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Facebook, it just keeps geting worse.

Facebook is like Twitter if, by default, twitter started keeping track of where you were and making sure everyone knew it all the time, if twitter uploaded embarrassing pictures of you, if twitter made sure all of your old ex girlfriends knew exactly what all of your IM account names are, what your favorite web site is, and where you park your car, and on top of all that, it kept piping the same inane useless information that it does now, about what everybody you know (and everybody they know (and everybody they know))  is doing or thinking or not thinking or throwing up Read the rest of this entry »

The machines are coming for us.

wallace asked this question in a comment at venganza.org:

so basically you’re saying theres no actual flying spaghetti monster and that all this just satire.

He misses an important point: it could be satire and still be true. Pastafarians have much more faith than other religions.  Allow me to explain.

Let’s talk about faith. Faith is belief in the absence of proof. For example, Christians believe in their God in spite of a near-total lack of evidence. The strength of these firmly held beliefs demands respect, it is claimed, because this faith exists in the absence of proof.

If this is true, then Pastafarians are in a position to demand even more Read the rest of this entry »