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Anyone who knows me personally knows I’m a world class Dorito fiend. But even I have no idea what this is supposed to mean: Your Thoughts?
Archive for September, 2009
Daily Hilarity: Strange Doritos Logo
September 30th, 2009 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Pop Culture, Unintentional Comedy 
Tags: Ads, Creepy Ads, Doritos, Lost In Translation 
No Comments »My Thoughts On Blasphemy Day
September 30th, 2009 Daniel Fincke So today is “Blasphemy Day.” Here’s what it’s about: Blasphemy Day International is an international campaign seeking to establish September 30th as a national day to promote free speech and stand up in a show of solidarity for the freedom to mock and insult religion without fear of murder, violence, and reprisal. It is the [...]
Stuff Evangelicals Like
September 30th, 2009 Daniel Fincke In the spirit of the sensation Stuff White People Like, comes Stuff Christian Culture Likes which is written by a PK who married a PK. And boy an embarrassing lot of these really take me back. It’s eerie how on target they are. And it’s weird to see some of the newer stuff since I [...]
The Atheist Bus Campaign
September 30th, 2009 Daniel Fincke This video is 8 months old and while the news isn’t as current, but there are great little discussions the bus ad’s genesis,the strategy in choosing its message, charges against atheists of militancy, and, finally, the question of why the religious so frequently take offense. Your Thoughts?
Daily Hilarity: The Costs Of Healing
September 30th, 2009 Daniel Fincke (via) Your Thoughts?
Posted in Christianity, Hilarious, Parody, Politics, Religion, Religious Satire, Satire Tags: Comic Pictures, Health Care Reform Debate, Religious Right No Comments »Could We PLEASE Leave The Kids Out Of It??
September 30th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Way high up on my list of pet peeves is children’s choirs where kids are trained sing vapid preachy platitudes. Few things are more obnoxious sounding than a child’s programmed moralizing and it never sounds quite as ugly as when it takes the form of song. So, really, I don’t care if they’re singing about [...]
“It’s A Fact. And There’s No Morality In A Fact.”
September 29th, 2009 Daniel Fincke via PZ Myers: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Evolution, Hilarious, Metaethics, Unintentional Comedy, Videos Tags: Evolution And Morality No Comments »YouTube As Naturally Evolving The Future Of Television And How Google Benefits Off Of YouTube
September 29th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Neat video on how YouTube puts out so much material that we can discover what people actually will choose among a myriad of options and model TV off of it and then on the reach of Google and YouTube’s role in that: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Culture and Technology, Pop Culture, Technology, Videos Tags: Google, Television, Youtube No Comments »Can’t
September 29th, 2009 Daniel Fincke A (morbidly) fun little animated musical video by Ed Stockham for a song by Alan Lastufka and Tom Milsom: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Arts, Indie Music, Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: Alan Lastufka, Animation, Ed Stockham, Tom Milsom No Comments »Confirming Galileo: Hammer Vs. Feather On The Moon
September 29th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Well, you know which one this website’s going to be pulling for: From the YouTube information listings: WEBSITE: http://www.teachertube.com On the surface of the Moon at Hadley Rille Apollo 15 Commander David Scott verifies Galileo’s discovery that all objects in gravity fields fall at the same speed. (via) Your Thoughts?
Posted in Astronomy, Physics, Videos Tags: Apollo 15, Commander David Scott, Galileo, Gravity, Hadley Rille, Moon No Comments »The Predictive Power Of Game Theory
September 29th, 2009 Daniel Fincke In this clip from The Daily Show, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita discusses predicting world affairs using models based on game theory to an extraordinarily high degree of accuracy (twice that of the CIA by their own estimation). It’s really exciting stuff: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Bruce Bueno [...]
Posted in Hilarious, Moral Psychology, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Psychology, Social Sciences, Videos, World Affairs Tags: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Decision Theory, Game Theory, Jon Stewart, The Daily Show, The Predictioneer's Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future No Comments »More Info On The Birther Infomercial
September 29th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Princess relays this video about the Birthers and those exploiting them. Money quote from Rachel Maddow: Birtherism may have been disproven, it may be becoming a political punchline even on the American right. But it’s also apparently becoming a really good scam for raising money off gullible, sad people. Which probably means it’s here to [...]
Posted in Fundamentalism, Politics, Videos Tags: Bill Keller, Birtherism, Birthers, Conservatives, Gullibility, Rachel Maddow, Scams No Comments »Disorderly Genius: How Chaos Drives The Brain
September 29th, 2009 Daniel Fincke A really fascinating video: For more read the New Scientist article here and also take a listen to the last fascinating third of this episode of Radiolab on stochasticity. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Philosophy of Mind, Psychology, Science, Videos Tags: Brain, Chaos To Order, Cognitive Neuroscience, Mind, Thinking No Comments »Humanist Symposium #43
September 29th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Check out the latest edition of the Humanist Symposium,hosted at Prior Perceptions.
