Following my post several weeks ago arguing for atheism and against gods and religion of all kinds, much debate has ensued. At some stage, I will try to summarise the main points in a new post. However, you might like to check out the intense discussion in the comments of the original piece: Why atheists […]
Jarred Cinman
Jarred Cinman is software director at Cambrient, South Africa's leading developer of web applications. He co-founded Johannesburg's first professional web development company and was one of the founders of VWV Interactive, for many years the premier creative web business in the country, winning numerous Loeries and various international awards. In 2001, Jarred co-founded Cambrient, which has, in its six-year history, built the leading local content management system and serviced an impressive list of corporate customers. Cambrient Contentsuite is also the engine behind Moneyweb.
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South Africa: The First World, with slavery!
Where else but in South Africa can one have all the benefits of First World living, with the equivalent of slave labour to clean up after us? If this sounds like either an oversimplification or merely a provocation, think again. Having recently travelled down to Port Elizabeth — perhaps the most awful city in the […]
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The top five ‘fu** you’ songs of all time
A bad day demands an anthem. You’re waiting patiently at a red light for the turning arrow to start flashing so you can start your journey home, and five selfish bastards across the intersection keep turning after their arrow has long ago faded to nought. Or some client has driven you to the brink of […]
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Isn’t life wonderful?
Here’s a disruptive thought: life is a spectacular thing, all the time. Life is what we are given. Or, to put it differently, it’s what we have. It’s the brute, unchangeable fact that connects us all. It’s what we all absolutely have in common, the singular reality on which there is, and can be, no […]
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Isn’t life wonderful?
Here’s a disruptive thought: life is a spectacular thing, all the time. Life is what we are given. Or, to put it differently, it’s what we have. It’s the brute, unchangeable fact that connects us all. It’s what we all absolutely have in common, the singular reality on which there is, and can be, no […]
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Sex model pulls in the crowds on Facebook
Who wouldn’t want to be friends with a hot, naked, friendly blonde who had recently lost her digital camera containing some very explicit photos? Thanks to Facebook’s relaxed (that is, non-existent) identity-verification process, anyone could. And did. She received, apparently, “tens of thousands” of offers to return her lost property. Property whose finding was aided […]
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Is it possible that crime is good?
We’ve all heard, ad nauseum, the analysis of how terrible crime is, and how it’s wrecking South Africa, chasing away tourists and creating a general lawlessness in our society. But what benefit does crime bring to the South African economy? For a few years now, I’ve been tossing out this question as soon as I […]
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How to write a hit blog post (based on real Amatomu data)
Analysing Amatomu data from the past 2 months reveals some interesting — and not so interesting — trends in what makes a blog post a hit. Ok, here goes. Thanks to Vincent Maher’s (of Amatomu) kindly SQL queries, I have the most-used links on Amatomu over the past few months in front of me. While […]
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Least religious countries also the healthiest, says survey
Phil Zuckerman has released a chapter in the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Atheism that lists the least religious countries in the world, and concludes that “high levels of organic atheism are strongly correlated with high levels of societal health, such as low homicide rates, low poverty rates, low infant mortality rates, and low illiteracy rates, […]
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Why atheists are just plain right
“Religion comes from the period of human history where nobody, not even the mighty Democritus, who concluded that all matter was made from atoms, had the smallest idea what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our own inescapable demand for […]
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Facebook is the CIA’s Wet Dream
Memo from the Acting Director, Central Intelligence Agency, John E. McLaughlin, Langley, Virginia to President George W Bush Circa 2004 TO: THE GREAT LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD People, on the one hand, are paranoid about privacy. They jump up and down every time there’s any kind of new legislation to monitor or track them. […]
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Facebook is the CIA’s Wet Dream
Memo from the Acting Director, Central Intelligence Agency, John E. McLaughlin, Langley, Virginia to President George W Bush Circa 2004 TO: THE GREAT LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD People, on the one hand, are paranoid about privacy. They jump up and down every time there’s any kind of new legislation to monitor or track them. […]