I’ve had a number of religious debates with friends online lately. This video pretty well sums up a lot of my thoughts from those debates. Here is a transcript of the video.
This is a panel discussion from the 2009 Christian Book Expo. The panelist are William Lane Craig, Christopher Hitchens, Douglas Wilson, Lee Strobel, and Jim Denison. Some good discussion. Compiled for you here on my blog simply to save you the effort of finding all 12 videos on YouTube. Enjoy.
I recently found the files from my Senior Design Project at the University of Missouri – Rolla. Unfortunately, this was in 2005, before the era of cheap high-definition cameras. I really wish I had a better video of all of this! I will be posting a fair amount about it in the next few days. We attempted to create an autonomous surveillance aircraft. Here are a couple of videos of the flight.
Here’s the video we put together for our final presentation. The first few minutes are spent testing out all of the electronics before flight.
Here is the raw video from the onboard camera.
I hope to post a lot more about this project soon.
This was a pain to find the correct links on YouTube when I watched it, so I figured I would put all of the videos together in a blog post so that you could more easily access them. This is a debate between the Archbishop of Abuja, John Onaiyekan; British MP, Ann Widdecombe; Christopher Hitchens; and Stephen Fry.
YouTube and Apple really need to fix the YouTube app on the iPad. I have been trying to watch a music video on YouTube that is available in 360p, 480p, 720p, and 1080p. When I attempt to watch the video over my home wireless connection the application insist on choosing the 1080p stream, which is too large for my 3Mbps internet connection to smoothly stream. While I am waiting on the video to cache, the iPad will usually go to sleep since I can’t do anything else on the iPad while the video caches. So, I figured I would try the 3G connection since I know that via the 3G connection the iPad will use a lower quality video stream. Well, the video did load completely in about 10 seconds via 3G, but the video quality was so bad that it wasn’t worth watching. All of this could be solved by having a tiny little option that allows me to choose what video quality I want to use over WiFi. My home internet connection typically streams 720p YouTube videos with few issues.
Now for the second issue. AT&T has apparently announced that they are doing away with their unlimited data plan for both iPhone and iPad (http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9G30GCG0.htm). They are replacing it with a 200MB/month for $15/month plan and a 2GB/month for $25/month plan. Apparently current iPhone subscribers can keep their unlimited plan at the current rate, but new users have to choose the lesser plans. Also, for iPad 3G users, if you currently have the $30/month unlimited data plan and CONTINUOUSLY pay for it every month from now on, you get to keep the unlimited plan. However, if you ever don’t renew, you only options become the 200MB/month and 2GB/month plans. In my opinion AT&T intentionally mislead thousands of people who bought iPad 3Gs by initially promoting the “unlimited $30/month, activate and deactivate as needed” plan a few months ago. This seemed like a great deal to users who only traveled every now and then and wanted to have the option of unlimited 3G only when on the road. AT&T, this is a dick move and you know it. I truly hope that there is a class-action lawsuit started over this bait-and-switch advertising. I do not believe for a second that AT&T didn’t plan this out as “let’s entice users to buy the 3G model by advertising a great data plan for iPad but then after enough are sold, we’ll do away with that plan and royally fuck them over on their purchase.”
Anyways, I trust that Apple and YouTube can at least easily fix my first complaint. Too AT&T though, FUCK YOU!
I was compiling an email for a good friend and decided that the list was worthy of a blog post so that all of you could benefit from these YouTube channels.
First, I want to introduce you to cdk007. This YouTuber has created some of the best animations I have seen showing evolutionary ideas and refuting arguments against them.
This video from cdk007 refutes the often-used “blind watchmaker” argument. I have played around with and modified the MATLAB code cdk007 created and it has been the source of entertainment for hours on end. I am in the process of porting the code to C++. I still need to get permission to release the resulting code though.
Now we have another great video from cdk007 refuting, through analogy, the claim that “micro-evolution exists but that can’t possibly be proof of macro-evolution.”
As a final example of cdk007‘s work I give you one of his arguments against “irreducible Complexity.”