
Jesus and the other God-men are personifications of the Sun
Other saviour gods that pre-date Jesus, such as Mithra, Dionysus and Orpheus
The Jesus Seminar
The Historicity of Jesus
Why Are The Ancient Historians Silent About Jesus?
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by cameron | Jul 13, 2007 | science, Uncategorized
Did anyone register TPN in the Anthill Cool Company awards? Did you get hit with the $59 entry fee? James and Paul sent me an email this morning saying they decided to charge an entry fee after all. I’m wondering if you guys got hit. What do you think about having to pay an entry fee to register a company in some awards program? Legitimate? As James said, it costs them money to run the awards. But then again, they MAKE money from selling the magazine, isn’t this just the cost of coming up with content? What do you think? Should I fork up my hard-earned $59?
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For the Christians out there who like to tell me “there is no evidence to support the theory of evolution” – we have more!
Scientists say they have seen one of the fastest evolutionary changes ever observed in a species of butterfly. The tropical Blue Moon butterfly has developed a way of fighting back against parasitic bacteria.
Six years ago, males accounted for just 1% of the Blue Moon population on two islands in the South Pacific.
But by last year, the butterflies had developed a gene to keep the bacteria in check and male numbers were up to about 40% of the population.
(source)
What kind of bizarre logical backflip are you going to produce to talk your way around this one? I can’t wait to see it….
by cameron | Jul 12, 2007 | environment, Melbourne's Leaders, Podcast
Today it’s again my pleasure to catch up with Dr Peter Ellyard, Australia’s leading futurist. We caught up for lunch in South Yarra today and chatted about why visionaries often feel frustrated with their own progress, the need for a world democracy and how shareholders can use their voting power to effect political change.
G’DAY WORLD #243 – Dr Peter Ellyard (Part Three)
GDAY WORLD #213 – Dr Peter Ellyard, Futurist (Part Two)
GDAY WORLD #204 – Dr Peter Ellyard, Futurist (Part One)
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by cameron | Jul 12, 2007 | Melbourne, Uncategorized
Got this funny email from lil sister Anita:
You’re friggin’ everywhere…I was looking up stationery for work and Googled ‘roller papermate gel II’ to see what it was and the fourth Google entry was this!
Is there anywhere I can go without bumping into you???! Geez!!!!!!
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The issue of B&T Magazine that I wrote an article about podcasting (what else?) in, is apparently out. Jon-Michail called me today to say he had his copy. My article is in the Digital Media insert.
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In the discussion section of my Wikipedia entry, some larrikin has written “After attending the Remix 07 conference in Melbourne i contest this article and believe that it is grossly inaccurate.” WTF??? How could anything I did or said at Remix change anything in the Wikipedia entry? If you are going to slag me off folks, you need to try harder.
by cameron | Jul 12, 2007 | TPN
Are we hip? Fancy? Any other quaint epithets? If so, you might want to nominate us in Anthill Magazines’ Cool Company awards this year. I nearly nominated us last year but they were going to force me to buy an annual subscription to their magazine. This year, the boys assure me they’ve changed the rules. So – if you want to nominate TPN, do so here.
by cameron | Jul 12, 2007 | Uncategorized
Charlie Hastings has made me notable! At least for a few minutes. Any minute now some pre-school kid is going to pull it down, I’m sure of it.
Thanks for sticking up for me Charlie! I owe you a martini.
by cameron | Jul 12, 2007 | Podcast
Today my guests are Andrew and Kevin – an American and a Brit living in Japan – to talk about some current conspiracy theories, including hundreds of “concentration camps” being built in the USA to house ‘unlawful enemy combatants’ and Rex 84, “a plan by the United States federal government to test their ability to detain large numbers of American citizens in case of massive civil unrest or national emergency”.
Here’s some links to scare the pants off of you:
Halliburton’s prison camps in America
Military Commissions Act of 2006
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) Admits Military Commissions Act Vote Was Mistake
NYT: No Habeas Corpus
Kellogg Brown and Root
Civilian prison camps run by the Army
FEMA Camp Footage
The Georgia Guidestones
FEMA’s 911 Concentration Camps
Rex 84
Rumsfeld Sept 10, 2001: The Pentagon cannot account for $2.3 TRILLION
Operation ENDGAME
The Bush Family Crime Chart
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by cameron | Jul 11, 2007 | Christianity, Iran, Uncategorized
Mike Moore gets stuck into Wolf on CNN:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bs_LBXD69w]
(via Chris Pirillo’s twitter)
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Remember Marc Rich? The guy indicted by Guiliani for trading illegally with Iran and tax evasion who then received a Presidential Pardon from Clinton in the last hours of his Presidency because he was a large donor to the Democratic Party? Well guess who his US attorney was from 1985 until 2000? None other than Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the current recipient of Presidential largess. Small world.
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Via CC Chapman:
Another amazing video from Britain Has Talent. Check out this 6 year old girl singing Somewhere Over The Rainbow. Bloody amazing.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En0A8KGMgq8]
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The iPhone is cool but – will it blend?
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg1ckCkm8YI]
Thanks Leslie Nassar!
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Duncan Riley put me onto this online film called Zeitgeist. It’s an examination of the central mythologies of Christianity and showing where they come from. According to the doco, the vast majority of the Jesus stories in the New Testament are direct rip-offs from the story of Horus dating back to 2000BCE.
Check out these similarities. Pretty compelling stuff. Any of the Christians out there have a good answer?
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by cameron | Jul 10, 2007 | Uncategorized
Damn I’m tired today. Went downstairs for a quick nap at 9.30am and woke up two hours later.
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Productivity tip of the day – delete the “Latest News” live feed from Firefox toolbar. I think I checked that 50 times a day. It’s now GONE.
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How do you know that someone in Facebook is real?
I went to add Richard Dawkins to my Facebook friends list today and was writing him an introduction message when I thought – how do I know this is really Dawkins? I stumbled upon his profile in the Atheism group. But how do I know this isn’t some 16 year old kid who created Dawkins’ profile? Is there anyway of telling?
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Anyone else still getting telemarketing calls even though you’re on the Do Not Call register? I actually registered a complaint about one today from “Freedom Escape”, some kind of holiday packages outfit.
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I love what Kimberley from Evolve has done with the magazine I got in the mail today.
Check out the sub-title!
If you want to read the article on the panel that Duncan, Jim and I did, read:
The Lunatics in Charge
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I did a Myers-Briggs test today and it said my personality type is INTP. For some reason, people on Twitter find that hard to believe….
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