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PyBat: A Python Module to Replace Batch File Usage (or, "Batch Files Aren't Dead, They Just Deserve to Die")

Download PyBat 0.1.2
More details at: http://pybat.sourceforge.net
UPDATE: Hi, Reddit! I just wanted to clear this up: PyBat is about solving a somewhat specific problem: allowing Python scripts and batch files to communicate environment variable changes. This is in the case where you have a ton of legacy batch files that you cannot (for whatever reason) […]

Free Will Doesn't Matter

A video on the subject of free will, and why it isn’t nearly as important as we think it is.
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Transcript is below the fold:

Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python

I’m writing a book geared towards teaching Python programming to kids. Here is the book project’s main page. I’ll make new posts as significant parts of the book are completed.
Here are some quick links:

Cover
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 – Introduction
Chapter 2 – “Hello World!” – Your First Program
Chapter 3 – Guess the Number

Guess the […]

Stealth Windows updates without user permission or notification.

(This is a somewhat old story.) I left a comment on Bruce Schneier’s cryptogram blog on his article about how Microsoft Windows Update was found to be updating even in the event where the user had turned off automatic updates. The article is located here.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes reported the secret updates on ZDNet. Nate Clinton, PM […]

See, God

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Transcript follows:

Navy Showers

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A navy shower is a method of showering that reduces the amount of water you use.
1) Get wet.
2) Turn off the water.
3) While the water is off, lather up with soap.
4) Rinse off.
You get just as clean, and you help the environment and save money on your utility bills.

What One Atheist Believes

I was having an argument with someone on the Internet, and they asked me, as an atheist, what exactly do I believe in? (It is a common misconception that atheists have no beliefs, or no moral beliefs, at all.)
So I made this video.
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Transcript is below:

This Old Earth (part 1 of 3)

My sixth video on atheism. This one took about a month of my spare time due to the large amount of research and web searching I did for it. I respond to VenomFangX’s video “The Age of the Earth” in which he uses some bogus arguments to prove that the age of the planet is […]

Fair and Balanced

My fifth video on atheism. I respond to the CNN segment that aired January 30th, 2007 which was almost entirely a child-minded atheist bash.
YouTube link
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Transcript follows:

Dooltaz Correspondence

UPDATED (3/19/07) – Dooltaz responded to me, and I responded back. It’s at the bottom of the other post.
I received a YouTube message from someone named dooltaz who wanted to respond to my videos on atheism. I have his message and my reply printed below. (I’ll continue to update our correspondence as it develops.)

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