Reading: The Footprints of God
Music: Punk-o-Rama #9
TV/Movie: Dirty Pair (original)
Link o' the Day: How Not To Run a Webcomic

Shortish entry today as it’s been a killer of a busy day following a somewhat lazy weekend. The weekend got us relaxed, maybe too relaxed. I did get some work done, although most of it was waiting around for materials to come in.

I’m currently reading Greg Iles’s book, THE FOOTPRINTS OF GOD. It’s not a bad book. It makes a good following to the Dan Brown sort of books, and the pacing is a bit more measured. One thing that bothers me a lot about techno-thrillers (and this is why I am less enamoured of Michael Crichton) is the theme that science is bad and that there were things mankind was not meant to know.

BULLSHIT.

We shold know as much as possible about as many things as possible. From how black holes are formed to how cancer cells develop. Stem cell research? I’m all for it. the one thing about organized religion that drives me right up the wall is when they try to stifle learning because they think that it’s like playing God. I wonder if they read the Book of Job. Who are they to say what we should and shouldn’t know? God? I think not.

The Catholic and Protestant churches encouraged ages of ignorance in Europe much as how segments of Islam strive to keep aspects of the Middle East equally ignorant. (One mullah claimed that vacinations led to sterility... yeesh!) Anyway... it’s the same thing with some of these technothrillers. They paint scenes in which technology runs amok. Usually it’s because one part of the society has more control or knowledge of said technology than the other--that’s where the problems come in.

Level the playing field. Have a little faith.

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Today’s link is kind of amusing for anyone who has ever considered starting their own webcomic. It’s Keenspace’s How Not To Run a Webcomic. Beware of awful art.

Cheers!