Monthly Archives: October 2006

Firefox 2.0 review

By probabilityZero | October 31, 2006

Okay, I’ve been using the new Firefox 2.0 release for a few days now, and I have to say that I disagree with what many people have been saying about it. Right now, Firefox has around 13% of the browser market, and the big question is: does FF2 have enough to continue to win over [...]

Posted in Tech and games | 3 Comments

Pre-War Fantasies Vs. Post-War Reality

By probabilityZero | October 29, 2006
Posted in Current events, Videos | 6 Comments

Maher Arar illegally held and tortured

By probabilityZero | October 29, 2006

“we support your war of terror” – borat
Maher Arar is a 34-year-old wireless technology consultant. He was born in Syria and came to Canada with his family at the age of 17. He became a Canadian citizen in 1991. On Sept. 26, 2002, while in transit in New York’s JFK airport when returning home from [...]

Posted in Current events | 6 Comments

Dial a Psychic

By probabilityZero | October 27, 2006

I saw this article, written by Reginald V. Finley, and I found it really interesting. Basically, it shows everything that’s wrong with blind faith, as the callers described had no reason to believe the author was an actual psychic other than they wanted it to be true–it gave them comfort. Also, and probably more interesting, [...]

Posted in Atheism, Other | 4 Comments

Limbaugh still refuses to apologize to Fox

By probabilityZero | October 26, 2006

Rush Limbaugh is standing by his claim that Michael J. Fox is exaggerating the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, despite the recent, false claims by the media that he had apologized.
From the transcript: I stand by what I said. I take back none of what I said. I wouldn’t rephrase it any differently. It is what [...]

Posted in Current events | 108 Comments

New layout and old excuses

By probabilityZero | October 24, 2006

Well, K2 wasn’t working well with my host, 1and1 (they’re complete crap), so I decided to change it up a bit. This is a much simpler and more elegant design, plus it validates in XHTML (last time I checked).
Anyway, you probably noticed that I’ve been posting rather erratically lately. As always, I have lots of [...]

Posted in Site News | 2 Comments

Enron CEO Skilling sentenced to 24 years

By probabilityZero | October 24, 2006

From MSNBC: Former Enron Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Skilling, the most vilified figure from the financial scandal of the decade, was sentenced Monday to 24 years and four months in the harshest sentence yet in the case that arose from the energy trading giant’s collapse.
Hooray! Finally we get something a little more appropriate.
Skilling was convicted [...]

Posted in Current events, News | 1 Comment

Thought Crimes

By probabilityZero | October 21, 2006

This is a very disturbing story, moreso when you really think about it.
A 15-year-old boy was sentenced this morning to six years in state prison for his role in a plot to shoot fellow students and faculty last spring at Winslow Township High School.
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Initially charges with terrorism, the four were arrested after a girlfriend of [...]

Posted in Current events, F***ed up, Noteworthy | 7 Comments

Rick Santorum is an Orc

By probabilityZero | October 17, 2006

Recently, Senator and racist neocon asshole Rick Santorum told Bucks County Courier Times:
“As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else. It’s being drawn to Iraq and it’s not being drawn to the U.S. You know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don’t want [...]

Posted in Current events, Opinion | 2 Comments

Stem cell research saves lives–theistic ideology doesn’t

By probabilityZero | October 15, 2006

This is a very moving video that portrays the human aspect of stem cell research. (continue for streaming video)

Posted in Current events, Videos | 2 Comments

South Park episode about 9/11 conspiracy

By probabilityZero | October 13, 2006

Download the torrent here

Posted in Atheism, Videos | 10 Comments

Parody: Landover Baptist Pastor Preaches to Atheists

By probabilityZero | October 13, 2006

This is a video of a fake baptist pastor preaching at the American Atheists “Godless March.”
We have people placed in government who are tying to get fools like you to give up your silly superstitions about science and so-called logic

Posted in Atheism, Videos | 4 Comments