Capitalism & socialism

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20 non-believer quotes

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“Religion. Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told. Think about it. Religion, has actually convinced people… that there’s an invisible man! Living in the sky! Who watches everything you do, every minute, of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does NOT WANT YOU TO DO. And if you do any of these 10 things, he has a special place full of fire, and smoke, and burning, and torture, and anguish where he will send YOU, to live and suffer and burn, and choke, and scream, and cry, forever and ever till the end of time. …but he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.”

- George Carlin, “You’re All Diseased.”

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”

– Epicurus, Greek Philosopher

“When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.”

– Emo Philips

“What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.”

-Christopher Hitchens

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Great rant

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I’m not really an Apple hater, but I immensely enjoyed this rant:

“I admit it: I’m a bigot. A hopeless bigot at that: I know my particular prejudice is absurd, but I just can’t control it. It’s Apple. I don’t like Apple products. And the better-designed and more ubiquitous they become, the more I dislike them. I blame the customers. Awful people. Awful. Stop showing me your iPhone. Stop stroking your Macbook. Stop telling me to get one.

Seriously, stop it. I don’t care if Mac stuff is better. I don’t care if Mac stuff is cool. I don’t care if every Mac product comes equipped a magic button on the side that causes it to piddle gold coins and resurrect the dead and make holographic unicorns dance inside your head. I’m not buying one, so shut up and go home. Go back to your house. I know, you’ve got an iHouse. The walls are brushed aluminum. There’s a glowing Apple logo on the roof. And you love it there. You absolute MONSTER.”

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Forrest Gump in one minute

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Escher-esque photography

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I really how Sébastien Pérez-Duarte applies math to photography. The results remind me of Escher.

More on his homepage and his Flickr-page, including this how-to.

Amazing image

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“Worth Enough?” by DeviantArt user Radoxist.

Be sure to view the full version to check all the intricate details. Wow.

Apple brainwashing: how we do it

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Via the amazing, great, fantastic, easy, beautiful FakeSteve

Jedi Obama

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Is this for real? Link to XL version.

Smooth jazz…

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My sentiments exactly

Der Günther

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Brilliant video by MTV.

Musical notation you can understand

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Stephen Malinowski spent the last 30 years looking for a way to improve on the ’standard’ musical notation. This animated version of Beethoven’s fifth symphony is the result of his search.

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Recession just getting started

By akie

With all the supposedly good news about a new Depression-style recession having been averted, I’d like to point to some of last week’s headlines I would have thought impossible only two years ago:

• Hunger hits Detroit
• Two out of five working-age Californians jobless
• US families turn to food stamps as wages drop
• China alarmed by US money printing

… and we didn’t even get to hyperinflation yet :p