I’ve been spending some time online lately. I spent some time with family lately, too, and they’ve shared some onliney things with me. I share some of them with you now:

- Behold the results of taking photos with the flash.

- I’ve been watching a Doctor Who spinoff called Torchwood. It’s pretty good. And not just because the main character is a fox.

- The Onion cuts to the quick.

- Wouldn’t it be neat if you could run Windows applications on your Mac without restarting or using laggy third-party software? It might not be that far off.

- I’m convinced that we are living in the future already.

- The new Batman movie looks like it might be pretty much the most awesomest ever.

- If you don’t know what ytmnd.com is, you should start with this, this, this, and this.

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I’m feeling slightly better. Some of you might be hearing from me soon.

I’m feeling better today.

Yay.

People like me don’t believe in Jesus Christ, the Trinity or God. While Mitt Romney tells America about his religion, let us not forget how he feels about people who have no religion at all:

Mitt Romney is an anti-intellectual bigot, flatly stating that an atheist is incapable of being President.

In the days of the founding of the country, they didn’t have such a thing as atheism. To not believe in God was unthinkable. They did have something close, though: deism.

Many of the founding fathers, the chief architects of this country, believed that the Creator, if he existed at all, had no role in the natural universe.

No Jesus, no miracles, no scriptures – what would Mr. Romeny say about that?

I have accumulated a groaning heap of links. Wander too near, and I’ll push it over on you:

- A developer’s view of Mass Effect (a highly-anticipated role playing game for Xbox that you can read about at its Wikipedia page), concentrating on its foibles and failures. The last glimpse of the game I personally saw was the E3 trailer from last year – the promises it made are not kept by the game that eventually came out. For instance, none of the “innovations” mentioned in the trailer actually appear in the game I bought. It’s Knights of the Old Republic 3, adding almost nothing to Bioware’s legacy.

- The Tina Fey Scar Detective aims to deduce the nature and history of its namesake. What childhood accident caused the most distinctive facial deformity in the history of late night television? The above blogger has all the latest.

- Speaking of SNL, did you know that Christopher Guest was a host of Weekend Update? It’s true!

- New pictures of Batman and the Joker were released. I’m sold.

- Have you heard about Jessica Alba’s newest movie?

- Back in 2002, Writer’s Against Piracy protested a well-known hotbed of thievery.

- Check this out, but don’t watch it where people might care about noise.

- If I were as smooth as Snoop, my problems would be over.