Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Dec 5, 2009, 5:40 pm
I know, it’s been quiet here. I’ve not even been excusably ill the last few days. I’m still eking out the odd hundred words or so here and there, but I’m not so fired up about ...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Dec 2, 2009, 5:39 pm
Yep, the latest blog carnival is up over at Effort Sisyphus. At least, it starts there. But the journey that ensues may take you down many weird and wonderful paths, if you dare to follow the white ra...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Dec 1, 2009, 5:59 pm
So yesterday a debate was sparked off on Twitter by the whole Climategate thing. I’m not sufficiently informed on the subject to blog about that in detail, but it seems it’s being dramatic...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Nov 30, 2009, 5:59 pm
- President Obama’s proclamation for Thanksgiving was unique in that he didn’t mention God, except when quoting George Washington. So, he sort of did bring him up. But still, LifeSiteNews ...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Nov 29, 2009, 3:42 pm
I used to believe in some wacky stuff. It didn’t seem all that wacky at the time, of course. When I first started taking an interest in the stuff I was reading online, about people’s reli...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Nov 27, 2009, 5:14 pm
Or specifically, why I am not an apatheist. I’m not exactly sure how long the term’s been in common usage (and you know how I feel about doing research), but I’d guess it’s on...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Nov 26, 2009, 5:54 pm
... who read this to react in the same way as me: by hearing Richard Herring’s voice in their head saying “What reeeaaaaaalllly happened” and being greatly ... whether they can m...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Nov 24, 2009, 5:18 pm
Well, I’m healthy enough to be annoyed, so I guess that’s something. I found this news story this morning, and skimmed it briefly, but didn’t pay a great deal of attention, and I wa...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Nov 20, 2009, 5:19 pm
I’m not dead! I feel fine! I feel… Well, no, I don’t feel great. Bleh. Recovering after a week of ick. Need a comfier chair. Wouldn’t mind a more waterproof ceiling. Too lazy...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Nov 14, 2009, 3:25 pm
So, Carrie Prejean’s been in the news again lately. I’m not desperately interested in why, but having reminded myself of why I’ve heard of her in the first place, I wanted to try art...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Nov 13, 2009, 5:27 pm
This is my Skeptictionary entry on the whole Mayan calendar 2012 apocalypse idea. So, according to some, the Mayans believed that… Actually, you know what? I’m just going to wait this on...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Nov 11, 2009, 12:35 pm
Just a quick review before I go and do stuff. Spoilerific bits have been rot13‘d. So it was a fun movie. It’s a fairly heavily fictionalised account of recent paranormal research conducte...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Nov 9, 2009, 5:30 pm
Carl Sagan was completely awesome. There’s a lot of people talking all over the internet today about how they wouldn’t be a part of the skeptical movement if it weren’t for him. The...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Nov 8, 2009, 5:59 pm
(Which you know means I’ve been lazy today and am struggling to get something done before bed.) I can’t find the letter of October 19th referred to in this post, perhaps because I donR...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Nov 7, 2009, 10:54 am
There are two methods you can use to bend spoons. (They both work just as well on forks, keys, and a variety of other objects, usually small and metallic. Spoons are traditional.) The first one is to...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Nov 6, 2009, 6:13 pm
So I’m in the middle of reading Bruce Hood’s Supersense, and so far it’s looking like a really worthwhile read. I’m going to wait till I’ve followed his reasoning through...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Nov 5, 2009, 5:59 pm
I’m pretty confident that I won’t be praying before I die. Never mind all that “no atheists in foxholes” bollocks. I’m confident in my non-belief. I’m not just pet...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Nov 2, 2009, 4:44 pm
I’ve not been getting enough sleep lately, so I’m going to spend a couple of days shirking my responsibilities and going to bed early. I’ll have something interesting to say again in...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Nov 1, 2009, 5:59 pm
It’s still the weekend, ergo, I still suck. I’m redrafting the next Skeptictionary post, but for now, all I’ve got is a quick plug for the latest Carnival of the Godless. This week&...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Oct 31, 2009, 6:04 pm
I suck at weekends. I’ve done nothing useful today. But something earlier reminded me about this, and for lack of anything else worth saying I’m going to talk about maths some more. I say ...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Oct 30, 2009, 6:48 pm
Oh god I love this thread at FAIL Blog so much. You’re probably not a maths geek, so it might not mean much to you, but think about how much fun it is when people who don’t quite know what...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Oct 28, 2009, 6:06 pm
... sexes are being referred to as… “opposite-sex marriages”. Perhaps they would have preferred a less biased and more family ... 8217;t being told that “some male-on-male se...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Oct 27, 2009, 6:28 pm
Here’s a fun drinking game. Watch this video of some homeopathic woo-merchant talking about mass-energy equivalence… …and knock back a shot every time you involuntarily frown in be...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Oct 26, 2009, 6:20 pm
The British Chiropractic Association continue to plunge ever more convincingly away from competent discussion and toward incoherent babbling. Alun Salt has done a little research, and it turns out th...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Oct 24, 2009, 6:17 pm
What’s the connection, you ask? Well, they’re both the subject of the blog post you’re reading now. Yeah, I’m not really tying them together in any way. Actually I’ve ju...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Oct 23, 2009, 5:51 pm
