Revising the 10 commandments

Here's a very interesting proposal I found. If we atheist were to have 10 commandments just as Catholics do, the list may be something like this:

1. Atheism
Try to Treat others as you would want to have them treat you.
1. Catholic
I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have strange gods before me.

2. Atheism
Be Truthful and honest even if inconvenient or uncomfortable.
2. Catholic
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.

3. Atheism
Treat the environment and all life with reverence ensuring it's improvement by virtue of preventing loss, injury or any other harmful change.
3. Catholic
Remember thou keep the Sabbath Day.

4. Atheism
Determine what is moral in your own mind, not what others dictate morality should be.
4. Catholic
Honor thy Father and thy Mother.

5. Atheism
Never feel absolutely certain of anything and question everything, be they bibles, history or science books.
5. Catholic
Thou shalt not kill.

6. Atheism
Never discourage expression of free thought, regardless of the subject matter or personal opinion.
6. Catholic
Thou shalt not commit adultery.

7. Atheism
Aggressively prohibit oppressive authority in defense that all people are born free and equal in dignity and rights without distinction of any kind.
7. Catholic
Thou shalt not steal.

8. Atheism
Do not fear to be in the minority, for the majority is not always one that rules without prejudice.
8. Catholic
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

9. Atheism
Show concern for the welfare of others, help those that are less fortunate than yourself.
9. Catholic
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife.

10. Atheism
Enjoy yourself and others, always living your life to the fullest.
10. Catholic
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods.

For a more eloquent version, here's the master, George Carlin:

So funny I had to share it!

Language things

I'm a person who thinks that the English language is kind of messed up. I mean, there are words that you can write using exactly the same syntax, and they mean different things. There are also words that sound similar, but have different meanings, and there are also words that sound exactly the same but not only they have different meanings, but they also don't have even one letter in common.

That's all comparing it to the Spanish language, where you have so many words...you have four and five different words to say something....well that's also messed up...I guess.

Anyway, today I received an email, with a nine letter word in English, which you can start removing words one by one from, and every time you remove a letter, the remaining letters make a valid word in English. The word is:

Startling
remove the L

Starting
remove the T

Staring
remove the A

String
remove the R

Sting
remove the T

Sing
remove the G

Sin
remove the S

In
remove the N

I


That's kind of cool...is it not?

-R

Now it's easier to search for videos @ Google and YouTube

In a previous post I talked about my almost inexistent tv watching habits. Somethings have changed since then. First, a friend of mine upgraded her TIVO box and gave us (my and my wife) her old one.

I've always been a fan of TV on demand. I think that you should watch what you want, and not what TV producers want you to. Now with TIVO, I can specify the kind of programs I like, and when I get home (or when I have time to sit in front of the TV), I can review the recordings that were made while I was out. It's really cool.

Anyway, that's one thing that has changed. The other one, just came into effect today. You know that Google acquired Youtube a while back. Since then, there has not been much of a change. Google video and Youtube pretty much remained the same. Well, starting today, you can type your search parameters in Google Video, and you'll get results of both Google Video and YouTube. This is really useful. Imagine...I have a friend who is obsessed with watching girls fight. Now it's easier for him too!

Give it a shot!


More on this story: Google's Official Blog

-R

Truly amazing art!

This guy is an amazing artist. Check it out.


Open hands:


Closed hands:



Click HERE for more

-R

Songs in english, with phrases in spanish

This is really cool. Is somewhat old, but a friend dropped by my house yesterday, and we started talking about it. I knew that I had it somewhere in my hard drive, so I looked it up and decided to post it here.

This is a flash movie which contains a few songs in English, but some parts sound as if they were spoken in Spanish. It's really funny how we missed them.

Enjoy.

My all time favorite band in the whole world: Dream Theater

I've been a huge fan of Dream Theater since 1992, when a friend of mine from college showed me a few of their songs. Since then I've been obsessed with the band, buying all their albums, VHS's, DVD's, downloading bootlegs, learning about their history...the whole shebang.

I once flew to Orlando just to see them live together with Fates Warning (my second favorite band), and Queensryche.

Of course, I went to see them when they came to San Juan last year...an excellent show. I recently found in You Tube, videos of Dream Theater in Puerto Rico, and I thought that they might be of interest to some of you, so here they are.

Rock on!

-R