Dark Ages

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• New mathematical model aids Big Bang supercomputer research

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 574
  Scientists have made many discoveries about the origins of our 13 billion-year-old universe. But many scientific mysteries remain. What exactly happened during the Big Bang, when rapidly evolving...
  2 days ago

• Leeches of Shame

  
  Authspot — Authority: 482
  The demonic lord sits on his throne, His legions of depravity awaiting his orders. The mouths water at the thought of glamour, A hunger beyond humiliation. They feed on the glitter, the pomp of society, And tarnish the best souls into oblivion. Decrepit minds yearn without thought, Devouring all that they find. ...
  2 days ago

• Irelands Ridiculous Blasphemy Law Goes Into Effect

  
  Little Green Footballs — Authority: 585
  As of January 1st, Ireland has enacted an atavistic law that makes “blasphemy” punishable by a fine of up to $35,000. It’s amazing that a civilized country in 2010 is deliberately putting in place laws from the Dark Ages. An Irish atheist group immediately challenged this stupid and dangerous legislation by ...
  5 days ago

• What More Proof Do You Need?

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 501
  Bob emails: Remember the Jesus tortilla from the 80’s? Like an edible Shroud of Turin. Khunrum emails: “This reminds me of a true Tejas story from when I was a young immigrant to the state. Someone discovered what they perceived to be the likeness of Jesus on the side of a barn. Thousands came from all over. ...
  1 week ago

• Dark Ages Redux : Trickle Down Feudalism

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 519
  Doge Enrico Dandolo preaching the Crusade. Gustave Doré (1832-1883) / Wikimedia Commons.The reincarnation of the Dark Ages:White evangelicals are the new CrusadersIn place of mote-defended castles surrounded by thatched-roof shanties will be gated communities (sporting high-tech surveillance to keep the homeless and ...
  1 week ago

• Catholic groups support Senate on abortion aid

  
  Eideard — Authority: 149
  Catholic groups stand up to Bishops over abortion legislation.
  1 week ago

• A modern Dark Age

  
  Bleeding edge blog — Authority: 135
  A modern Dark Age will ensue if we don’t get a functioning Climate deal. If we fail to reach a comprehensive agreement and institute the appropriate science based CO2 reduction within our world economy in the next fully functioning decade – that’s what we will get for our pains. That’s all the time we have ...
  1 week ago

• A Nordic Discussion

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 594
        Hrothgar and Ectheow were enjoying a drink of rum as they were discussing various issues and topics. Ectheow stretched his neck left and right as he was explaining the finer points of theology. “Quite frankly, the whole thing with religion is that it’s dependent on the individual. Some people like to ...
  2 weeks ago

• DBA in December

  
  Tim's Miniature Wargaming Blog — Authority: 117
  For the first three Tuesdays of December I’ve had a pretty regular DBA night going on. On the seventh Gary showed up with his snazzy Vikings and Christian stopped by to hammer on them with my Vikings. On the fourteenth Rick and Jackson showed up and played a couple of Normans versus Anglo-Danish games. Finally , ...
  2 weeks ago

• Recession and the collapse of Roman Britain

  
  Crunchy Con — Authority: 636
  Oxford historian Bryan Ward-Perkins says as bad as the British recession is, its nothing compared to the collapse of the economy in the British Isles after the withdrawal of the Romans in advance of the Western empires fall. OK, fine, but what does that have to do with us? He explains: The reason the ...
  2 weeks ago

• The last real depression

  
  For What It's Worth — Authority: 159
  Fun article on the collapse of Rome and its affect on England in the Financial Times. Things didn’t go well and stayed bad for hundreds (600 or so)of years. The potter’s wheel disappeared, for heaven’s sake, and stayed disappeared for centuries. How can you lose the wheel? Wow. For two or three hundred years, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Amazing Church & Amazing Story

  
  Tomus Arcanum — Authority: 127
  Ethiopias Cross-Shaped Church Carved out of Unbroken Stone During the so-called Dark Ages, Islam was seen by Europeans as a plague engulfing the East like a black shroud. Spread by fanatics with the Koran in one arm and a blood-stained scimitar in the other, Islam threatened to take Europe as it had the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Shut up and drive: The menace that is mobile technology

  
  The Mobile Fun Blog — Authority: 144
  By Carmi Levy , Betanews I like my toys behind the wheel as much as everyone else. Between my GPS, iPod, BlackBerry, and DVD player, I’ve got enough technology to avoid getting lost, stay entertained, stay connected, and keep my seat-belted kids from beating each other silly. I have no idea how my Luddite ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Education Futures timeline of education

  
  Education Futures — Authority: 111
  Education Futures celebrates its first five years of exploring new futures in human capital development with a timeline of the history of education from 1657-2045 . This timeline provides not only a glimpse into modern education, but plots out a plausible future history for human capital development. The future ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hallelujah! The story of Glory

  
  Che Underground: The Blog — Authority: 116
  (An excerpt from Ray Brandes’ saga of San Diego guitar hero Jerry Raney and his band that shaped the ’70s. Read the full version in Che Underground’s Related Bands section.) In a 1978 Village Voice editorial, music journalist Lester Bangs proclaimed: “The music business today still must be recognized ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ding

  
  It Is What It Is — Authority: 128
  Im moving into the dark ages ! I spent a fiver yesterday on unlimited internet for a month for my shitty old phone, which is less shitty than my last one. Its in colour! Not that that makes much difference... anyway, it can handle HTML , rather than just being WAP like my old one. If you dont understand that bit ...
  3 weeks ago

• Operation Chokehold v. AT&T and The Dark Star

  
  Letters from Septic Land — Authority: 112
  I’ll tell you something — I’m really blown away by the way people have responded to AT&T;’s bastardly behavior over bandwidth usage. Our engineers are friggin livid. And, because they’re engineers, which means they’re basically evil little pricks, they’ve come up with a plan to teach AT&T; a ...
  3 weeks ago

• The real Dark Ages, dulled by fashion and TV

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 953
  We cant sing, dance or paint and we wear ugly clothes. Yet we patronise past centuries as inferiors, says Christopher Howse.
  3 weeks ago

• Women Love Assault, And Other Dating Myths [Dark Ages]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 786
  A new, highly unscientific study from Matchmaker.com, Date.com and Amor.com found that men are more likely to admit to being "depressed and upset" after a breakup. This somehow prompted Joanna Molloy for the NY Daily News to write this: One less bell to answer? One less egg to fry? Hell, after a mani-pedi Ill be ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Fightin’ Irish!

  
  Tim's Miniature Wargaming Blog — Authority: 117
  Here we go – back to the Dark Ages of Europe! Most of the figures are from Gripping Beast (except for one tucked in the back of one of the Blade Stands which is from Old Glory ). (Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version) These are optional two stands of Blade for my Norse Irish DBA army. ...
  4 weeks ago

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