What better way to cherish your religious leader’s fatal torture than with a battery-powered broadcast of the Lord’s Prayer?
“Many people affix crucifixes and other religious iconography to the walls of their homes for metaphysical security. Crucifix NG goes a step further, bathing a physical space in an anointed electromagnetism.”
The cross sends out a radio broadcast of ASCII text. And it cures all diseases.
The Onion’s got a great piece referencing Lubbock, TX.
Clarkson added: “And when we opened up the back of the truck and they saw that it was full of Bibles… Grown men and women wept in front of their children. That’s how moved they were by the Holy Spirit. That’s how I know it’s all been worth it.”
I find it particularly poignant due to the time I’ve spent in the city among people just like the fictional Clarkson from the story. The Christian/conservative sentiment in Lubbuttocks is strong enough for me to sadly wonder whether or not this story is true or not.
Conspiracy videos are a lot of fun to dig up and watch. From bigfoot documentaries to the masons to the JFK assasination, theres something for all of us.
This video is apparantly about the september 11th attacks in 2001 and the government conspiracy to cover up parts of it. I haven’t watched the thing yet, but I have skimmed and it seems to have some common threads to some of the other 911 conspiracy movies I’ve sat through.
So I was trying to register for blogger, and someone with the same disdain for TV culture has taken my name. Serrendipitously, from what little I’ve read, I happen to agree with him on at least a few things, for example:
“The Democratic Party has a strategy of pleasing voters who don’t care about politics. That makes no sense because those people don’t vote. The Republicans realized long ago to play to their base. Lie to the Christians and make laws for the CEO’s. It works. Democrats should take a lesson from Howard Dean. His campaign started off so well because he said he was a liberal and never apologized. People were thrilled to hear about universal health care and better schools. If John Kerry and his money would have embraced those ideals and shouted them out proudly, the world would be a much better place today.”
Well said Chris!
The Nokia 770 is a very exciting product to me. It brings mobility and wireless connectivity together with an open source operating system.
I’m very happy to see that DougT over at Mozilla has gotten Minimo, the cut-down version of a Mozilla browser (presumably firefox), running on the 770. See here, its a beautiful thing:
So he has come right out and said it. That’s one way to face the critics, by advocating exactly what they’re criticizing you for supporting. Anyway it’s a good watch. Culture war is in full swing.
Joseph DuRocher, a veteran helicopter pilot with the Navy has written a powerful open letter to the president expressing a sentiment that many of us share. He expresses very well the helplessness that many of us feel as our country is caught up in an unjustified war, illegal torture, etc.
A good friend of mine, Scott, is in transit right now to Iraq as a Navy Helicopter Pilot. He believes in this war, and I’d like to as well, but I can’t see how. The situation is deteriorating over there, with the bombings of the Golden Mosque in Samarra upsetting many in the Sunni community. Without a significantly larger US(+whoever) force, we have no chance of effectively controlling the fate of the 50ish million people in that country in the long term.
We won’t commit any more troops to it, and we’ll eventually get our head straight on stop throwing so much of our money away in this grotesque fireworks show over there.
We will pull out, sooner or later, with pretty much the same situation we have today. The question will be: Can civil war and the ensuing genocide can be prevented? Who will come to power, and how do we keep them from being more of a threat to us? Will we see accountability in those who were so eager to sell us this war? Will we have to wait for the memoirs?
So Digital Kitchen is pumping out fresh new ads for Microsoft’s Origami handtop. I assume that since they’re vying to get themselves into both the booming PDA space and the hyper-$1000 dollar loseable keyboardless gadget space.
Someone really should edit this video to make it more accurately represent a microsoft experience….just throw about 2 annoying seconds of lag after everything a user trys to do. THAT would be truth in advertizing
Congratulations to the Students at Mount Saint Vincent University, who have got software by Turnitin banned because it allegedly brought about punishment which was too severe, automatically presumed guilt and created a climate of fear.
They also aired fears that the PATRIOT act provisions would cause the papers to be subject to searches under the Patriot Act and students were worried about intellectual property right issues.
As a fan of re-use and collaboration and thereby libraries and open source software, I think it’s easy for professors and administrators to put too much faith in computerized cheating detection. Determining when someone’s use of other material is inappropriate or against the rules is very difficult and should be left to humans with reasoning skills.
While I was a student at UF, the professors in the CISE department would say they ran all of our programs through MOSS and they regularly caught people cheating. Perhaps this type of thing will spread.
