I actually took Religion in High School. It was an interesting class to say the least, but didn't sway my opinions on anything religion wise.

In fact, it was one of my reasons for becoming an Atheist. It's where I found out that Jesus wasn't the first "Miraculous" birth, in fact, Zoroaster and Buddha were also born in the exact same fashion.

My favourite part of the class, however, was the field trip. We went to three places, a Hindu temple, a Mosque, and a Buddhist temple.

Hindu temple and Mosque were interesting, but nothing special. The Buddhist temple though was nifty, I walked into the main hall and there were 3 giant golden Buddha statues there, with thousands of candles lit around the room. I was amazed by this, and eager to learn about it expecting our tour guide to be a monk of sorts.

Turns out he was a little middle-aged white guy, who turned out to be a dick. When asked "Why did you become a Buddhist?" we all expected some result that included soul searching, or because of it's outlook on everything. The exact answer we got was "Well, my friends were something different, so I decided to be different, too."

Needless to say, by the end of our tour, none of us were too impressed with this guy. Chinese new years was coming up so they showed us the basement that was being decorated in silks and lanterns, and looked pretty cool. The guide asked us "So, any of you know how to say 'Happy new year' in Chinese?" with a slight smirk on his face.

I looked him square in the eye and said "Happy new year in Chinese."

That's when we got kicked out of the temple.

Worth it.

>> ^geo321:

fail. Too bad they didn't have this nifty gas station alarm... http://videosift.com/video/NO-SMOKING-at-the-Gas-Station


Holy Crap!

*fail. Too bad they didn't have this nifty gas station alarm... http://videosift.com/video/NO-SMOKING-at-the-Gas-Station

These sorts of products have existed for years in Japan, why should Tupperware get the flak for taking the fun out of making sushi? This looks like a nifty alternative for people who don't want to faff about with bamboo mats.

Yes! Nifty star powers!

*Sorry, I meant check out the atheist one in my unsifted...lol, I got to get some sleep or my head will explode...or wither to nothing, I cannot tell.

Speaking of your avatar, there was a little article on Sylvia Ji in today's 'mx' (free newspaper), and as sooon as I saw one of her paintings it was "hey, I know her work" She's in Melbourne this week with a pop-up exhibition.
In reply to this comment by AdrianBlack:
I love what they did with the theme, and a nifty little animation to go with, thanks! The Daleks are adorable.


(I thought I would go a little opposite of the color-wheel this time, I'm glad you like it!)

I love what they did with the theme, and a nifty little animation to go with, thanks! The Daleks are adorable.


(I thought I would go a little opposite of the color-wheel this time, I'm glad you like it!)

In reply to this comment by oritteropo:
Also, an animated music video by a band who are awfully fond of Dr. Who:

http://videosift.com/video/An-Awful-Lot-of-Running-Chameleon-Circuit

Interesting avatar btw

secret ingredient is ferric iron oxide powder, used to make black oil painting pigment, sold at art supply stores.

pretty nifty!

upvote for the nifty shades that colonel sanders is wearing.

and what bigotry is that? by god, i was just called a knob-gobbler by some cretin who believes that homosexuals are beneath him! what a lout! i'll be sure to explain to him your theories on ethnocentric bias, by golly. as we both know, you're incapable of committing ethnocentric bias -- cultural jack-of-all-trades that you are -- and will not have to worry about being seen as a shitty holier-than-thou hypocrite.

In reply to this comment by GenjiKilpatrick:
Alas, you would be wrong to assume that.

That would be entail - C. fallacy of refutation: straw person

Here, look on this nifty chart. You'll probably need it later on.

But again, what does any of this have to do with your bigotry?
[Which you clearly understand and accept.]

In reply to this comment by solecist:
says the guy who just called us thick-skulled knob-gobblers. what is a knob-gobbler, genji? am i right in assuming that you've just used a term referencing male homosexuality in a negative manner? sounds like ethnocentric bias to me. i would know, because some pretentious twat just told me all about it.

Alas, you would be wrong to assume that.

That would be entail - C. fallacy of refutation: straw person

Here, look on this nifty chart. You'll probably need it later on.

But again, what does any of this have to do with your bigotry?
[Which you clearly understand and accept.]

In reply to this comment by solecist:
says the guy who just called us thick-skulled knob-gobblers. what is a knob-gobbler, genji? am i right in assuming that you've just used a term referencing male homosexuality in a negative manner? sounds like ethnocentric bias to me. i would know, because some pretentious twat just told me all about it.

nifty. She turned off the camera with her bow!

Nifty!

Nifty and *brief

I think you just got unlucky. I've had a bad string with Samsung including phones and laptops breaking quickly and a hard drive failing but when so many people seem happy, it's hard to really draw aspersions.

Asus has been fine for me, although the last thing I bought from them was a motherboard quite a while ago.

I do give them cred for being more innovative than most of the other hardware makers. They've got a whole bunch of novel slates/tablets coming out or already released, they essentially invented the netbook, and now they came up with this which really does seem pretty nifty.>> ^xxovercastxx:

>> ^kronosposeidon:
Still looks pretty half-assed to me, but I'm sure there are plenty of geeks who want to be the first nerd on the block to get this.

Nah, man, not if you accept the implication that 'geeks' know what they're doing.
See, Asus is well known for making garbage that just barely lasts through the warranty period before total failure. I learned this the hard way many years ago as the owner of 2 Asus video cards (the second of which was the warranty replacement of the first) and an Asus motherboard which I believe died within a week of the warranty expiration. The first video card died after roughly 60 days (90 day warranty) and the replacement lived maybe another 4-5 months.
Their netbooks seem to be a recent exception, though I understand support is still useless if you do have a problem. Maybe someone else manufactures them.
The big question here is what will you do with your fancy cardboard box when the crap inside of it sizzles?