Here and there

Eric Olthwaite at Apathy Jack blogs on what ideologies tend to be lethal and concludes “Religion and Socialism can justifiably be blamed for causing a great deal of suffering but Atheism and Capitalism cannot”.

Varsity.co.nz has a novel prank of the year.

The online education database has the top seven alternatives to Wikipedia. They are:

1 Scholarpedia – done by experts

2 Citizendium – articles are approved, users use real name

3 Encyclopedia Britannica Online – but costs

4 MSN Encarta – also costs

5 Infoplease – from Pearson Education

6 Conservapedia – unintentionally hilarious

7 Uncyclopedia – intentionally hilarious