It’s amazing how they come up with these stats.

Source: L.A. Times, Trendrr

This video has been around for more than a year but I thought I’d respond to it.

The idea is to deny the holy spirit and put yourself out of the running for salvation by Christian bible bashers.

Here’s my response:

The full text of my little rant can be read below:

Hi 3nglish fans,
My name is Coen and I manage the 3nglish.co.uk website and channel English on IRCnet.

This is a response to quite an old video on YouTube, dated the 7th of December 2006. And even though it’s quite an old video I would like to say a few words about it.

In this video, titled the Blasphemy Challenge, a group of atheists called the Rational Response Squad have set forth a challenge to anyone in possession of a webcam.

The challenge goes like this: In the Bible (Mark 3:29) Jesus says to his followers “but whosoever shall blaspheme against the Holy Spirit hath never forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”. This basically means if you deny this holy spirit you will go to hell, which is supposedly a real place. You will also be eternally damned from that point forward. The idea is to post a video stating this.
This is bound to piss off a lot of so called bible-bashers who literally believe the words written in the bible are truly the word of their ‘god’. That is mostly because people denying the holy spirit are now beyond supposed salvation.

So here we go:

I deny the holy spirit, the existence of the holy spirit and the power of the holy spirit.

Why do I do this you ask? Well, many deluded people still believe in the literature authored by followers of some dead misquoted prophet called Jesus which spawned one of the most destructive beliefs ever: Christianity. I wish to distance myself from their inhumanity and belief at face value of an ancient text.

So there you have it. I have denied the holy spirit and am now going to hell which on earth is called England. Thank you, and see you in hell.

I think that’ll do. Let’s see if anyone responds.

This one’s quite good.

NSFW for the language. I’d yell some NSFW stuff too in his position.

We already know that good old light bulbs are very inefficient — they turn much of the supplied energy into heat instead of light — and that LED lighting is the way of the future. Well, maybe not just yet. Luxim is working on a plasma light that is even more efficient than LED, about twice as efficient actually. The “light bulb” is only slightly bigger than a LED, and it doesn’t need all the electronics that LEDs require.

Check out the enlightening video on ZDnet.

[edit: I found the video. Posted below. -- bouzo ]

Road rage has been around for a lot longer than you think.

Here’s a short lesson on Cockney Rhyming Slang by Smivadee. Smiv’s little bio on Youtube states:

Smivadee is an average 22 year old living in Essex in the United Kingdom. He manages to turn his real life events into parodies which he uploads to this channel.

Watch and learn, people.

Here’s what’ll undoubtedly happen during the London Olympics.

March 19th marked the anniversary of one of the West’s most costly mistakes ever: trying to steal oil from a country that didn’t want to give it under the pretense of ’spreading democracy’.

All the while the politicians responsible have been trying to convince us that the war has been ‘just’, first by telling us it was dangerous to leave a despot like Saddam Hussein in power in Iraq because of weapons of mass destruction (which didn’t exist) and then to stop terrorism (which actually spread because of our incompetence and zeal).

Since that time The Daily Show has been taking the piss out of the unreal situation created by President Bush, Cheney and his cronies Blair and Brown. Here’s their take on 5 years of costly stupidity by inept and corrupt politicians.

After walking our lovely blog through a few validation sequences it came to my attention that most widget scripters don’t know their arse from their elbows when it comes to valid XHTML. I came up with 182 errors.

Below you will find a load of nerd-speak pertaining to what I’ve been doing to our little blog:

• Edited the custom smiley plugin to make it include the alt tags. In a few weeks the new smileys will have slowly edged out the old ones and they will be valid XHTML.
• Removed the MaxBlogPress Unblockable Popup which showed you all our Zombie Vidar warning. It was so full of errors and bad coding it made me bust a nut.
• Edited the video plugin to get liveleak param tags to close (bad bad liveleak coders to blame). Unfortunately I haven’t managed to re-code the embedding of The Onion’s code.. apparently they’ve never heard of flash validation.
• Changed a load of stuff in the VoteItUp Karma widget. There might be a new version out there, but imo the validation wasn’t good this time around, so why trust the wankstains to do it right the 2nd time.
• Edited the template I built the interface on and made it my own. The designer didn’t know his HTML arse from his HTML elbow either.

So that’s it. I present you with a cleaner, more valid page now (at least, code wise; all you non-nerds won’t know what the problem is or that there ever was one). I know I could’ve gotten around to it earlier, but seeing as it was such a mountain of work I kept postponing it.

The only drawback: No more Zombie Vidar to warn you about the content. Sorry Vidar. People will have to find out who you are the hard way now.