A guy from BJU sent me an email telling me about his blog, Living Worship. If you like to read and talk about worshiping God, you’ll probably enjoy the site.
On a completely unrelated note, here’s a video of a Furby in a microwave.
Blogged with Flock
It appears that Parker Brothers has done away with the multi-colored money in their famous Monopoly game and replaced them with debit cards.
Now, if they would just do something about the game being almost entirely luck-driven and boring….
Blogged with Flock
Michael Damsky, a student at the University of Central Florida, had an ingenius plan to meet girls. He decided to set fire to a couch in the women’s dorms, in hopes of meeting the women as their building was evacuated.
The plan was less successful than you might think: Orange County police arrested the man for arson.
So, here’s a question for you: What is the most interesting way that you’ve encountered for meeting people of the opposite sex?
For example, I had a friend who was one of the two male interior design students, and I’m pretty sure his motivation had more to do with his classmates than his coursework. 
How about you? I’m looking forward to reading your comments.
Blogged with Flock
Did you know that the BBC has 3 full time employees who make sure that words are pronounced correctly?
Blogged with Flock
I got this in my email yesterday:
A cowboy walked into a bar and ordered a whisky. When the bartender delivered the drink, the cowboy asked, “Where is everybody?”
The bartender replied, “They’ve gone to the hanging.”
“Hanging? Who are they hanging?”
“Brown Paper Pete,” the bartender replied.
“What kind of a name is that?” the cowboy asked.
“Well,” said the bartender, “he wears a brown paper hat, brown paper shirt, brown paper trousers, and brown paper shoes.”
“How bizarre,” said the cowboy. “What are they hanging him for?”
It’s 6/6/6 today, much to the delight of the superstitious. Enjoy whatever odd signs you may see today–pentagrams in goat’s blood on your front lawn, old hippies parading down the streets shouting “The End is Near!,” or what have you. It won’t happen again for another hundred years!
Would you like a complete computer that could fit in a standard wall socket? Of course you would. It’s also energy-efficient: it can be powered by a network cable. Of course, the downside is that the computer isn’t very powerful. The idea is to plug a screen, keyboard, mouse, and speakers into it, then connect to a central server that does all the hard work of processing your files. But still, quite cool.
Story number two: How would you like to wear this thing?
It’s a jet pack. They’re finally here!
Finally: A 65-year-old woman, standing in her kitchen, praying for the safety of her family as they travelled in a storm, survived a lightning strike. Make of that answer to prayer what you will. 
I just found a fun little anagram generator: Type in words, get back their “hidden meaning.” Blog Jones rearranges to “Leg on Jobs,” which I suppose means I should start competing with Apple somehow.
It’s powered by the Anagram Genius anagram engine, which was apparently used to create some of the anagrams used in the Da Vinci code. The Anagram Genius website has an archive page for some of the best anagrams that users have discovered. For example, did you know that if you rearrange the letters in “Continental Airlines Incorporated,” you get “Idle proletarians in concentration”?
But my personal favorite, which I discovered myself: “George W. Bush” becomes “He grew bogus.” Interesting, no?
According to this list, there are 905 versions and counting of the Monopoly board game.
Pity that Monopoly is such a terrible, terrible game. If you haven’t already, you should try playing Settlers of Catan instead. It’s much more fun.
This is the first funny BC comic I’ve seen in a long time.
I have just played the best strategy game ever made. Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords came out this week. I was sorely tempted to buy it on Tuesday, but I knew, I knew, that I would get nothing done for the rest of the week if I did. So I waited until yesterday, after school, after work, after the revival service at church… Finally, I was able to start playing last night.
This game is everything Master of Orion III should have been. These guys have done an incredible job.
GalCiv II is a turn based strategy game, where you start off with a single planet, a survey ship, and a colony ship and you go try to explore and expand into the galaxy, research new technology, and even get into intergalactic wars with other races.
The game has all kinds of great features that you don’t normally see in these games. For example, not only can you design your own ships in the sense of choosing what weapons, engines, etc. go on it, but you can customize how it looks. The ship design engine is amazing.
Stardock did a great job of polishing the game too. Not only are the graphics superb, but the attention to detail in the gameplay is excellent as well. For example, in most of these games you can trade technologies with other races. In those games, you can sometime give them obsolete technology along with current technology to get them to give you more stuff. In GalCiv II, you can’t–the opposing race will say ~~It wouldn’t really do us much good to have that obsolete technology, now would it?~~.
I love it. It’s $40, available at your local retailers and via download from Stardock.
This is fun, especially if you enjoy squinting: The World’s Smallest Website. Play pong in a 50×50 pixel window.
(Listen to this AP audio clip to get the gist of the story.)
According to the AP, the Army has started a new program to teach soldiers how to pick good spouses. The program is called either “How to Avoid Marrying a Jerk” or, in true Army fashion, “‘P.I.C.K. a Partner,’ for Premarital Interpersonal Choices and Knowledge.”
They even have this odd salute:
Maj. John Kegley, a chaplain who teaches the program in Monterey, Calif., throws in the “no jerk salute” for fun. One hand at the heart, two-fingers at the brow mean use your heart and brain when choosing.
Gotta love ‘em.
America Online’s Instant Messaging service (AIM) has new marketing copy that has far-right Christian groups up in arms. WorldNetDaily asks “Is new AOL IM slogan marketing blasphemy?”
Let’s take a look at a screenshot, courtesy of WorldNetDaily. (I’ve visited the site and it matches this screen shot.)
Can you spot the “offensive slogan”?
Don’t worry, I’ll wait.
That’s right! It’s the words “I am.”
