http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog read or die. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:54:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Stolen from Hemant Mehta. In boldface is the stuff I've done... 1. Participated in the Blasphemy Challenge. 2. Met at least one of the “Four Horsemen” (Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris) in person. 3. Created an atheist blog. 4. Used the Flying Spaghetti Monster in a religious debate with someone. 5. Gotten ... http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2009/04/29/atheist-survey-meme/ Every now and then you find something that just has to be shared... "I am a sassy and opinionated person who is a hopeless romantic @ heart. I am 90 percent optimist 10 percent realist. I would do anything for my friends or family. I am looking for some that is ... http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2009/04/20/bad-personal-ad-typos-1/ Life has a tendency of throwing us curveballs. For me, the biggest was realizing that I no longer believed in God. All my life I was raised to believe in a soft variety of the Christian god. He was an all-powerful, all-knowing being living off in some indescribably wonderful place who ... http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2009/04/08/why-i-am-an-atheist/ Synthetic Life Form Grows in Florida Lab Duh. It was only a matter of time. http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2009/02/27/once-again-suck-it-creationists/ Fossils reveal truth about Darwin's theory: Transitional creatures found include the 'fishibian' and the 'frogamander' We win. You lose. http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2009/02/14/suck-it-creationists/ Brains 'are hardwired to believe in God and imaginary friends' YOU DON'T SAY! http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2009/02/06/todays-duh-moment/ I did it for the lulz. Twenty, twenty, twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated Nothin' to do, no where to go, oh, I wanna be sedated Just get me to the airport put me on a plane Hurry, hurry, hurry before I go insane I can't control my fingers, I can't control ... http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2009/01/22/podcast-stephen-hawkings-greatest-hits-1-i-wanna-be-sedated/ This... is NASTY. http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2009/01/14/i-think-soda-makers-should-avoid-veggie-centric-ideas/ Just saw this nifty little story online: How Did Life Begin? RNA That Replicates Itself Indefinitely Developed For First Time One of the most enduring questions is how life could have begun on Earth. Molecules that can make copies of themselves are thought to be crucial to understanding this process as ... http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2009/01/10/evolution-it-works-bitches/ So my Zune died. I went to Target to buy a new one, an 80GB black one. I take it home and open it up. The screen is covered with fingerprints, the back is slightly smudged, the USB cable is in the headphone box, and the headphones are in the USB cable ... http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2008/11/16/oh-target-why-must-you-lie/ I "interviewed" this crazy woman today about politics. Here's the interview! http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2008/11/02/podcast-the-marguerite-perrin-interview/ So... XKCD posted this comic a few days ago: And today, when I tried replying to a comment on YouTube, I couldn't. Nothing happened.  I checked Firefox's javascript errors and saw this: Error: commentPreviewEnabled is not defined Source File: http://s.ytimg.com/yt/js/base_all_with_bidi-vfl58055.js Line: 1244 So I just typed, in my address bar: javascript:commentPreviewEnabled=true;void(0); and lo and behold, this appears ... http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2008/10/06/youtube-loves-xkcd/ I received this e-mail from the woman who runs this batshit insane website: Subject: [XXXXXX] Sarah Palin To Be Dropped From McCain Ticket From: Ruth Calabria <ruthcalabria2@matrix-evolutions.com> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:01:18 -0400 To: XXXXXX Dear Friends, The guns on the conviction of the sinner, Senator Barack Obama, are about to be silenced. Sarah Palin ... http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2008/09/19/what/ Figured this op-ed needed more outlets, so I'll repost it. (note: Tim Wise is a white guy.) September 13, 2008, 2:01 pm This is Your Nation on White Privilege By Tim Wise For those who still can’t grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps ... http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2008/09/17/this-is-your-nation-on-white-privilege/ I just googled this phrase (along with 'fringe') and found NOTHING about it. There were (at the time I started this post) five results, none of them related to the show: Then I refreshed the Google search... and an unofficial Fringe fan site showed up. Now I get TWO results from ... http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2008/09/12/observers-are-here/ This started off as a troll post on Slashdot years ago... and I just remembered it and decided to make a podcast of it. The original story is here. It's an abomination. http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2008/09/01/freeplay-reads-porn-episode-3-old-ike/ Note: I wrote this in 2005 for a rhetoric class. we were supposed to write a rhetorical dialogue between two figures, alive or dead, real or fictional... Christ Drives a Buick: A Dialogue on Morality It was a dark and stormy night. I was alone in my house, and the pounding of ... http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2008/09/01/christ-drives-a-buick/ http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2008/08/18/wat/ Yippee. Good old Live Search Club... first a free wireless PC headset, now this. Also, a coworker gave me a 20GB U2 edition iPod (4th gen) that "wasn't working". It was out of warranty, so she didn't want to drop $200 on a repair when she could get a new one for ... http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2008/06/06/i/ There's all this talk about how the Democratic candidates are friendly to big business and the rich. Let's take a look at a slice of their voting records and see who seems to be in favor of tax loopholes, shall we? Also, pay close attention to the things that McCain ... http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2008/05/21/john-mccain-friend-of-the-tax-loophole/ Right here I have a bunch of photos of a place I was told was a tuberculosis sanitorium - a place that people with TB went back in the early 20th century to be quarantined. That may or may not be true; there's nothing I've found to disprove that claim. But ... http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2008/05/13/urban-exploration-and-a-bit-of-history/ Got myself a 'tax refund celebration gift': a Sony Bravia KDL-40S3000. 