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God is imaginary
Monday, July 6th, 2009I love this…godisimaginary.com
Fundamentalist idiots…
Monday, May 11th, 2009Ohio Christian school tells student to skip prom
FINDLAY, Ohio – A student at a fundamentalist Baptist school that forbids dancing, rock music, hand-holding and kissing will be suspended if he takes his girlfriend to her public high school prom, his principal said.
Despite the warning, 17-year-old Tyler Frost, who has never been to a dance before, said he plans to attend Findlay High School’s prom Saturday.
Frost, a senior at Heritage Christian School in northwest Ohio, agreed to the school’s rules when he signed a statement of cooperation at the beginning of the year, principal Tim England said.
The teen, who is scheduled to receive his diploma May 24, would be suspended from classes and receive an “incomplete” on remaining assignments, England said. Frost also would not be permitted to attend graduation but would get a diploma once he completes final exams. If Frost is involved with alcohol or sex at the prom, he will be expelled, England said.
Frost’s stepfather Stephan Johnson said the school’s rules should not apply outside the classroom.
“He deserves to wear that cap and gown,” Johnson said.
Frost said he thought he had handled the situation properly. Findlay requires students from other schools attending the prom to get a signature from their principal, which Frost did.
“I expected a short lecture about making the right decisions and not doing something stupid,” Frost said. “I thought I would get his signature and that would be the end.”
England acknowledged signing the form but warned Frost there would be consequences if he attended the dance. England then took the issue to a school committee made up of church members, who decided to threaten Frost with suspension.
“In life, we constantly make decisions whether we are going to please self or please God. (Frost) chose one path, and the school committee chose the other,” England said.
The handbook for the 84-student Christian school says rock music “is part of the counterculture which seeks to implant seeds of rebellion in young people’s hearts and minds.”
England said Frost’s family should not be surprised by the school’s position.
“For the parents to claim any injustice regarding this issue is at best forgetful and at worst disingenuous,” he said. “It is our hope that the student and his parents will abide by the policies they have already agreed to.”
The principal at Findlay High School, whose graduates include Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, said he respects, but does not agree with, Heritage Christian School’s view of prom.
“I don’t see (dancing and rock music) as immoral acts,” Craig Kupferberg said.
From The Courier
Edd Art
Friday, April 24th, 2009Watch what incredible pieces of art does Franc Grom create from simple eggs. Watch the details, the precision, the beauty… incredible.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i223/grandiflorum/e8255f5b.jpg
Paris Je T’aime
Monday, April 20th, 2009
I saw this film yesterday. What a great movie! So funny, so melancholic… worth watching! Many known actors appear in non-heroic roles…
50 Most Brilliant Atheists of All Time
Monday, April 20th, 2009I stole this link from Pharyngula, PZ Myers’ blog. If you want to read some real good thoughts on differents topics of everyday and science life, this is your blog.
BTW PZ is #45 
50 Most Brilliant Atheists of All Time
…like good Christians
Thursday, November 20th, 2008Children accused of witchcraft… terrible.
Global warm(n)ing
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008Google’s new stuff
Monday, September 29th, 2008
While I prefer not be an eary adopter I like new stuff. We all know Google’s been pushing the production of its own software and it’s been a good while since they’ve proven themselves as the creators of the best search engine ever. Let me tell you what do I think about some Google stuff I’ve tried.
Googlemail aka Gmail
What do you get?
A fast and reliable mail service with a vast size that actually grows by time, so there’s no way a normal person will ever exceed that mailbox. All on Ajax basis, all nice and preloaded, fast, handy, easily searchable, etc…
Also yo ucan use it with an external client… I use Thunderbird. And THE TOOL for backing up Thunderbird is MozBackup. I am using Thunderbird since a long time… took some time for them to make it really valuable but now it really is
Drawbacks?
Well, if you’re used to the classic way people organize stuff then you’ll be disapponted. All mail is in one big bag…pow! BUT you can make your own filters, that work as folders. But they are not real folders, because Unkle Google thinks folders are redundant… so don’t dare call them folders! They are filters 
Oh, one very important thing. Your username is actually smart. It means:
- user.name@gmail.com
- user.name@googlemail.com
- username@gmail.com
- username@googlemail.comuser_name@gmail.com
- user_name@googlemail.com
etc… are ALL THE SAME.
Google Earth
What do you get?
You get a powerful and fun tool to check places on earth, linked with all the community stuff, user-related content, Panoramio shots and other really cool things. I won’t try to name all of them because it’s growing day by day but it really is powerful. Don’t know what does the Pro version cover as I have never ever had the urge to purchase the full software.
Drawbacks?
What really is well done and covered is the U.S. The rest of the world is left -in my opinion- to evolve itself, aka by the users.
Next thing is the reliability of the SW. It crashed on and off on my PCs, different types of Windowses, different SW installed - never knew the reason why. Sometimes you switch off a layer and never switch it on again. Also, e.g. I tried to draw the path in Vienna, Austria from the Naturhistorisches Museum to the Schoenbrunn Castle and the map disappeared. It just disappeared. Tried on 3 PCs… all the same. Don’t know why…
As they upgraded Google Maps so that they are able to display satellite images and vice versa with Google Earth, these two seem to me the same.
