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Why Is Evolution So Unpopular?

My fourth video on atheist-related matters. This video isn’t so much about atheism as it is about evolution. I talk about the misconceptions of evolutions and why so many people in America don’t believe in it.
YouTube link
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Here’s the transcript:

What Science Isn't

My third video on atheism. In this video, I talk about nonfalsifiable beliefs, problems arguing for creationism based on complexity, and the political (as opposed to scientific) motivations of the intelligent design movement.
I really need to figure out how to adjust the settings when I export to MPEG format, these videos keep getting stretched out.
YouTube […]

An Atheist Response, Re: The Richard Dawkins Delusion

I’ve responded to another post on YouTube. Here’s the YouTube link
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Here’s a transcript:

An Atheist Response

This is the first video I’ve ever created. I taught myself enough Adobe Premiere this morning to put it together. All the shots are from an old $20 web cam I got several years ago.The video is also available on YouTube.
I created this video because I saw so many atheists’ posts which seemed to be […]

DiscEx: Discover, Explore – Virtual tour web software

UPDATE 9/14/2011: UT has removed this code from their website. The software was basically a poor-man’s Google Streetview, with individual photos taken around the sculpture, rather than a panoramic in a QTVR-style viewer. Unfortunately, I don’t have the code or the images anymore. No big loss, since it was implemented as a Java Applet when […]

On leadership.

Perhaps you’ve just started a small business. Or maybe you work for an established and reputable corporation. How can you promote your company? How can you convey that you provide services and/or goods that outshine all of your competitors?
Lying is the obvious answer, but let’s pretend you’re ethical.

Al's Alerts

Al’s Alerts, a web application (http://alsalerts.com).
Al’s Alerts is a service that will email you posts from craigslist whenever a post appears with the keywords you provide. This frees you from having to check craigslist every day if you are on the lookout for something specific. This is an improvement on craigslist’s subscriptions, which will simply […]

Road Trip, April & May of 2006 (DC

Pictures from my road trip [facebook.com]
I took the AmTrak train to Chicago, flew to San Francisco, took a bus to Portland, then flew home. About a week before, I flew to DC for a job interview, and also stayed with my grandfather in Pennsylvania.

Comics (Big Science and Proverbs)

I was hired on the staff of the Daily Texan during college. I drew Big Science and Proverbs (for which, unlikely enough, I won an award for from Columbia University). In my opinion, they’re terrible. I’ve posted some of the less awful ones, with commentary I made several months back.
Big Science [download all comics]
Proverbs [download […]

Rethinking our false security

Originally ran in the Daily Texan [dailytexanonline.com] on 8/30/04.
Rethinking our false security
Cameras poor solution to defend high-profile areas
By Al Sweigart
Clues for finding the culprits behind the recent MLK vandalism are limited to grainy footage from the two cameras by the statue. The tapes are only able to confirm that two bipedal figures indeed defaced […]

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