All American Atheist

I’m Not Afraid Of Dying.

2012-01-20T01:38:05Z

Stupid Questions For Athiest’s

2011-12-19T14:46:29Z

The Bible-Bot #1 (Comic Strip)

2011-12-15T00:03:37Z

Six Website Valuation Services Tested.

2011-12-12T23:32:47Z

Hey guys,
I was bored today so I took a few minutes to goof around and try and figure out what my Domain Name was worth. I only tested six services because there are what looks like hundreds of them out there. Besides, as you will see, the last one was my favorite, for soon to be obvious reasons. So here they are.

http://www.sitevaluecheck.com

This one made me smile, I was like Okay, thats cool. Then I got to the next one.

http://www.sitevaluecalculator.com

Six Bucks? Total Bummer. But ay least I can but a bunch of tacos in a pinch.

http://www.mywebsiteworth.com/

Well at least the number is going up……lol

http://www.webworth.info

OK now I’m smiling again…. It’s not as good as website # 1 but good enough for me.

http://www.rapidsitecheck.com

These websites are all over the place with their numbers.

http://bizinformation.org/

Ok just a side note on this one: The web programmer in charge must have been on some type of reeeally illegal Shit when he coded this. But hey I don’t care. I think I just found my new desktop wallpaper.

This just goes to show you that not all you read on the web can be trusted. But I would LOVE to trust this last one, hee hee hee.

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This is pretty damn cool.

2011-12-12T20:04:14Z

If you have been on Facebook for a while, you will love Social Memories.

This app scans your entire Facebook activity since June 2009 – your status updates, photo albums, events you’ve attended, places you checked-in, friends who you frequently interact with, etc. – and turns all this data all into an elegant printed book.

Every page of this book is made of beautiful infographics offering new insights into your Facebook activities like when are you most active on Facebook, where do most of your friends live, your most popular Facebook pictures, etc. The way this data is presented in the book makes it all the more interesting.

The Facebook book would cost you around $32 (with international shipping) but you don’t necessarily have to buy one to get all these interesting insights.

The Facebook App will create a Flash version of the book that you can view in the browser itself though the resolution is not good enough for printing. You can also save selected pages of the book as photos in your Facebook profile. Impressive! Thanks Ilya Vedrashko.

For even more Awesomeness see: Turn your Facebook Profile into a Virtual Museum

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Top 100 Ways To Promote A New Blog

2011-12-11T09:07:55Z

This is a guest post by David Turnbull.

Promoting a new blog can be quite daunting, but it doesn’t have to be. As you might expect, breaking down blog promotion into small, actionable tasks eliminates the mental road block you’ve probably experienced when trying to wrap you head around how to get people’s attention. You don’t have to do everything in this list, and some items will have a greater effect then others, but every tactic will at least drive some traffic, and any traffic is better than no traffic.

Content
1. Write a list of over 100+ resources or ideas.
2. Write the definitive guide to something. Spend time making this awesome.
3. Release a manifesto.
4. Release 2 manifestos.
5. Interview cool people. People like talking about cool people.
6. After your articles are indexed in search engines, break them up into smaller articles and submit them to ezinearticles.com (and other article directories).
7. Or just pay someone to submit the articles for you.
8. Write a list of all the cool blogs and people in your niche.
9. Check out the most popular content on high trafficked blogs. Create similar content but applied to your own niche.

Facebook

10. Start a page.
11. Make that page awesome.
12. Start a group.
13. Make that group awesome.
14. Create a Facebook app for your blog.

Fundamentals
15. Wait. After you’ve taken action it can take a short while for traffic to arrive.
16. Be patient. Some bloggers may seem like overnight successes, but if you look back in their archives, they’ve been creating content for a long time.
17. Motivate yourself.
18. Read The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing.
19. Have an interesting story and overall purpose.
20. Embrace the Law of Reciprocity. Everything you give will come back exponentially.
21. Make blogging easier.
22. Take action every day. Just get one important thing done every day and eventually you’ll start getting traffic. The more you do each day the faster your blog gets traction.
23. Find people with blogs at a similar level to yours and help each other out.
24. Turn off your computer, do some cool stuff, turn on your computer again and blog about it.
25. Understand the importance of context.
26. Be consistent. You don’t need to blog every day but try to stick to at least some sort of schedule.
27. Make it a numbers game. Decide upon a definite plan of action (eg. 20 blog comments per day, 1 guest post per week etc) and stick with that.

