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Catholic School Denies Admission to Child of Lesbians
No comments · Posted by stormie in Editorial, News, WTF?
In order to feel as though there are Catholic believers in their midst, the Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic School has decided that anything (selectively, of course) not pertaining to the Catholic faith will be expelled. A preschooler has been denied education in this institution because her parents are lesbians and according to the school, this does not “uphold the Catholic principles.” Funny how children with parents who are divorced or are taking birth control are allowed to attend…
What was once thought to be a place of safety is now obviously a place with selective thinking. Organized Religion/Cult anyone? ^_~
Read the fun here:
TheDenverChannel.com – Catholic School Rejects Child Because Of Lesbian Parents
If you want to look at someone who took pictures of the pages of a magazine and try to read the text, then click here to see what Portal 2 might look like
Here’s a followup on the Sea Monkey Experiment. On Thursday, there were about 30-40 baby sea monkeys happily swimming. When I checked them today, there were maybe 4 or 5 babies. MASS EXTINCTION! Both older Sea Monkeys were still alive.
So, not sure what happened here. I don’t think it was the food, because they seemed content when I left them. There was no issue with environment as I had both the control group and the Sea Monkeys on Mars tank right next to each other, and there was no change in the population.
Conclusion: CONFUSED!
brine shrimp · experiment · science · sea monkey · sea monkeys · sea monkeys on mars
I don’t usually read ARS Tech–in fact, I hadn’t heard of them until someone pointed this article out on another website I visit. Basically, they make a point that using browser add-ons like AdBlock Plus is hurting websites that you rely on for news because they don’t get paid for the ads that are displayed.
The article says that even if you are a person who NEVER clicks on ads, the mere fact that the ad is displayed is money in their pockets.
One would be a fool to argue that websites shouldn’t get revenue–to pay for hosting, pay a staff, or just to jump into a pile of ivory back scratchers.
The problem however is with content control. I’m not sure exactly how web adverts work, but I understand the website doesn’t have a lot of control over what is being advertised.
Countless people have called me to help them remove a Trojan or a program that is slowing their system down because of an advertisement they clicked on. After giving it a cleaning, I usually install Firefox and AdBlock Plus along with anti spyware and anti virus programs and they never call me again, except to hang out or whatever.
I would gladly give up ad blocking if I knew it would be 100% safe. I’m one who has learned to automatically tune them out. However, I know from experience that this is never the case. Shoot the monkey and win a free trip to Somalia, or a pop up that says “Antivirus 2101 dectected 1,200,001 viruses OMG!” tells me that I NEED to block these. I’m sorry you aren’t getting paid for your great site, but come on–these ads are killing computers!
So, have your say–what do you think?
ad blocking · advertising · ars technica · content control · trojans
Ever since I plugged in a spare 15″ monitor into a $5 PCI video card so that I could throw instant message chat and music players off my main display I have found the expansion of desktop real-estate very useful. With most mainstream video cards supporting at least 2 monitors by default multi-monitor use seems to be growing more more and more popular. One little quirk of multi-monitor use has been any fullscreen viewing of flash videos. When playing a fullscreen flash video the slightest click on a second monitor exits the fullscreen flash mode, making it less than optimal to catch up on episodes of Alf while updating Yaysoft news. For the last several versions of Flash there have been how-to guides using a hex editor to custom edit the file needed to wrangle Flash to suit your needs, but alas I have been too lazy to implement these changes. Well thankfully along came blogger Jmaxxz who has written a nifty little script that will edit most current versions of flash quickly and painlessly. Enjoy!
cheating · chomic · skype chat
Barack Obama gets a surprise visit in the night from ex-Presidents Bush Sr., Bush Jr., Clinton, Ford, Reagan and Carter to get a few pointers about the Consumer Financial Protection Agency and why it’s so important.
This little beauty was directed by Ron Howard.
bush · carter · clinton · ford · obama · president · reagan · sketch comedy · video
With various committees, under the authority of a 54 nation diplomatic treaty, the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures(BIPM) maintains world-wide uniformity of measurements in relation to the International System of Units (SI). This is why units of measure in quantities of 1,000 (103) are referred to as kilo and 0.000000001 (10–9) are referred to as nano. The last change to the official units of measure was in 1991 when BIPM adopted zetta and yotta to handle measurements of 1021 and 1024.
Now thanks to Austin Sendek, a physics student at UC Davis, a new unit of measure may be on the horizon. Sendek has proposed that a measurement of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 units should be referred to as hella. Certainly anything measured to 1027 values would be hella big, but should it be official?