Google Talk aka Gtalk
What do you get?
If you have a google account yo can have Google’s chatclient. A barebone as almost all Google products but works as a clockwork. Can’t do much but that works all the time and reliably. If you need to chat this is the tool for you.
Drawbacks?
What’s in it is in it, what ain’t stays out. That means you can write chats, call somebody, send files or mail. That’s it. Finito. No skin, no games, no fancy stuff no nothin’. But who needs ‘em?
Google Reader
What do you get?
You get a powerful feed reader. Supports all known (to me) formats of feeds, is customizable, has some nice features, e.g. it suggests you new subscriptions based on your current subscription profile (I have subscribed to many feeds on GR’s recommendation). Has two interfaces - youwill be asked to choose when you add a new feed.
Drawbacks?
Don’t know about any.
Picasa
What do you get?
You get a very usable fancy working picture viewer utility, the so-to-say country sister of Adobe’s LightRoom. It is capable of doing some standard tasks like red eye reduction, cloning (not that good), color corrections (quite good), etc.
Is able to log in with your google account and upload your photos to your Picasa Web Albums.
Can change the pictures while still leaving the original material untouched, then you can decide to apply the changes and save a new file. Also has some other good features I leave for you to try
The really cool stuff is in the new beta version and that is the picture viewer that is awesome.
Drawbacks?
I still need some REAL picture editing software.
Chrome beta
What do you get?
Here we go again. Please check out this presentation at first.
What do you think, that the messiah of all browsers appeared? Then we’re the same. But the problem is that reality tells about something else. But I’m supposed to mention the pros here, ain’t I?
When you open you get a big white page with a pale blue header. Two “masked” icons with the options/settings on the right and that’s it. You get all the display for the webpage. That’s cool.
When you re-open Chrome, you see the thumbnails of your recently/most used pages. That’s cool, too.
It is able to create application-like stuff from simple webpages…it’s quite usable.
But that’s it! Now let’s see the
Drawbacks!
Remember the header? That’s it. No toolbars, no nothing. I know it’s not the Chrome Team’s job to write them…but I miss ‘em anyways.
You surely remember the ’sandbox’ from the presentation. They promised the tabs to be as separated processes, not affecting each other. Well, I managed to freeze Chrome completely by viewing a simple YouTube video (isn’t youtube also a Google Geekery? Hm…) I know it was the Flash Plugin bu still that was to be separated and we see it wasn’t.
My verdict? It’s a good beta but still has miles to go to be a valuable product.
Google Desktop
What do you get?
You get Google Desktop Search a powerful search engine that seraches everything and everywhere. It also has additional plugins so like they say the fascination never ends 
Just tap Ctrl twice and a search window pops up that finds your files, webpages, web history, whatever!
Has also the Google Sidebar with all thos cool gadgets (as Google calls his little widgets). The basic WMP gadget is very cool, it runs WMP in the background and so you can listen to your music and save some space on your taskbar - and it scrobbles for last.fm
Drawbacks?
Depending on the amount of data you decide to make searchable (aka how much stuff you have on your HDD) it can take up to 8-10 hours to make the index.
Summa summarum
In my opinion Google is the future. They think different, they make good stuff and their products are really usable, They’re not different like Apple (Apple just sucks) they do not make shiny fancy bling-bling software. They make really innovative things. I like Google.
I hope my collegue balazs to comment as he infected me with these and he’s the real Google Geek…
God Hates Fags
Thursday, July 31st, 2008I ran upon a rather “interesting” page of christians who actually warn parents to watch out for their children are listening to stating:
One of the most dangerous ways homosexuality invades family life is through popular music. Parents should keep careful watch over their children’s listening habits, especially in this Internet Age of MP3 piracy.
Just the pick my tops from the list: Ravi Shankar (!), Metallica (!! with photos !! lol), JayZ, Depeche Mode, Nirvana (!), Motorhead (!!!! - imagine Lemmy in pink…), Cannibal Corpse (MOFG what can be gay in CC???) and Elton John being there even twice 
Now when a 70yrs old granny tells me this from an isolated country village I say OK, old school. But how can a normal, mentally healthy citizen of the 21st century propose and propagate such a bullshit??
God hates fags… doesn’t love everyone? Isn’t god’s love universal?
I’m straight as it can get, don’t worry but I have nothing against gays unless they do their “business” behind the scenes just as everybody else does. Are these ‘christians’ worried they might be disoriented? That they might get off the beaten track and try some chocolate cave adventure?
What about the gay priests who have sexual intercourses with young BOYS? Is homosexual pedophylia better than plain gays? And does god love these priests?
I think this exaggerated christianity is fake, bad and much much worse than those gay guys…
The sites stinks here: http://lovegodsway.org/GayBands
