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Easing into Monday

This weekend was GREAT for fun, geeky, silly links. Here are my top three favorites.

First, head over to Geekosystem’s 50 Things That Look Like Faces. While you’re there make sure to learn about pareidolia and why our brains want to see faces in random phenomena. Of all of the images, I liked the screaming pepper the most.

Second, take a trip over to Toxel.com to see these incredible LipAnimals.


Lastly, this video.  On YouTube it’s called Devils & Angels, but I would have titled it Weed-1, Church-0.

Easing into Monday

Hello, 2011.

Here’s hoping you all had a great time last night, and that you made it safely into 2011.

The Hubby and I had a lame and lovely New Year’s Eve.  Neither of us felt like finding a party, and with the weather being all nasty it wasn’t that big of a stretch to decide to stay in.  We started watching the TV miniseries of Dune with William Hurt, had leftovers for dinner (‘cuz who wants to eat 2010 leftovers in 2011???), and we went to bed at 11:38pm.

This morning we have no hangovers, we woke up at a decent hour, I was motivated to make yummy frittata, and the Hubby was motivated to eat yummy frittata!

Happy New Year!

And in the spirit of “out with the old, in with the new” check out this AWESOME video that I found on Facebook via Being A Geek last night.  It’s about death, dying, cataclysms and the amazing fact that life on this planet has survived for so long, in spite of said death, dying and cataclysms.

 

Hello, 2011.

Pam Ann

What?  Busy…very busy!

Work is crazy.  I spent hours wrapping presents last night (I LOVE wrapping presents! Seriously, there was cloth ribbon and hot glue guns involved).  I haven’t had time to blog, but I have started four new drafts about all of the awesomeness that I’d like to share, so here’s hoping for a few free minutes.  For now, watch Pam Ann.   If you love crude and snooty-yet-trashy women, or airline humor, or British accents, I’d say that there is an excellent chance that maybe you’ll find her perhaps hilariously funny.

Pam Ann

Humanist reflections

These videos have made me feel all sentimental, inspired, and humanist-y.

Resistance to allowing gay service members to serve openly is one of those things that I just cannot wrap my head around.  Jeff Shang’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell exhibit contains photographs of closeted men and women who are serving in the military under DADT.  The photos and the subjects are beautiful, heartbreaking and haunting.

I followed that up with Science Saved My Soul by philhellenes, which I found over at Attempts at Rational Behavior.  The beginning of this video will take your breath away; the images of the night sky and the universe, the well-delivered script describing the beauty, the horror and the immense magnitude of the universe, and the music are all beautiful.

After giving the viewer a few seconds to catch his/her breath, the next ten minutes are devoted to a eloquent argument against organized religion, to being open to finding God without religion.  As philhellenes writes in the description for the video “I’m not against the Creator(s), if they exist, if they ever existed. I’m not against the search for the Creator(s). What blows MY mind is that people think religion has anything to do with it at all.”

Humanist reflections