God cut from Dark Materials film The director and screenwriter of the film adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials is to remove references to God and the church in the movie. … “You have to recognise that it is a challenge in the climate of Bush’s America,” Uh, right. And the same result wouldn’t […]
The main argument from religious circles to prevent stem-call research is that you have to kill an embryo in order to harvest the stem cells. Apparently, the Catholic Church has defined a point at which the death of an embryo is actually the death of a whole person. William Hurlbut, “an earnest young member of […]
Wow, this is one hell of list of links. [via Alice and Bill.com]
Krista Watson, formerly Krista Kotlarz, of Rockford, and also wife of the late Barton Watson, is under investigation for running the Ponzi scheme known as CyberNET (or Cyberco). She may not be charged for months, but you can bet that, when they find her, she’ll get the punishment due to Barton. Wow, someone from Rockford […]
Someone posted this to the HATT Yahoo group today; Nvu, an open-source WYSIWYG HTML editor with an integrated CSS editor. Since I (currently) work for a draconion tech company staffed by Luddites, I will have to check this out at home. Link
My friend John Auchter is one of the most intelligent (and by the number of “discussions” we’ve had, most patient) people I know. John is also really freakin’ good at putting those wonderful ideas of his into comics. His latest comic is one such example. To writ: Now I will say this: Hopefully, in these […]
WoodTV has posted the affidavit used to obtain the search warrant for CyberNET. Any teachers out there, you can use this to illustrate just what a Ponzi scheme is. Link (PDF)
This case just gets worse and worse. The remaining executives seem to be rallying around the missing head of Barton Watson and looting the company while they can. Creditors are filing lawsuits left and right but, surprise, there’s no money left. Why? [CyberNET’s Chairman Jim] Horton said he doesn’t have any money to pay creditors; […]
I want a set of these! Logitech behind-the-head, dual headphone, boom mic, and the cover is red. Very cool. (Actually, I’m just posting this here so I don’t forget it.) ThinkGeek :: Logitech Internet Chat Headset
Before you think he is, he’s not. Dan Rather’s mistake of running with a story he should have been more skeptical about is only the cover for Bill’s other objective. Like so many before him, O’Reilly is not defending Rather. Rather, he’s protecting his bread and butter – old-school journalism. The Bush papers (and Swift […]