Here’s a nice article from the Austin American-Statesman about Matt Dillahunty, president of the Atheist Community of Austin and host of both the weekly television show “The Atheist Experience” and the Internet radio show called “The Non-Prophets.” The article talks about how atheism was a far cry from the path Dillahunty was “supposed” to follow: Dillahunty’s vocation is shocking for his parents, who raised him in a devout Southern Baptist home and had once expected him to enter ministry. Dillahunty’s… Read more
My family is visiting Arizona for a few days, so blogging will be slow until I get back. But while I’m here, I’ll check out the Grand Canyon and see what all the fuss is about 🙂 I don’t travel very often with my Jain parents, but since I started going to more atheist conferences/events a couple years ago, they’ve tried to at least see things from my perspective. They are starting to learn a bit about atheism, but they… Read more
I was reading Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail, and I came across a part where he talked about the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC). He was arguing that our old ways of classifying information (in this example, the DDC) didn’t work so well in the modern world. Here’s a typical breakdown (PDF) you would see in a library: 000 Computer science, information & general works 100 Philosophy & psychology 200 Religion 300 Social sciences 400 Language 500 Science 600 Technology 700… Read more
