Links of Possible Relevance, Part 2

The quintessential Enlightenment-nonsense song gets the comic treatment.

A List Apart, instead of being a resource for UI/UX industry thought and trend, will soon be a platform for constant social-political hand-wringing, finger-wagging and other such compound-word descriptors. Such is the chosen way of all tech sub-industries, it seems.

If you’re a man, you need to know how to fold a suit for travel or shipping.

A band covers Dream Theater’s “Erotomania” using kid’s toys, and they mostly pull it off.

The Bigotry of the New Atheism (by an Old Atheist): “Institutions claiming to embody Christianity or Islam have murdered thousands. Institutions claiming to embody Marxism, National Socialism, or other types of socialism, have murdered tens of millions.”

Didn’t you know the sun is electric, hollow, and interdimensional?

An (perhaps the) earmark of a collectivist is that they do not want dissenters leaving peacefully—they must conform or be killed.

2 Comments

  • Ed Hurst says:

    Re: your first link — No, it’s not an attack on your religion unless you religion assumes a non-Western epistemology. Indeed, the ultimate Enlightenment nonsense.

  • Jay says:

    Good point, Ed. You reminded me of that one C.S. Lewis quote:

    “A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.”

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