Some place between 40 and Death
Posted in jocularity, orthoparadoxy on 29 March 2008 - 23 אדר ב' 5768
Imagine a world where this advice was accepted by Christians as normal instead of idiotic.
LET THE “OTHER” SIDE HAVE “YOUR” STUFF! Jesus says, “If anyone wants to go to law with you over your tunic, hand him your cloak as well.” (Or, in the Geoff Mackey translation: “If anyone wants your pretty ecclesiastical trinkets, give [...]
Posted in jocularity on 15 March 2008 - 9 אדר ב' 5768
OK… it’s been a bad news day: bombs, crashes and the economy, plus Tornadoes Tear Through Downtown Atlanta. It’s kinda scary actually. There’s also the crane crash in NYC.
While we’re praying…
Let’s thank the NYTimes for catching this classic, “I just washed my hair” photo from the Omni Hotel in Atlanta:
HEY! Lady! [...]
Posted in jocularity on 14 March 2008 - 8 אדר ב' 5768
Posted in consumer, jocularity on 26 February 2008 - 21 אדר א' 5768
In the NY Times today, breaking news - A Nation Briefly Without Starbucks :
At 5:30 p.m. Eastern time today, all 7,100 Starbucks locations in the United States will close their doors for three hours.
Immediate ramifications stretch far beyond the lack of strong coffee in dozens of permutations, though that was certainly the most important [...]
Posted in jocularity, politics on 25 February 2008 - 20 אדר א' 5768
Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
Please note: this is from the Onion. Despite the fact that it looks like tomorrow’s headlines today…
Posted in jocularity on 22 February 2008 - 17 אדר א' 5768
Over at peer-see, we find a set of Building Blocks for teaching English Chinese children: but the blocks are made in China by native-born Chinese speakers. So they make some interesting choices…
(Props to BoingBoing.)
Posted in jocularity, teh internets on 22 February 2008 - 17 אדר א' 5768
And here is a Free Example: Compact cameras have arrived at That Stage.
Compact cameras have arrived at That Stage. They work very well. Resolution is high. We have swiftly leapt from two to three to five to eight to 12 megapixels. Memory cards are cheap and contain far more capacity than could ever be sanely [...]
Posted in jocularity on 22 February 2008 - 17 אדר א' 5768
Total props to balatro for making me snarf my morning coffee:
I just happened to be skimming through channels and caught The Colbert Report, which I’m a big fan of, and he was interviewing Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson (who I think had something to do with castrating Pluto as a planet?) and he was showing [...]
Posted in jocularity, uberfrum on 15 February 2008 - 10 אדר א' 5768
From Google Sightseeing, to-day is an Holy Day
for the frumest uberfrums, without regard to thier denomination or sect.
Posted in Judaism, jocularity on 14 February 2008 - 9 אדר א' 5768
I’m late to the party… but I like this
» Not being a jerk about it...:
- #» Still desperate for any attention at all (The Queen City, that is... although Queen of the what? That's the real question.)
- #» Papercraft CCTV: Be Yer own Big Brother!
- #» T-shirt gets Van Nuys woman kicked out of federal building: DHS Rent-a-Brownshirt gets in serious trouble.
- #» Priest cancels nun beauty contest. Damn. I was hoping the next stage would be the "Father What-a-Waste" Hunky Priest contest!
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The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 by Eamon Duffy
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