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Procrastination, oh sweet procrastination, thou shalst be my downfall.
Obviously revision time has always been the best time to indulge in the pleasures of procrastination. I’m sure the revisionistas will disagree but ’tis most important that one wastes significant portions of one’s day on the internets rather than squeezing obsolete knowledge on the mental hard drive. ’tis in this spirit that I bring you the first installment of this multipart-series – a best of procrastination, if you will.
Disclaimer: Procrastination should not be attempted by people who think it may interfere with them passing their exams.
Originally this was going to be a list of all the wonderful things you can find on the Internets with which to kill time and procrastinate like there’s no tomorrow, but the list was getting longer and longer and so I decided to have several installments, each for the categories under which I listed the links. Today you shall meet
Webcomics
We all know and love comics. Thanks to the web not only can we rss our favourite comics but we can stumble upon comics that are, in some cases, only published on the web, which is why we shall refer to them as webcomics.
Sinfest is my favourite webcomic. As much for the stories as for the drawing. I mean, how many comics feature god, the devil as well as talking cats and dogs? Obviously this comic and the next aren’t exactly politically correct. If you go to the archives and start with the very first episode you’ve got almost 3000 episodes to read through.
Jesus and Mo is most certainly blasphemous, politically incorrect and probably extremely evil. Don’t look at it if you’re easily offended, heck if you’re easily offended you should turn your computer off – don’t you know how dangerous the Internet is? Anyway, back to the comic. It isn’t drawn that well, but the concept is rather interesting; Jesus and Mohammed are roommates and they discuss various things, many of which are of a religious nature.
Diesel Sweeties is kinda weird and includes a girl with a robot boyfriend. The look of the comic reminds one of the computer games of the distant past when computer screens had a much lower resolution. Nevertheless it’s got its amusing moments. Obviously you shouldn’t read that kind of comic if robot sex offends you.
Cyanide and Happiness is alternating between offensive and just plain gross with the occasional silly moment thrown in for good measure.
Least I Could Do is hard to describe. Basically the main character Rayne is the most egocentric person ever and he does some outrageously silly things. Like using ninja stars to send invitations to a party.
Boy on a Stick and Slither and Count Your Sheep is what I’d call really cute stuff. And we all know that every once in a while what one needs is cute stuff.
xkcd describes itself as a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. I really like their disclaimer which reads:
Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).
If the classics are more what you’re after check out Comics.com which labels itself the home of comics on the web.
This should be enough to keep you busy for a while. The next installment will follow whenever it’s ready. In the meantime I have to cover a fair share of maths for the group project which started yesterday. I’ll tell you what it’s about once I figure it out.
I find it slightly amusing how atheism is treated a some kind of new phenomenon and how you can find a wealth of discussions on the net using the same old arguments over and over again (okay, let’s face it, when I said discussions I meant flame wars).
So I’ll include a link to a much older document (1716) whose main premise is significantly more daring than much of what can be found nowadays. The Treatise of the Three Imposters argues that Moses, Muhammad and Christ were all religious frauds. Not to mention the fact that it begins on such a light note
However important it may be for all men to know the Truth, very few, nevertheless, are acquainted with it, because the majority are incapable of searching it themselves, or perhaps, do not wish the trouble. Thus we must not be astonished if the world is filled with vain and ridiculous opinions, and nothing is more capable of making them current than ignorance, which is the sole source of the false ideas that exist regarding the Divinity, the soul, and the spirit, and all the errors depending thereon.
The custom of being satisfied with born prejudice has prevailed, and by following this custom, mankind agrees in all things with persons interested in supporting stubbornly the opinions thus received, and who would speak otherwise did they not fear to destroy themselves.
And that was almost 300 years ago. We’ve come such a long way since, haven’t we.
it is more easy to remain in ignorance than to abolish a belief established for many centuries and introduce something more probable.
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