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Atheist Church Coming to Your City?

I’m interested to see where this goes. There are groups forming in the Bay Area, but not the East Bay.

The Sunday Assembly

The Sunday Assembly is a godless congregation that meets to hear great talks, sing songs and generally celebrate the wonder of life. It’s a service for anyone who wants to live better, help often and wonder more.

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Pure is a responsive CSS framework

As the demand ramps up to make everything responsive, I’m out looking for ways to make it easier. This might help.

Pure

A set of small, responsive CSS modules that you can use in every web project.

13 years in jail for scribbling in chalk

He was found not guilty.

California man faces 13 years in jail for scribbling anti-bank messages in chalk — RT USA

Jeff Olson, the 40-year-old man who is being prosecuted for scrawling anti-megabank messages on sidewalks in water-soluble chalk last year now faces a 13-year jail sentence. A judge has barred his attorney from mentioning freedom of speech during trial.

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Get Nautilus 3.4 Features Back In Ubuntu 13.04

Yes. Completely necessary. I gave it a few hours trying to cope with not having a way to open nested folders. It’s a terrible time suck.

The constant experimentation with UX in each new version of Ubuntu has become irritating. Not quite irritating enough yet to switch, but it’s getting close.

Get Nautilus 3.4 Features Back In Ubuntu 13.04 With SolusOS Patched Nautilus ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog

Get Nautilus 3.4 Features Back In Ubuntu 13.04 With SolusOS Patched Nautilus ~ Ubuntu / Linux blog

Filmmakers to excavate Atari E.T. landfill

They should make a monster movie instead. Excavating the landfill should wake a 50 foot tall version of E.T. who punishes us for creating pollution.

Documentary filmmakers to excavate infamous Atari E.T. landfill

Canada-based film production company Fuel Industries has obtained permission from the City Commission of Alamogordo, New Mexico to excavate a landfill containing a large quantity of unsold Atari 2600 games, for the purpose of filming a documentary. Local news outlet KRQE reports that Fuel Industries will have access to the site over the next six months.

5 HTML5 Features you need to know

All good.

5 HTML5 Features you need to know – Adnane Belmadiaf’s Blog

HTML5 has been around for a while now, it introduces lots of new and exciting new JavaScript and HTML APIs for both mobile and desktop, so in this post you will discover some HTML5 features that will enhance your web apps and will save you a lot of time.

Is your sunscreen causing cancer?

I do much better when I get my 30 minutes of sun and then cover up with clothing.

Is your sunscreen causing cancer?

The majority of sunscreens on the market today are more harmful than beneficial.  Sunscreens are designed to decrease your risk of skin cancer and allow you to enjoy the sun without worry.  Unfortunately, most modern day sunscreens may increase your risk of cancer and disrupt the functioning of your hormones (14, 15).

Sucralose affects insulin response

Granted this is somewhat narrower than my title suggests, but it should make you think twice about eating sucralose (Splenda).

Diabetes Care | Mobile

OBJECTIVE Nonnutritive sweeteners (NNS), such as sucralose, have been reported to have metabolic effects in animal models. However, the relevance of these findings to human subjects is not clear. We evaluated the acute effects of sucralose ingestion on the metabolic response to an oral glucose load in obese subjects.

PHP on Google App Engine

Seems like more trouble than it’s worth.

PHP Overview – Google App Engine — Google Developers

App Engine applications can be implemented using the PHP programming language. This developer guide introduces the standard interfaces and explains how to use them with App Engine, as well as the raw APIs and development tools included in the App Engine PHP SDK.

Anno Online open beta

 

Anno Online sails into open beta | Joystiq

Ubisoft’s Anno Online has opened the city gates for an open beta, granting all access to the free-to-play city building strategy game. Interested lords and ladies should set course to anno-online.com for access. New players logging in during the first week of the open beta will receive a “premium ship.” Players who participated in the closed beta will receive several rewards. The greatest gift? Their data won’t be wiped per the standard beta transition, so they can continue on.