If centuries of theology and philosophy and religious apologetics and dialectic debate haven’t been enough to persuade you of the totally genuine and absolutely real existence of God, then get r...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Oct 22, 2009, 6:26 pm
Nick Griffin, chairman of the British National Party, was on the political BBC series Question Time earlier tonight. There’s been a lot of controversy over the decision to invite him on, and whe...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Oct 21, 2009, 6:07 pm
One day I will write up an actual conspiracy theory article myself. I’ve made a start on a couple, but with the case of 9/11 in particular, I find myself getting bogged down in some really compl...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Oct 20, 2009, 5:10 pm
I hope I’m not too late with this. I was only just alerted to this post by Simon Perry, encouraging UK residents to write to their MP, asking them to get involved in the debate in parliament to...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Oct 19, 2009, 5:34 pm
Never has a post so failed to live up to the implicit promise of its title. I don’t often post links to stuff here that has no skeptical angle at all, and is just so mind-bendingly disturbing t...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Oct 18, 2009, 7:24 am
Alright, settle down, class, settle down. Come on, you’ve had your fun. It’s time for our- who threw that? Come on, who was it? I’ve warned you before about what’ll happen if y...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Oct 16, 2009, 3:32 pm
People have been doing magic for thousands of years. It’s never worked. A bold and sweeping claim, perhaps, but no-one who knows me would deny either that I am bold or that I sweep. So I stand ...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Oct 15, 2009, 3:36 pm
Maybe I’m a latent law geek and never knew it. I guess it’s possible. I’ve never studied law, or had any reason to look into the possibility of studying it, so it might be a hidden ...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Oct 14, 2009, 3:19 pm
I tried coming up with a pun title, or at least something interestingly descriptive, but I appear to have failed, and ended up being boringly bland and perfunctory. I shall now write the bit of my bl...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Oct 13, 2009, 5:21 pm
Today, a round-up of interesting links, which I don’t have more than a few sentences to say about. (I originally typed that sentence making sure I didn’t end it with a preposition, but it ...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Oct 12, 2009, 6:25 pm
Seriously, how do you not love an article with a title like Spaceship Jesus Will Come Back and Whisk Us Away? It sounds like something I’d say to casually take the piss out of one third of the w...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Oct 11, 2009, 6:28 pm
Why does everyone coming to my blog want to know about Kent Hovind at the moment? Here’s your update: he’s still a dick. Anyway. I’ve read over this Working Preacher piece again, an...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Oct 9, 2009, 1:41 pm
I’ve got a jam-packed social life again tonight (I know! That’s, what, twice in a month?) but for the sake of posting something today, have a link to an article that one of my Jesus-holic ...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Oct 8, 2009, 4:30 pm
…oh my. Two things, then. First, news continues to trickle in on the Simon Singh libel front. He mentioned at TAM London that the next noteworthy date is sometime later this month, at which po...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Oct 7, 2009, 6:30 pm
I’ve been badmintoning again, so here’s a quick thing I noticed which isn’t as interesting as I think it is. Here’s a snapshot of a Google search I was doing earlier: For the...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Oct 2, 2009, 4:46 pm
Eep. TAM London is happening in like nine hours. Still trying to figure out how to get there. I’m sure I’ll work something out. Too distracted to have stuff to say here. Just hoping that ...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Oct 1, 2009, 6:27 pm
Reminder: I’m hosting the next edition of the Humanist Symposium blog carnival. If you have anything which you’d like to be featured, email a link to cubiksrube, (at) hotmail {dot} co uk, by O...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Sep 30, 2009, 6:09 pm
It’s my badminton night, so you’re not going to get much. But it’s International Blasphemy Day, and I can’t let that go unnoted. So, for what it’s worth: - I deny the d...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Sep 29, 2009, 6:04 pm
If you want to know what I think of the Atheist’s Guide to Christmas, a book that’s just been released, which was put together by the lovely Ariane Sherine (organiser of the Atheist Bus Ca...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Sep 28, 2009, 2:10 pm
You keep saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. - Inigo Montoya This is a staple of pseudoscience. Not quoting The Princess Bride – everyone does that too much, reg...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Sep 27, 2009, 7:30 am
The 43rd Humanist Symposium is up now, over at the Prior Perceptions Blog. I’m going to be hosting the next one, on October 18th. If you post anything in your blog between now and then which yo...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Sep 26, 2009, 6:12 pm
I’m feeling healthier today, and writing more stuff, hoping to get a new Skeptictionary entry up tomorrow. For today, just one quick thought, out of nowhere, with no real context, but possibly s...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Sep 24, 2009, 5:01 pm
Guess who’s just bought his ticket to TAM FUCKING LONDON, bitches! (Hint: someone whose crappy annoying cold/flu symptoms had fucking better have cleared up properly by next weekend.) Yeah, I&...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Sep 23, 2009, 5:02 pm
This sodding cold/flu/thing still isn’t leaving me alone. So I’m too tired and sickly to rant properly about the latest tedious story of politically correct secular fanaticism / “jus...
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Cubiks R. posted an article on Cubik's Rube - Sep 22, 2009, 5:52 pm
In which I apparently disagree with everyone in the pro-gay camp. A friend of mine posted a link on Facebook earlier to an article titled My 4-Year-Old Homophobe. It’s worth reading if only for...
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