This find is thanks to Bec Crew: New Zealand’s Bay Of Plenty Times: A wandering baby fur-seal wriggled through the cat-door of a Welcome Bay house – and made himself at home on the couch. A stunned Annette Swoffer thought she must have been hallucinating when she found the young pup hanging out with her cats in her kitchen on Sunday night. The seal had made its way from the Welcome Bay waterfront, through the suburb’s residential area, across busy… Read more
Round-Up – On Charities To Support And (UK) Skeptic Things To Vote For
December 13, 2011 By Kylie Sturgess 0 Comments
In the aftermath of a blog-post on weird dreams and “What could they mean?!” by Digital Cuttlefish, I had a dream which concluded with my sealing an envelope to send to someone. The message contained was: Dear *****, Thank you very much for your discordance, but I’d like to point out that some of us have to WORK and MAKE A LIVING and possibly GET ON WITH THEIR LIVES during the time that it takes for you to potentially ruin the… Read more
Luis von Ahn: Massive-Scale Online Collaboration – How CAPTCHA Helps
December 12, 2011 By Kylie Sturgess 0 Comments
Thanks to ‘AngryFeet’ for this find! Read more
QI with Ross Noble, Dara O’Briain And Jeremy Clarkson
December 12, 2011 By Kylie Sturgess 0 Comments
I don’t know how long this will be up for… Part two and Part three. “EXPLAINATION OF WHAT’S GOING ON The BBC opted to remove this episode from the schedules on day of broadcast as Clarkson is currently involved in a controversy over remarks he made about recent strikes in the UK on “The One Show” (search YouTube for it). However, the change came so late that the episode was still uploaded to the BBC iPlayer, which is where Nick… Read more
Sunday Morning Survey – What Gets Your Goat (And A Tim Minchin Lullaby)?
December 11, 2011 By Kylie Sturgess 0 Comments
Sunday Morning Survey – Because I’ve Got So Much To Do Over The Coming Week That This Might Be The Last Blog-Post For A While, So Enjoy Making Comments And Please Vote For Me And Other Wonderful People In The UK Skeptics Awards! So, what makes you snap? Oh, and congratulations to Simon Taylor, the winner of the prestigious annual ‘Under Our Wing Award’, Australia’s top award given to emerging cabaret performers! That definitely doesn’t get my goat, not in the slightest…. Read more
Make Your Nominations For The UK Skeptic Awards 2011 (With A Blatant Request)
December 10, 2011 By Kylie Sturgess 1 Comment
Make your nominations for The Skeptic Awards 2011! The Skeptic Magazine is delighted, for the first time, to be giving awards celebrating skeptical activity in several categories during 2011. As well as an ‘Editors’ Choice’ award for lifetime achievement, we have five other categories – and for those we’re going to need your help. Please join in, by voting for: The best podcast The best blog The best event, campaign or outreach event of the year. This could be an organisation… Read more
Down In Front, Kittens (And Other Things That Are More Positive Than Atheist In-Fighting)
December 10, 2011 By Kylie Sturgess 0 Comments
Look, just skip to the end of this blog-post and check out the cute kitten video, if you like. Perhaps it’s that time of the year, but I’m rather fed up with online debates and fights and name-calling and nasty behaviour, particularly amongst people who have ideological similarities and common goals (not pointing out anyone in particular, just a general observation) – and I’m just going to post this instead and head out tonight to the cinemas and enjoy myself… Read more
Educate Kids – And Give Them Santa, Easter Bunny – And Religion?
December 10, 2011 By Kylie Sturgess 0 Comments
Get over to the Swift site and read one of the most thought-provoking posts you’ll read this holiday season (and debate your point of view in the comments!) An Argument for Santa, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, and (gasp!) Even Jesus by Barbara Drescher. …Asking a child to learn critical thinking when you only provide accurate information is like asking them to learn to sort socks when all of the socks are the same. How can you tell the good information… Read more
The Something Fierce Scholarship Fund
December 9, 2011 By Kylie Sturgess 0 Comments
Dear everyone: I think it’s time to try something a little crazy. If you can’t afford to buy Something Fierce right now, I’ve set up a sort of “scholarship” fund. Some donors have put in funds to get copies to folks who don’t have a budget for music right now. I like experimenting. Help make this work! Apply for an album if you want one! Or you can fund an album for a stranger if you like. This is from Marian… Read more
It’s Nice To Be Appreciated – New Podcasting Equipment!
December 9, 2011 By Kylie Sturgess 0 Comments
First – some news. Perth SkeptiCamp is now officially in the works, and it is being run by the UWA Atheists and Skeptics Society (which I’m a supporter of, since I’m not a university student there anymore; I hope to help with some small way with the event regardless). Speaking of donations – I got a donation via Paypal. A rather significant amount, or at least it was significantly larger than anyone has donated to the podcast ever before. I’m… Read more
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