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The most beautiful skateboard.

Praise this world, Rilke says, the jerk.
We’d stay up all night. Every angel’s
berserk. Hell, if you slit monkeys
for a living, you’d pray to me, too.
I’m not so forgiving. I’m rubber, you’re glue.

That elk is such a dick. He’s a space tree
making a ski and a little foam chiropractor.
I set the controls, I pioneer
the seeding of the ionosphere.
I translate the Bible into velociraptor.

In front of Best Buy, the Tibetans are released,
but where’s the whale on stilts that we were promised?
I fight the comets, lick the moon,
pave its lonely streets.
The sandhill cranes make brains look easy.

I go by many names: Buju Banton,
Camel Light, the New York Times.
Point being, rickshaws in Scranton.
I have few legs. I sleep on meat.
I’d eat your bra—point being—in a heartbeat.

– Michael Robbins

“It is time for the Christian bashing to stop and for Christians to no longer be treated like second-class citizens. Anti-Christian bigotry is real and growing. Those who engage in it should be exposed and called to account.”

– Dr. Gary Cass, Chairman and CEO of Christian Anti-Defamation Commission

Um, whatever. I’m with P.Z. Myers on this one: “Second-class citizens who are virtually the only people who can get elected to political office, who whine piteously if anyone fails to kneel before their sacraments, who also claim that this is a Christian nation, who use their faith to justify war, corruption, oppression, greed, and who use their privileged position to deny non-Christians basic rights.”

Flickr + Google Maps = earthalbum.com

“Gasoline is the left-wing fetus.”

– from this Metafilter thread

These guys are either idiots or total badasses.

Scientists plan to ignite tiny man-made star. I love it.

Nothing says motivation like Hunter S. Thompson motivational posters do.

Winter Solstice

Originally uploaded by s t e p h e r

We’re Witnessing the Return of Religion as a Principle Cause of Warfare.

Did it ever really go away?

Oktapodi.

Beautiful videos of the night sky in motion.

The 80 best lifehacks of 2008.

Long but rich video with the four horsemen of atheism.

Although I’ve posted this before, I agree with everyone at Reddit. Watch this video.

Interesting Kottke thread on survival tips for the Middle Ages.

Now that absinthe is finally legal in the U.S., you’ll be wanting to know where to get the good stuff.

Are you a teacher? Try out this plagiarism checker.

My new favorite blog.