Philosophy In-Joke Hilarity Galore
September 29th, 2009 Daniel Fincke When you do philosophy for a living, philosophy novices are frequently inflicting on you the same small stock of stale and unimaginative philosophy jokes and overrated Monty Python philosophy related sketches. So that’s probably why I find this contemporary, philosophically acute, esoteric latest comic strip from Chaos Pet strip a breath of fresh, hilarious air: [...]
Posted in Comic Strips, Hilarious, Parody, Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind Tags: Chaos Pet, Philosophy of Mind Zombies No Comments »Judge This: Should The US Military Be Sponsoring The Proselytization Of US Troops?
September 29th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Unreasonable Faith reports on news that it’s already happening: “Operation Straight Up” has been allowed to provide entertainment to troops with the goal of “sharing the gospel with soldiers in combat” — something they say has never been allowed before: Capt. Chris Plekenpol, a spokesman for OSU, was responsible for the lives of 100 men [...]
The Benefits Of Vaccination
September 29th, 2009 Daniel Fincke For sharing with that special anti-vaccination fanatic in your life… Your Thoughts?
Daily Hilarity: Mr. Deity And Da Man
September 29th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Brand new Mr. Deity: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Comedy, Hilarious, Mr. Deity, Parody, Religious Satire, Satire, Videos Tags: Adam, Eve, Garden of Eden No Comments »The Meaning Of Life
September 28th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Today I had the distinct pleasure of reconnecting with one of my closest friends and classmates from my college days for the first time in 6 years. He’s a friend with whom I spent some of the most formative philosophical years of my life and who, as a result, I will always consider to be [...]
Posted in Bob Dylan, Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: Desolation Row, Friendship, Personal No Comments »Lights, Camera, Ethics!
September 28th, 2009 Daniel Fincke The ethics lectures of Harvard’s Michael J. Sandel are getting high quality video presentation and dissemination: it is the first time that public broadcasters can remember a regular college course’s being presented on television. What’s more, it is also a highly produced multimedia event, with high-definition video, interactive Webcasts, podcasts, a new book and a [...]
Posted in Education, Ethics, News Tags: Birth Order, Harvard University, Itunes, John Rawls, Merit, Michael Sandel, Mr. Burns, PBS, Philosophers In Public Eye, Philosophy News, Sanders Theater, The Simpsons No Comments »Daily Hilarity: Carroll Senior Powder Cheerleaders 2009-2010
September 28th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Philosophers’ Blog Carnival
September 28th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Welcome to The Philosophers’ Blog Carnival at Camels With Hammers! (via Peter Mandik’s Brain Hammer) First I want to kick things off with a super post not actually submitted to the carnival but worth your attention nonetheless. Phil Goetz writes: The history of religions sometimes resembles the history of viruses. Judaism and Islam were both highly virulent [...]
Posted in Featured, Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind Tags: Andrew Bernardin, Bertrand Russell, Blog Carnival, Brains, Brian Leiter, Chaos Pet, Creationists, David Chalmers, David Gross, Einstein, Eric Thomson, Hard Problem For Consciousness, Heisenberg, John Ku, Karl Popper, Kenny Pearce, Kierkegaard, Neuroscience, Phil Goetz, Philosophers' Blog Carnival, Prior Adams, Richard B. Hoppe, Ruby Quines, Scientific Curiosity, Xenia 9 Comments »Camels With Hammers Philosophy
September 27th, 2009 Daniel Fincke After this introductory paragraph, every sentence in this post will summarize and link a different post expressing my views, primarily on topics related to atheism, philosophy, and ethics—which are the primary preoccupations of this blog. I am organizing all of these links into this one summary statement of “Camels With Hammers’ Philosophy.” This post will [...]
Posted in About This Blog, Applied Ethics, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Authoritarianism, Authority, Autonomy, Christianity, Contemporary Ethics, Cultural Secularism, Duty, Epistemology, Ethical Pluralism, Ethics, Evolutionary Psychology, Faith, Featured, Fundamentalism, God, Historical Ethics, Historical Philosophy, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Intellectual Vices, Intellectual Virtues, Metaethics, Metaphysics, Moral Psychology, Nietzsche, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Political Secularism, Politics, Psychology, Religion and Science, Religious Extremism, Religious Rights, Religious Secularism, Secularism, Sociobiology, Teleology, Virtues, Why I Am Not A Christian Tags: Camels With Hammers 3 Comments »
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