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Mikel recently made a plea to people who use “Snap Shots” on their blogs to please reconsider. Snap Shots (sometimes referred to simply as “Snap”) is that highly annoying feature that pops up an ad-filled preview of the target whenever you roll your cursor over a link on a Web page (usually a blog). Here’s [...]

Check out the cappuccino I had at Caffè Art Java (downtown Montreal) yesterday. Nice face! It not only looked pretty cool, it tasted great. If you ask me (and I know you’re asking me) Art Java makes the best coffee in town.

When I saw the face in the coffee I couldn’t help but think they [...]

According to Wikipedia:
Earth Hour is an international event that asks households and businesses to turn off their lights and non-essential electrical appliances for one hour on the evening of 29 March at 8PM local time to promote electricity conservation and thus lower carbon emissions.
I’m all for lowering carbon emissions. But if you live in Quebec, [...]

After last week’s lengthy discussion on religion and atheism, commenter Jim Royal pointed to a recent lecture by TED Prize winner Karen Armstrong. (If you’re not familiar with the TED lectures – “Inspired talks by the world’s greatest thinkers and doers” – you should make a point of looking into them.)
In the lectures, Armstrong discusses [...]

As you might have noticed, I’ve changed my template a bit. In fact, it’s a whole new template, although it doesn’t look so different from the old one. But underneath it is quite different.
The new template lets me use Wordpress “widgets” in the sidebar, which means nothing to you, but something to me. Unfortunately, some [...]

(Postscript: I changed the title of this post from “Faith in the Unknowable” to “Chris Hedges on Atheism” to more accurately depict the topic of the post.)
Chris Hedges was on “The Hour” with George Stroumboulopoulos last night promoting his new book I Don’t Believe in Atheists. In the book, Hedges speaks against the rise [...]

I‘ve been having the most bizarre dreams lately, but I’ve not written about them because writing about your dreams is a bit like describing your bowel movements; endlessly fascinating to yourself but of little interest to others. But this one is short, and so over the top that I can’t resist telling.
In the dream, I’m [...]