Online Video
28. Create videos and distribute them through tubemogul.com
29. Or for wider video distribution trafficgeyser.com may work for you (expensive though).
30. Respond to YouTube videos with your content.
31. Include your full blog address at the TOP of your video descriptions.
32. Take your time with devising video titles and tags.
33. Convert your video to multiple formats, with slight editing changes, and upload it to video sites multiple times, targeting different keywords. The content remains the same but you can test what videos and titles work the best.
34. Buy the accounts of popular YouTubers and then add your blog address to the descriptions of their videos.
35. Start the first live show in your niche (Ustream, Justin.tv and LiveStream are popular choices). Make sure you record the shows too so they can be distributed as a podcast later on.

Other Blogs
36. Be the first commenter on the posts of popular blogs. But still provide value.
37. If you can’t be the first then comment anyway. But try to be the first.
38. Stumble and Digg cool blog posts you find and let the blogger know via a comment. If you have something worthy on your blog, they’ll probably reciprocate.
39. Use google.com/blogsearch to find fresh blog posts and then leave intelligent comments.
40. Link to blogs of a similar size. They’ll notice and then good stuff may happen.
41. Write a guest post for a large blog. You may not always get published, but when you do the traffic spike will be significant.
42. Write a guest post for a small blog. You’re more likely to get published and build relationships with the next wave of A-List bloggers.
43. Write some more guest posts. Can’t hurt, that’s for sure.
44. Join a blog network.

Paid
45. Start a StumbleUpon Ads campaign.
46. Get reviewed.
47. Buy some ad space.
48. Send out a press release.

People
49. Attend relevant meetups.
50. Tell your friends and family about your blog. Have them tell everyone they know.

Podcasting

51. Start a podcast and submit it to the iTunes directory.
52. Convert audio files to video files (just use Windows Movie Maker or iMovie) and send them out via tubemogul.com
53. Submit it to some other podcast directories.

Search engine optimization
54. Write linkbait.
55. Have any video or audio content transcribed and posted to your blog.
56. Register your domain name for 10 years.
57. Take advantage of sites scraping your blog’s feed by interlinking posts. Simple way to get deep inbound links.
58. Use Thesis.

Social networks
59. Join every social network you can.
60. Or, just join a couple and be really active.
61. Become active in relevant ning.com communities.
62. Convert blog posts to PDF files and submit them to Scribd – include your blog url in the description and document itself.
63. Add your Scribd documents to relevant groups.
64. Submit your best posts to blog carnivals.
65. Join relevant forums, add your blog address to your signature and start posting intelligently.
66. Sign up at ping.fm and use twitterfeed.com to auto post your latest blog content to a bunch of social networks.
67. Create lists on Amazon.com
68. Write reviews on Amazon.com
69. Better yet, create video reviews for Amazon.com
70. Answer relevant questions on Yahoo Answers, leaving your website as the source.
71. Or on Mahalo Answers.
72. Or even through LinkedIn Answers.
73. Start your own Slinkset, and feed your RSS feed into it automatically.
74. Submit your site to alltop.com
75. Write an article aimed at Digg (okay, that article won’t help much).
76. Also, befriend one of the many Digg powerusers.
77. Create a new thread on a forum and write up a really great guide with no self promotion. Simple way to be seen as an authority figure and to elicit comments on your writing (don’t forget that signature link though!).
78. Submit your content to dofollow social bookmarking sites.
79. Or have Bookmarking Demon do it for you (certainly a bend in ethics though).

StumbleUpon
80. Become an active stumbler to understand what stumblers like.
81. Friend people who stumble your content (they may just want to stumble more in the future)..
82. Have other people initially submit content (or “Discover” it as it’s known).
83. Place a Stumble button in your post template.

Su.pr
84. Sign up at su.pr and use it for all your short url needs.
85. Post content to your Facebook and Twitter stream.
86. Install the WordPress plugin to automate the process.
87. Identify the times that result in the most clicks and schedule tweets for them.
88. Setup your blog as a promoted website.

