I used to love Ben Stein. That is, until I found out he was a raving lunatic creationist.
About a year ago I heard he was involved with a documentary on Intelligent Design and I didn’t give it much thought. Perhaps this was because I always found him to be fun, witty, and more [...]
The title from a print ad for a Pitney-Bowes postage meter circa 1955. What an interesting look at the some advertisements from the “good ‘ol days.”
Does this culture evolution speak to our extremely litigious modern society? When browsing these ads you immediately think of the various groups in each case that would probably [...]
Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.
– Charles Lamb
“Why can’t somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
4 Sep
- The Culture entry posted on September 4th, 2007.
What can we learn from the little top 5 lists that show up when you login to Facebook? My local network thing is West Palm Beach, FL so my stats reflect the userbase in my area.
So we have a couple of interesting topics to examine…
Atheism: A Brief History of Disbelief — 2, 3, 4.
An excellent documentary on the history of Atheism from the ancient Greeks to today. Wonderful food for thought whether you are a believer or not.
Good Copy Bad Copy is “a documentary about the current state of copyright and culture,” featuring Danger Mouse, Lawrence Lessig, Dan Glickman of the MPAA and others. The film’s creators are releasing it free of charge, via Bittorrent.
From Slashdot:
“The producers of a new documentary film analyzing global music piracy have decided to ‘put their money [...]
