by podblack on March 25, 2010
Lovely fellow, we had a great chat after everything was over about our common career-choices as English as a Second Language teachers.
Because embedding is disabled, click on it to head to the YouTube video and give him some nice ratings!
by podblack on March 21, 2010
I’d like to add – I lost ALL of my Saturday night photos and videos from the GAC. :/ I had them on a little flash drive, which probably got dropped in the convention centre. You’d know it if you found it – it has a copy of my speech on it! If [...]
by podblack on March 18, 2010
An article on the Global Atheist Convention is now winging its way to feature on the Curiouser and Curiouser column on the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Website!
Big thanks to Mike Rotkowitz for this shot! Right, back to work – Token Skeptic episode out tonight (despite my awful-sounding voice, horrid cold) called ‘On Women and Paranormal [...]
by podblack on March 17, 2010
Yes, that’s me standing next to him – and yes, I knew it was misquoted. Good to have visual evidence. Full post at Young Australian Skeptics:
Reporting on the 2010 Global Atheist Convention, Barney Zwartz & Jacqueline Maley, in their respective articles “Dawkins delivers the sermon they came to hear” (The Age, 15/3/10) and “Dawkins derides [...]
by podblack on March 17, 2010
I started writing this in response to a comment on one of the posts, and then realised that perhaps I should turn it into a fully-fledged blog entry. I’d like to point out that I don’t intend to keep writing about the convention for much longer, but this is an aspect that does interest me [...]
by podblack on March 15, 2010
Report in the Australian Newspaper: (I’ve been quoted!)
THEY came from everywhere, the true unbelievers: from Perth, Sydney, Brisbane, the Sunshine Coast, New Zealand and beyond. There was a honeymooning couple from North Carolina who had met on an atheist internet site; and two friends from rural NSW, both extroverted women who had been raised Catholics [...]