Delicious LiveJournal Links for 10-12-2010

[andrewducker]

• Tuition Fees made simple - how every major party is going against what they once said...
  (tags: university education politics uk)
• The Register misrepresents climate science. (I think it's wrong about computing a lot too. Where's better?)
  (tags: media climate science)
• Apple Blocks Spotify in the U.S.?
  (tags: Apple spotify music usa)
• Hundreds of Proofs of God’s Existence
  (tags: religion christianity philosophy funny)
• Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals
  (tags: animals emotion psychology pets)
• In shocking news, dogs have emotions. I'm shocked. Shocked, I say!
  (tags: emotion psychology dogs)

Comments

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Not that I think it makes a real difference but with a new leader Labour now have a universal U-turn excuse.

[innerbrat]

I'm not a climate scientist, but I'm pretty sure that when you capitalise "Sun", you're claiming that Murdoch causes global warming.

[iainjcoleman.livejournal.com]

It is standard practice in astronomy to capitalise Sun, Moon and Galaxy when referring to the star Earth orbits round, Earth's major natural satellite, and the galaxy in which Earth is situated. (Also, Earth and Universe are normally capitalised.)

[innerbrat]

Awesome, thanks. Of those, I would only capitalse Earth, but having thought about it, I understand the importance.

God

[zornhau.livejournal.com]

ARGUMENT FROM INSTRUMENTATION
(1) You are an atheist.
(2) You did something kind.
(3) You are an instrument of God.
(4) Therefore, God exists.

OMG - I've heard this one so often. I wonder if there's a Secrit Kristun Playbuk?

Re: God

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

But contrariwise, the Devil exists if you did something bad!

Re: God

[zornhau.livejournal.com]

Argh!

ARGUMENT FROM PERSECUTION
You are hitting me with an axe.
You are an atheist.
You are doing something bad.
Therefore the Devil exists.
Therefore God--
[Atheist (cleaning his axe): Feel free to report back from Heaven.]

[innerbrat]

Every single one of those arguments can be applied to Batman

Every.
Single.
One.

Therefore, Batman exists.

[andrewducker]

http://pope-guilty.livejournal.com/844766.html

[innerbrat]

I know.

[andrewducker]

Sorry, wasn't trying to imply that you didn't know that- just thought it was a nice example of what you were talking about.

I really ought to give more context, wasj ust dashing between meetings.

[innerbrat]

Well I was just having my coffee, so I think we can both be forgiven.

Therefore, Batman exists.

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! Holly will be pleased.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

OMFG!

Yes.

[spacelem.livejournal.com]

Yes, but then they get angry and say that it's not fair to bring up the Flying Spaghetti Monster, because that's some imaginary created object just to spite them, and doesn't have two millennia of history, and it's just stupid.

And you say "Yes!! That's the point!!"

[innerbrat]

Batman >>> some noodley deity.

Batman shoots deities IN THE FACE.

Therefore, Batman exists.

[nmg.livejournal.com]

Git. Thanks to you, I've now registered on the BBC's speke you're branes cesspool so that I could respond to one of the more ignorant comments on the Nick Robinson story.

[andrewducker]

Going all 386 on them?

[nmg.livejournal.com]

More challenging their perception that I'd been on holiday for the past four months.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much damns the Register to my mind. Good on the Grauniad for calling them on it.