When Ian Millar opened up his AOL Instant Messenger program yesterday and linked to the new AIM Triton site, he wasn’t prepared for what he saw.
“I have been an AIM customer for many years, and although I do not use AOL for my mail client, I have recommended it for relatives and friends,” he said in a letter to top executives of the company. “In general, I appreciate AOL and your business savvy.”
But when Millar saw the company’s new slogan, he was shocked and disgusted. He was not alone.
Oddly, WorldNetDaily does not refer to any other sources, so I don’t know if he was alone in his outrage or not.
He points out to AOL executives that “I AM” is the English translation of YaHWeH, the self-proclaimed name of God.
“He is the Creator and Savior of the world,” explains Millar. “He alone is to be worshipped. To take His name in vain, or use as a common thing is blasphemy, a vulgar sin of offense. Perhaps you have not read the Third Commandment, since they have removed it from so many public monuments in the last decade. But breaking it as a means of marketing your products offends the mind of everyone who worships Him.”
Ooh, nice job working in the 10 Commandments issue to a completely unrelated topic. -2 points for rabbit trailing.
“You must immediately change the name of your program,” he told Jonathan Miller, the chief executive officer of America Online, and John Buckley, corporate communications officer for the company, in a pointed letter. [”]I can assure you that you will lose business over this marketing tactic from people who worship the Almighty.
A rather demanding chap, isn’t he? And I like how he assumes that the entire Christian community sees things his way.
But worse, you have offended Him by your actions; whether they are deliberate or ignorant.
And how he assumes that God sees things his way.
To treat as common the name of God is wicked. God is patient, but mankind is today making an error of epic proportions by the deliberate actions of mocking the Almighty; particularly in the technologically advanced society. His patience with the mockery of mankind will come to an end.”
OK, so it’s not abortion that’s going to send God’s wrath against America. It’s not even gay marriage. No, what’s really going to get God mad at us is the misuse of English linking verbs.
Millar suggested AOL would never think of using – or misusing – the names “Allah,” or “Buddha” in its corporate marketing efforts.
This is yet another example of Christian Paranoia: “They’re all out to get us! Christians are the only group that it’s politically correct to make fun of!”
AOL officials were not available for comment.
I imagine not. They probably thought it was a prank call.
Seriously you guys. Aren’t there enough real problems in the world that you can spend your time on?
(Via IMAO’s article Outraged by AOL? We AM!!)
Well, virtually. See it on the U.S. News and World Report website.
Bill O’Reilly and the rest of Fox News would like you to believe that there is a vast contingent of the American public who wants to ban Christmas, that we need to save Christmas from liberals and from American retailers who say “Happy Holidays.”
Before all that, however, came a much more effective war on Christmas, from the Puritans:
Liberal plots notwithstanding, the Americans who succeeded in banning the holiday were the Puritans of 17th-century Massachusetts. Between 1659 and 1681, Christmas celebrations were outlawed in the colony, and the law declared that anyone caught “observing, by abstinence from labor, feasting or any other way any such days as Christmas day, shall pay for every such offense five shillings.” Finding no biblical authority for celebrating Jesus’ birth on Dec. 25, the theocrats who ran Massachusetts regarded the holiday as a mere human invention, a remnant of a heathen past. They also disapproved of the rowdy celebrations that went along with it. “How few there are comparatively that spend those holidays … after an holy manner,” the Rev. Increase Mather lamented in 1687. “But they are consumed in Compotations, in Interludes, in playing at Cards, in Revellings, in excess of Wine, in Mad Mirth.
A brief visit to dictionary.com tells me that compotation is the act of drinking or “tippling” together and that Interludes are a “short farcical entertainment performed between the acts of a medieval mystery or morality play.” It does not, however, tell me what “Mad Mirth” is. But it’s basically clear that Puritans are generally against happiness on Christmas, regardless of its source.
On the other hand, there is something to what the Fox News guys and the “put Christ back in Christmas” advocates are saying. Here’s a shot of my paper’s “Faith and Values” section this morning:
The section I marked in blue is the only section which I would have expected: A column by Billy Graham reminding us why we celebrate Christmas. The yellow section is a column about Christmas that does not mention the word “Christ” once. And the section marked in green, which takes between 2/3 and 3/4 of the page, is the poem “A Visit From St. Nicholas.” In the Faith and Values section.
Perhaps the editors are Santaists!
It’s a SwifferBot! Cheaper than a Roomba Vacuum robot, and cuter too!
James Lileks, author of a new book called Mommy Knows Worst: Highlights from the Golden Age of Bad Parenting Advice, wrote the following in his daily column The Bleat:
Drove home; talk radio was bothersome. Repetitious contention without conclusion; verbal whack-a-mole.
Yeah. That about sums it up.
From The Devil’s Dictionary:
IDIOT, n.
A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot’s activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but “pervades and regulates the whole.” He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.
And, because I want to, I’ll add a few more Words of the Day (or “WotDs”):
INFIDEL, n.
In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.
IMPENITENCE,n.
A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.
IMPIETY, n.
Your irreverence toward my deity.
IN’ARDS, n.
The stomach, heart, soul and other bowels. Many eminent investigators do not class the soul as an in’ard, but that acute observer and renowned authority, Dr. Gunsaulus, is persuaded that the mysterious organ known as the spleen is nothing less than our important part. To the contrary, Professor Garrett P. Servis holds that man’s soul is that prolongation of his spinal marrow which forms the pith of his no tail; and for demonstration of his faith points confidently to the fact that no tailed animals have no souls. Concerning these two theories, it is best to suspend judgment by believing both.
Fun!
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