You just have to change one letter.
Free speech is a important part of our society, but that doesn’t mean you should run around writing or speaking every inane thought you have. It seems though that some people are going to say stupid things whether they’ve “thought” long and hard about it or not. Case in point:
No, this isn’t one of those fake sign generators as much as I wish it was. News story with video. (via Friendly Atheist) Of course the first thing I thought of was this Demotivator:
Quakes
So, living in the Northern Kentucky area we don’t get to many earthquakes and they’re usually just something you mention along with talking about the weather. Well, we got to feel a decent sized one this morning, actually enough to wake me and my wife up. A little later this morning I felt another, but my son didn’t. So, I begin to think I imagined it and thus seek to find out if I did or not. Which lead me to a site where I not only confirmed my experience, but also had opportunity to share it.
Some interesting things I looked at today.
Instead of trying to write a tidbit about each of these links I figured I’d just send you straight there and let you take a gander yourself.
Space Is Full of Crap
Even Gigantic Celestial Bodies Prefer Firefox to IE
Europe Says Net Banning Is a Violation of “Civil Liberties and Human Rights”
FCC Prepping Nationwide Text Message Alert System
How does one become evil?
Often there are situations which we will wonder if we were how we would behave and often being removed from the actual situation we believe that we would behave in the best possible sense. We want to think that there are good people and evil people. We hope that we will always be that good person. We know that we are only hypothesizing about how we would behave and we’ll actually not know unless we are actually in the situation, but also recognize that we’d rather not be tested.
Here is a short interesting article on Phillip Zimbardo and his research into understanding how good people turn evil.
Starbucks Dress Code “Under Review”?
The partner side of the mystarbucksidea.com site has recently marked 10 different suggestions on dress code as **UNDER REVIEW**. The suggestions vary, from suggesting uniforms to relaxing the current dress code. Several seek changes on Starbucks’ policies on tattoos, facial piercings, and different hair colors by appealing to diversity. It remains to be seen if this means there might actually be any change or if this is their way of trying to silence the topic.
*Edit: If you’re looking for the current policy look here.