40" LCD TV... up to 1080i/p... 7 different video inputs... mmmmmmmmm. http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2008/05/12/a-gift-from-uncle-sam/ As promised, here's Episode 2: Aaron Carter at Hogwarts (part 2 of 2). Slightly better production values; still terrible. Sorry about my voice; it started giving out on me. http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2008/05/07/freeplay-reads-slashfic-episode-2/ Out of boredom (and in keeping with a concept I've been mulling around for a while) I've decided to start recording myself reading ridiculous porno stories, as poorly as I possibly can. Why? Because I can. it's the internet. we do that here. Episode 1: Aaron Carter at Hogwarts (part 1 of 2) Totally ... http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2008/05/07/freeplay-reads-porno-episode-1/ In cooperation with JacksonBrown (who he is exactly I don't know but that's the name he uses) I've made a tool for unpacking the .BAR archives used in the downloadable PSP game 'Beats'. Here. It'll unpack the .BAR file to its own subfolder. It can auto-detect the most typical file formats stored ... http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2008/05/05/hax/ i can has http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2008/04/29/omg/ Sometimes authors really ought to consider using pseudonyms. http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2008/04/18/ye-gods/ so wordpress can do podcasts. who knew. lulz. http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2008/04/11/lol-podcasts/ so this grocery store called Hannaford was stupid and only encrypted their credit card transactions when they reached headquarters. as a result, thousands upon thousands of credit card transactions were intercepted by thieves... including mine. so I got a call yesterday from my bank, asking about some odd transactions to see if ... http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2008/04/11/lol-credit-card-fraud/ On my previous post, I used to have a comment from someone named 'drew' containing text which I eventually realized was quoted from www.ucctruths.com , an ex-UCC-member website that purports to be exposing the dark side of the church. Not surprisingly, the e-mail address 'drew' supplied was false, so I could ... http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2008/03/06/lies-and-intentional-deceit-from-ucctruthscom/ Someone in the IRS has a bone to pick with Obama. A little background: I grew up in a church called the United Church of Christ, which has been gaining prominence in recent years. A fellow member of my church happens to be none other than Barack Obama. Last June, Senator Obama gave ... http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2008/02/28/pathetic/ I've been around my apartment so much lately (not exercising) that I can practically feel myself getting fatter. and the gym's closed after 7PM on weekends... bah. so I pulled out the Gazelle I got from some friends and decided to give it a try. this thing is terrifying. it's constantly creaking, popping, ... http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2008/02/23/thinning/ I want to sing. where. where will I sing. give me music. I will sing it. I do not care what it is I WILL SING IT. lalala. http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2008/02/10/my-voice/ From my mom: School has already been called off. It's nearly 10:30. It's been snowing like crazy since about 3:00. White-out conditions in the country. Hard telling what the drifts will be like. We have our milk and bread :-) Scott spun into a snow drift ... http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2008/02/06/michigansnow/ So I've started dating again. Yay me. First date was just dinner at the Cheesecake Factory. It went really well, so we're meeting again for dinner and a movie tomorrow (Feb. 4). We're going to see some romantic comedy that's been panned so far by the critics... but when was I ever one ... http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2008/02/04/dating/ Is it just me, or does it seem like everyone, EVERYWHERE, wants everything handed to them? All the time, I'm asked stupid, repetitive questions. On my YouTube videos about PSP hacks, I must have dozens of repetitions of each question - "How do I make a Pandora battery?" "What's an unbricker?" ... http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2008/01/28/laziness-stupidity-and-other-mortal-sins/ I'm in another crisis of faith. "Wait a minute, FreePlay has faith?" Yes, very funny, ha ha. I know, I argue against religious people all the time, but you've got to realize, I'm not arguing against God, I'm arguing against dogma. I believe in God. But the more I delve into ... http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2008/01/22/struggling-for-faith/ So. Furikup seems like a nice achievement and all... but honestly, I cannot find a single SIP server that actually works with this thing. If only there were an unofficial Skype client :S anyways, I've spent far too long trying to get this to work. think I'll just burn it and make ... http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2008/01/10/re-furikup/ Finally got this crap installed... http://freeplay.halfmoon.ws/blog/2008/01/09/yay/