Twitter
89. Include hash tags (#tagname) in your tweets.
90. Search for your niche and answer any questions people have.
91. Place a Retweet button in your post template.
92. Follow relevant, popular, and interesting people.
93. Send @replies to relevant, popular and interesting people.
94. Tweet links to your content at multiple times during the day.
95. Love a product from a company that’s on Twitter? Review it and they may just notice and tweet about the review. It’s happened to me.
96. Sponsor some tweets.
97. Find cool people in your niche who live nearby and organize a tweet up (a meet up where you invite anyone on Twitter).

WordPress
98. Install All In One SEO Pack.
99. Automatically ping lots of ping services.
100. Create a theme, include a link to your blog in the footer, and then release it for free.

David Turnbull is a Buddhist blogger, Apple fan boy, lousy musician, designer, book worm, simplicity freak and dedicated computer geek. You can visit his blog on davidturnbull.com.

Affiliate Blogging 101 (yourturntoblog.wordpress.com)
6 Ways to Establish Yourself as an Industry Thought Leader (hubspot.com)
5 Creative Ways to Recycle Content (hubspot.com)
Direct Sellers: Make the Most of Your Blog (personalbrandingblog.com)
Blogging 101: Something Wild & Crazy (mkmercurio.wordpress.com)
How to Turn Your Blog into a Profitable Print Magazine (famousbloggers.net)
The 3 Best Ways To Generate Blog Traffic That Converts (famousbloggers.net)

My Very First Live Radio Show!

2011-12-11T05:12:46Z

I Screwed up a bit but now I have the hang of it. I hope you guys can tune in next time.

I mainly talked about George Carlin, and Other things from my Blog.

Image via Wikipedia

Next time I will either talk on Comedy, or The Bible Uncovered.

Listen to internet radio with BostonAtheist on Blog Talk Radio

George Carlin sings. Really. (maureenholland.wordpress.com)
Another Reason Why George Carlin is My Hero (itsnobullshit.com)
George Carlin on creativity and meaning as an artist (tobiasbuckell.com)
Occupation Foole: Sign petition to name a block in NYC after George Carlin (dangerousminds.net)
Take a Left at George Carlin (commonwealmagazine.org)
Language Lovers, Check Out George Carlin (kellyaatkins.com)
Environmental Rant – George Carlin (cantankerousoldcoots.com)

Steven Wright: Genius or Nutjob?

2011-12-09T12:52:21Z

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I’m afraid of widths.
At one point he decided enough was enough.
Babies don’t need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach… it pisses me off! I’ll go over to a little baby and say ‘What are you doing here? You haven’t worked a day in your life!’
Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?
Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?
Don’t you hate when your hand falls asleep and you know it will be up all night.
Ever notice how irons have a setting for permanent press? I don’t get it.
Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time
For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier… I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.
George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge… you can’t hear him talk.
Hermits have no peer pressure.
How young can you die of old age?
I bought some batteries, but they weren’t included.
I bought some instant water one time but I didn’t know what to add to it.
I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.
I got a chain letter by fax. It’s very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.
I got this powdered water – now I don’t know what to add.
I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.
I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out.
I had to stop driving my car for a while… the tires got dizzy.
I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I’m home now. But leave a message and I’ll call when I’m out.
I have an existential map. It has ‘You are here’ written all over it.
I have the world’s largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world… perhaps you’ve seen it.
I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I’m gone.
I installed a skylight in my apartment… the people who live above me are furious!
I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
I invented the cordless extension cord.
I like to reminisce with people I don’t know.
I live on a one-way street that’s also a dead end. I’m not sure how I got there.
I met this wonderful girl at Macy’s. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator.
I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.
I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he’s gone.
I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.
I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing ‘Happy Birthday.’
I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I’m the only one moving.
I saw a bank that said “24 Hour Banking,” but I don’t have that much time.
I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.
I think God’s going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.
I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.
I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn’t park anywhere near the place.
I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.
I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.
I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn’t have to go so fast.
I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, ‘Hey, the sign says you’re open 24 hours.’ He said, ‘Yes, but not in a row.’
I went to a general store but they wouldn’t let me buy anything specific.
I went to a general store. They wouldn’t let me buy anything specifically.
I went to a restaurant that serves “breakfast at any time”. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.
I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, “What for?” I said, “I’m going to buy some sugar.”
I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.
I wrote a few children’s books… not on purpose.
I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.
I’m writing an unauthorized autobiography.
If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
If God dropped acid, would he see people?
If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.
If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?
If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?
If you can’t hear me, it’s because I’m in parentheses.
If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?
If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?
If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?
If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?
In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.
Is it weird in here, or is it just me.
It doesn’t matter what temperature the room is, it’s always room temperature.
It’s a small world, but I wouldn’t want to have to paint it.
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.
My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.
My neighbor has a circular driveway… he can’t get out.
My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It’s in the apartment somewhere.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
On the other hand, you have different fingers.
Right now I’m having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.
So, do you live around here often?
Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn’t happen.
The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.
The other day I… uh, no, that wasn’t me.
There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.
There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
What a nice night for an evening.
What’s another word for Thesaurus?
When I die, I’m leaving my body to science fiction.
When I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy, Do you have any toy train schedules?
When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child… eventually.
When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, “Well, what do you need?
When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, “Did you sleep good?” I said “No, I made a few mistakes.
Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.
Why don’t they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff?
You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?

