Posted in church geekery, teh internets on 30 July 2008 - 28 תמוז 5768
VER AT The Lead Jim reports on a stupid case of rumours and telephone:
The Episcopal Church and an unspecified number of African bishops were to meet on the lawn in front of the media centre tomorrow at 3 p. m. to have it out. The Africans have demanded that the meeting be held in [...]
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Posted in teh internets on 30 July 2008 - 28 תמוז 5768
ONG TIME Reader and comment-writer on these pages, Fr Ernesto, (someone I’ve known online since the mid 1990s) has finally gone and got himself a blog of his own: OrthoCuban.
Welcome to the Blogosphere and, although I’m no longer a citizen, enjoy your stay in Orthoblogoslavia!
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Posted in church geekery, teh internets on 20 July 2008 - 18 תמוז 5768
ISHOP Marc blogs on the possible evolution of the ministry of episcope:
I think that a new phase for the exercise of episcopé will be for bishops to seek to connect the people of God more directly with one another, rather than through us.
One of the interesting things I’ve noticed about the internet is it [...]
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Posted in teh internets on 16 July 2008 - 14 תמוז 5768
S THE Bishops (who are not boycotting) gather in Lambeth, let us keep them in our prayers. There is a box in the side-bar, generated by a compiled feed of all the Blogging Bishops. I’m going to try and avoid ranting about ‘em. There’s enough in their world.
What’s important to note is [...]
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Posted in teh internets on 15 July 2008 - 13 תמוז 5768
ITH Props to BoingBoing, this is possibly one of the coolest science projects I’ve ever seen. The University of Nottingham is doing videos about each element in The Periodic Table of Videos.
Hmm. That Alvin-and-the-Chipmunks voice thing? I always thought it was because of some action of the helium on your vocal chords… [...]
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Posted in politics, teh internets on 7 July 2008 - 5 תמוז 5768
IVE A listen to the sins of our people…
The Trail of Tears: Episode 1 and 2 are both there.
I’m feeling rather moved by it because of knowing that I would be gone: the moving of anyone “with one drop” of Indian blood… that my whole family would have been gone. It’s kinda odd, just [...]
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Posted in teh internets on 7 July 2008 - 5 תמוז 5768
INY URLs are generated by various websites and services. They take longer, unruly URLs and convert them to a very short, seemingly random string of letters. I say “seemingly” because I’m sure there’s a code involved and because they can sometimes spell something.
I found this in my Brightkite stream:
http://bkite.com/00RGY
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Posted in teh internets on 5 July 2008 - 3 תמוז 5768
ood afternoon Mr and Mrs American and All the Ships at Sea!
The following has just arrived from an Anonymous Tipster out in radio-land. I think we need to get ready: we may have already missed the rapture.
It finally happened, and I think the apocalypse has begun. I was watching a political commentary program [...]
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Posted in asheville, saints and days, teh internets on 4 July 2008 - 2 תמוז 5768
jesUSAves - patriotic porn
Originally uploaded by zen.
Thanks, Zen, for that little slice of life in Asheville, NC! On that note, I’m going to sit down to watch/sing 1776
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Posted in saints and days, teh internets on 1 July 2008 - 29 סיון 5768
Joyeux Fête du Canada
In Honour of Canada Day, I present this special report from McLeans:
Special Canada Day Report: How Canada stole the American Dream The numbers are in. Compared to the U.S., we work less, live longer, enjoy better health and have more sex. And get this: now we’re wealthier too.
And don’t forget to [...]
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