The American Midwest

Capuchins have a new website...

Midwest Capuchins

If you're not a friend of a Franciscan, or a fan of St. Francis or Franciscans in general, it may not interest you, but God has worked mightily through our Orders for centuries...

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A fun website

that I visit once in a while is Picture is Unrelated. They can have some hilarious photos sometimes (along with a few rude ones, but those are the risks.)

How Many Potatoes Died For Your Meal?

They've had a run of quite a few good ones lately...

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This is

a controversial position for some, but it's part of a discussion that needs to take place, and needs to continue.

Losing our minds to the web

"An influential new American book claims that the internet is damaging teenagers’ brains and our ability to think. But the web’s real dangers lurk elsewhere "

(Oh, and a great graphic too!)

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I've blogged this before

I don't know how any of you feel about this sort of website:

Conservapedia

Sometimes the articles can cause the steam to rise from me, but other times I just laugh and laugh at some of their lunacy. They might criticize the left, but there's a lot of really loony right-wingers out there...

SWMBO, you may want to give it a miss. More fools not to be suffered if you're not in the mood...

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I guess it's a good thing

Wikipedia unlocks divisive pages for editing

"The online encyclopaedia Wikipedia says it has taken an "important step" towards making it easier to edit some of its most controversial articles. "

But here's the quotation I love from Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia:

"These have had to be semi-protected for years just because they are too tempting for naughty people to try something funny"

"naughty people". Heh.

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Don't forget...

...today is Quit Facebook Day!


We're Quitting Facebook

If you haven't decided to quit yet, read the site and think about it...

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Monday is...

Quit Facebook Day!


We're Quitting Facebook

Take a look at the website, read their position and analysis, and decide for yourself. It may be a drop in the bucket, but it sends a message...

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A special day!

For all you philosophers out there, on this date in 1724, 
Immanuel Kant was born...



Also, and some would say, more importantly, , on this date in 1993, Mosaic 1.0, the first real, usable graphical web browser was released. Without Mosaic, where would the World Wide Web be?

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How about

to establish categories? (Notice the lack of clip art?)

Clip art makes you stupid

"The use of clip art in documents and e-mails has been found to actively and passively lower your intelligence. New finding in survey"

Of course, any website that calls itself 'the epicentre' of anything, particularly science and technology, is opening itself to a fair amount of criticism.

But that's just stupid ol' me making that there comment. Un-huh. Hyuck, hyuck...

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It's about the forums themselves

I thought this was an atheist website!

"It is of course wrong to rejoice in the suffering of others. But when the angst is on the website of Richard Dawkins, a little schadenfreude on the part of the habitual recipients of the world's most famous atheist's vitriol is perhaps understandable, says Mark Howe."

It takes real commitment and dedication to make a forum of any kind work...

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What can one say?

New website to examine harms of pornography ‘pandemic’

There's nothing else to say, really. Other than it's ironic that the intertubes are being used to educate people about a pandemic that is partly caused by the intertubes. It is a real problem, though. I know of people that this has effected directly, and at least one marriage that has ended as a result of it...

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You might enjoy

some of these sites...


40 Fantastic Time-Wasting Web Sites

"Sure, you should probably be working. But why bother when you can vaporize hours by checking out these engaging Web sites?"

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Perhaps,

given the season, it's time to post a link to Annie Leonard's

The Story of Stuff.

Get comfortable and watch this animation. It's brilliant, and so, so true. You'll see things differently after you watch it...

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Looking for a few good miracles?

The Miracle Hunter

I haven't had time to look at this website in detail, but they do specifically post the various Church documents on apparitions, and they do seem to be dealing with them all in a mature, non-sensational manner that follows Church teaching. It bears more looking at. It's a nice looking website, too...

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As a general tool

it has its place, but as a tool for scholars...?

Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars

But, apparently, there is hope...

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Disgusting

One of the favourite hobbies of a lot of people seems to be making fun of other people...

Viral Web site mocks Wal-Mart customers

These people aren't mocking Wal-Mart (which I could agree with), they're mocking the people who use Wal-Mart. They're picking on people they see as 'different'. (If they saw these people in a trendy bar in a group they'd probably think they're cool, but never mind that.) The fact is that they've caught the cruelness gene in others and now lots of people are participating. It makes me wonder what they look like themselves? Are they so 'cool' as to be true 'normal' people? What makes them so special that they can mock others? Just wondering.

This is a good example of the intertubes used for a not-very-good purpose...

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Film reviews

I love film. Watching movies is a hobby of mine. (This might account for the fact that I have no friends or it may be what I do because I have no friends, but whatever.) I've always loved film. There's lots of good film review sites on the 'net, but pretty much my favourite is

Reelviews

by James Berardinelli. He's a young man with a good eye for film, both technical and artistic, and a good writing style. He makes a good film critic. Like anyone, there are time I disagree with his opinions and reviews, partially or completely, but none-the-less, he's always interesting. If you like film you might want to give his site a look...

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I posted about this

lawsuit just the other day...

Catholic media entrepreneur settles lawsuit, agrees to pay $200,000

Of course the good Catholic individuals and organizations who were successful were engaged against him in an "anti-Catholic campaign to spread agenda-driven bigotry using the legal system. And he's likely the only good Catholic involved in the whole thing. That would be the normal refrain from someone who lost a case. Notice that he makes a big thing out of not having to make an admission of being guilty of fraud. He lost, but he's not guilty. Oh, that darn justice system. They're all out to get him!

For anyone

who didn't know, or anyone who forgot, at 8:30 p.m. tonight it's

Earth Hour.

Vote for the earth!

A wonderfully talented

writer, singer, actor, and just generally multi-talented fellow I know, Ed Willett, has a regular column on interesting things...


Featured Column

The topic may change before you get to his site, but he does have an archive. I think he's remarkably talented, he's a very nice person, and I really do enjoy his fiction...