Is this guy a fucking moron or what? (allamericanatheist.com)
The Thin Line Between Genius and Insanity: Really, Guys. It is Super Thin. (badlandsbadley.wordpress.com)
Nutjob Gore Says Denying Man-made Global Warming Is Racist! (mikesright.wordpress.com)
Presenting Comedian Steven Wright at Uptown Theatre Napa on 10/16 (prweb.com)

Christmas: Less Christian Than You Think

2011-12-08T17:25:48Z

Christmas appears to be a celebration relating directly to the birth of the Christian savior Jesus Christ. However this isn’t actually the case, sure the ties are strong with Christianity, but there is plenty in the way of popular modern traditions across the globe that pre-date any secular origins.

Firstly there is very little evidence to suggest that Jesus was actually born on the 25th December. The date for celebrating Christmas was actually adopted by the Christian Church in the 4th century. And there is no hard evidence regarding the date of the birth, though it is thought far more likely to have been summer or early fall. This is in part due to the activities of the shepherds that suggest a time of year as described in Luke 2:8, ‘abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flocks by night’.

Beside this there is evidence customs that we enjoy around Christmas developed separately from the birth of Jesus and in fact were later appropriated by Christianity. Two such elements are the Yule log and gift giving. The Yule log comes from Yule, a pagan celebration of Germanic origin that was celebrated from late December to early January and is closely tied to The Wild Hunt, an ancient myth involving spectral huntsman powering manically across the sky. Whereas gift giving is a remnant from Saturnalia, a roman celebration honoring the Titan Saturn. This festival was practiced as early as 217BC.

Saturnalia is just one winter festival that it is believed pre-dated Christmas. Many cultures saved their biggest celebration of the year for winter. Partly due to the tendency for there to be less agricultural work to be done and that there was an excitement about days getting longer, weather improving and spring arriving.

One specific winter festival that is speculated to have been prevalent before Christmas is Dies Natalis Solis Inviciti. It was even considered in some literary works that it was ‘providence’ that Christ was born on this same day as the celebration. Dies Natalis Solis Inviciti translates as “birth of the unconquered sun”. The festival it is thought was established by Aurelian the Roman Emperor. Mithros the sun god has ties to the pagan celebrations of Yule in Europe too. Essentially it was a celebration of the rebirth of summer, a reawakening of sorts. The date on which these celebrations took place was 25th December.

Another interesting point is that Christmas has altered through the ages. The prevailing ethos has changed from the raucous carnival of the Middle Ages to the family friendly version we have now. And it is also worth remembering that on more than one occasion Christmas has been banned by the harder line Christian faiths believing it to be irreverent and on occasion, even because it was just too pagan… all of which is certainly something to consider while tucking into your Turkey!

David James writes on Christmas and other holidays for Find Me A Gift, specialists in quirky and funny gifts for any occasion.

When did they invent christmas (wiki.answers.com)
Happy Holidays is Not an Attack on Christmas (waymonddh.wordpress.com)
The Bridge: The Roots of Xmas & Jesus – Pt. 1 (bmia.wordpress.com)

Is this guy a fucking moron or what?

2011-12-07T09:12:57Z

I so want to hit him in the face with a heavy chair. People like him are just wasting our oxygen. I mean fuck. Come on, the best he could come up with is “The chicken or the egg?” I wan’t to tell him to hurry up and graduate from 4th Grade and get on with life. By the way. I want to burn his stupid hat……. UGH!

Sorry this guy took less than a minute and a half to drive me loopy!

I guess you will have to decide yourself if this Nutjob is a complete moron or not.

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