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And on a related note, tomorrow’s the 4th Blogoversary for Techgnosisweb.. what are you doing to celebrate?

Been looking for this cover of ‘Word Up’ ever since I heard it the other week on CSI. Excellent stuff, and I figured I’d share.

Download ‘Willis - Word Up’ here.
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Sadistic equine necrophiliac Dinesh D’Souza just refuses to get the point, doesn’t he? This is his third little article on the whole ‘atheists are evil’ bandwagon, all capitalizing on the VT tragedy. Seriously, how much of a nasty, contemptible, snide, reptilian little scumbag can one human being be? Still, there is one good thing coming from his continuing, if laughable, attack on atheism: some truly inspired atheists are coming out and denouncing both the man and the point of view. Case in point: this Virgina Tech professor, who has written an impassioned and brilliant response to D’souza. Among the other things he says:

We atheists do not believe in gods, or angels, or demons, or souls that endure, or a meeting place after all is said and done where more can be said and done and the point of it all revealed. We don’t believe in the possibility of redemption after our lives, but the necessity of compassion in our lives. We believe in people, in their joys and pains, in their good ideas and their wit and wisdom. We believe in human rights and dignity, and we know what it is for those to be trampled on by brutes and vandals. We may believe that the universe is pitilessly indifferent but we know that friends and strangers alike most certainly are not. We despise atrocity, not because a god tells us that it is wrong, but because if not massacre then nothing could be wrong.

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With or without a belief in a god, with or without your asinine bigotry, we will make progress, we will breathe life back into our university, I will succeed in explaining this or that point, slowly, eventually, in a ham-handed way, at risk of tears half-way through, my students will come to feel comfortable again in a classroom with no windows or escape route, and hell yes we will prevail.

You see Mr D’Souza, I am an atheist professor at Virginia Tech and a man of great faith. Not faith in your god. Faith in my people.

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The recent tragedy at Virginia Tech, where a deeply disturbed individual went on a rampage and killed at least 33 other people, was a horrible event. It was horrible in terms of human life and potential lost. It was horrible in terms of the emotional damage done to friends, families, and acquaintances of the victims. And, now, it is also horrible due to the opportunistic little ghouls that have crawled out of the woodwork trying to, first, blame the whole thing on ‘teh terrists’, and then, once it turned out that the shooter was not Islamic, to try and blame (brace for it)… evolution and atheism. I wish I was making this shit up. (This is gonna be long and quote-heavy, so I’ll plop it all behind the ‘more-wall’)
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Evo pointed out this new service called iStalkr, which basically aggregates all of one’s disparate Web 2.0 social rss feeds into one handy dandy place, so that instead of having to visit 4 or 5 different services to stalk me, one can just subscribe to my iStalkr meta-feed, and keep track of all of them at once (plus, any new services I might start using will be added to that feed, and you’ll automatically follow those too, without having to do anything! I added this blog, my Tumblr feed, my Twitter feed, and my Flickr feed (update: just added my blogHUD, Digg and del.icio.us feeds too.. am I forgetting any?), and it’s already getting rave reviews. As my good friend Monster just told me over IM:

How creepy is that?

Answer: very, very creepy. Go check my meta-feed out and add it to your Netvibes/Firefox/RSS reader of choice.
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I think it’s about that time again, to change the look of this site. Over the past few years that I’ve run Techgnosisweb, it’s had a couple different looks, from dark and personal to more light and airy. But as time goes on, things change, my other domains come due for renewal, and I think it’s time to mix things up a bit more around here. Not only that, but I’ve started doing a lot more micro-blogging, as it were, with posts on Twitter, the Katsustumbling blog, my Flickr feed, etc. So, I believe I’m going to try and change the look of this place once more, but not just the look, but the actual functionality a bit. I think I’ll make this site into the main hub of my onine activities, but have more obvious links and displays to the other services where I post. Thus, I will keep posting my random moment-to-moment thoughts on Twitter, links and cool things I want to point at on Katsustumbling, pics through Flickr, and more thought-out posts here, but I will set up display elements, windows, badges, whatever, so that they can all be seen from here, rather than having to visit 3 or 4 different sites. Ought to be interesting to see what I can come up with. Wish me luck!

Spending a Sunday night in Second Life, listening to Matthew Ebel at the Dirty U-Turn Cafe… not too shabby! Hes watching us dance to his stuff online as he plays live, and this is pretty damn sweet.
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