The Muggletonian Revival

  1. Distance Learning Notes from All Over: Al Qaeda University. Via Defense Tech blog.
  2. Math + childhood TV + lol = Pi. burningskyz will appreciate I’m sure.
  3. I’ve never been a fan of the online comic strip Penny Arcade, but their response to attorney/psycho Jack Thompson on their page is wonderful. Years of experience dealing with online trolls gives them an edge, I think.
  4. When you’re camping in the Antarctic, weird stuff happens to the steam from your coffee.
  5. Merle Haggard wants us out of Iraq.
  6. Students create edible WHAT?

Is this an El Niño year or something?

THE NATL WEATHER SVC IN SAN DIEGO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR.
NO. CNTL ORANGE COUNTY IN SW CA
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF.YORBA LINDA.PLACENTIA.LA HABRA.
FULLERTON.BREA.ANAHEIM

* UNTIL 215 PM PDT

* AT 115 PM PDT.NATL WEATHER SVC DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL.AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
YORBA LINDA.& MOVING NW AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR.
LA HABRA BY 130 PM PDT

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL & DAMAGING WINDS.CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY! LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER.IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER.YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

I hate the darkness but I love the rain

  1. Essential furniture: The cephalopod table.
  2. Oh great, color laser printers have secret tracking data they put on your printouts. I hate it when paranoid schizophrenia turns out to be appropriate.
  3. These weenies in the U.S. who type furiously about war have nothing on the toughest warblogger of them all. Current mood: bloodstained.
  4. Surrealist mustard watches. Yes.
  5. PANDA CAM! PANDA CAM! PANDA CAM!

GOD-POG-DOG-BLOG, BLOG-DOG-GOD-POD?

God Blog ’05
GodBlogCon God Blog Convention

Quotes:

Aaron Flores is co-founder of Armor of Light Productions -a ministry geared towards embracing culture and emerging generations. He is creator of the blog turn videoblog, theVoiz.com where he intimately shares his personal life, faith, culture, art, and other areas of interest using video, new media, and the internet. For Aaron, theVoiz.com is an experiment with new media, social networking, and cultural engagement. Aaron takes his nickname, The First Christian Vlogger lightly since theVoiz.com is simply he’s way of sharing life with others.

[…]

Since I began blogging in 2003, I have experienced this on so many levels. As a Christian blogger who also writes about politics, I’m accused of being offensive, harsh, and unloving. What many unbelievers don’t realize is that Jesus was offensive and harsh, and his actions would seem unloving to some. For example, he said that unless you repent, you will perish. That is, you will be destroyed. Does that sound loving?

[…]

Stacy L. Harp is the President and Founder of Mind &; Media an online publicity company that utilizes the blogosphere’s potential to market Christian books, music and products. Stacy also writes daily at the recently launched Persecution Blog . She also maintains a more personal blog called Writing Right where she discusses the issues of the day while adding humor and inspiration.

Also: GODBLOGCONBLOG?

Orange County Vignettes

One:

I was at the coffee house talking to a young (22 year old) guy I know, and one of his friends came up to greet him. The guy had a large bandage on one hand obviously covering a bad cut. On questioning, he revealed that he’d been in the back of a limousine on the freeway, and that after sudden braking he’d slashed his hand open on a broken champagne glass.

Two:

At the Kragen Auto Parts, a beautiful and willowy young woman with luminous blue eyes and long blonde hair is buying some small automotive part or other. In line ahead of her is a strong-and-simple young bro guy with backwards ball cap, tattoos, and Black Flys sunglasses. He asks her what she’s fixing, and after some back and forth he realizes that she has a completely incorrect item and takes her back to the aisle and they point at things and talk for a bit. They return with different items. He obviously wants a phone number. They go outside together and there’s an awkward five minute conversation in which she puts him off in the most pleasant possible way and he persists in the most gentlemanly possible way, and then she leaves in a gigantic black SUV. He returns to working on his ten year old BMW sedan, which is also black.