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miscellaneous
Moment of Jimmy Swaggart Zen
Sep 23rd
Xeni Jardin:
During a recently broadcast sermon in which he discussed his opposition to gay marriage, evangelical telepreacher Jimmy Swaggart said:“I’ve never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry. And I’m going to be blunt and plain: If one ever looks at me like that, I’m going to kill him and tell God he died.”
Someone please tell me how such an attitude is considered Christian? Whatever happened to Thou shalt not kill
? Or even Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain
? WTF? I cannot even begin to imagine how someone who’s supposed to be a believer could say such a thing. I don’t consider myself religious but this guy manages to offend me. This guy gives religion a bad name and he’s supposed to be a preacher?!?
Blue Hour from the album Ether Song by Turin Brakes
Morphine Apparently in Your Head
Sep 23rd
Researchers find that humans produce their own morphine. If naysayers finally believe it, the discovery could boost pain and addiction research. By Kristen Philipkoski.
And here I was thinking that it was already well-know that the brain can produce morphine-like molecules. Or are endorphins something entirely different? Maybe that’s what it is… What do I know?
Chemical, Chemical from the album The New Romance by Pretty Girls Make Graves
Missile balloons!
Sep 9th
Microsize Boy from the album The Attraction to All things Uncertain by tweaker
Slow Friday
Sep 3rd
It’s a slow Friday, Labor Day is looming, so here’s a little game to get you in week-end mood!
Sunday morning reading
Aug 29th
I managed to get up early enough this morning and got some reading done. Here is a couple of interesting articles:
- Reason Online has a nice review of the themes explored by Masamune Shirow in the Ghost in the Shell universe, focusing on the first Stand Alone Complex season.
- The Village was a very disappointing movie for me: I thought it had a lot of potential but ended up just being silly. Discussing the movie with friends, I eventually managed to articulate what I thought made the movie a failure though it took some discussing to get to that point. It was therefore interesting to see that an article exploring M. Night Shyamalan’s filmmaking hubris mirrored my opinion concerning the movie. I also agree with one commentator’s suggested improvements.
Subbacultcha from the album Trompe Le Monde by Pixies
Tricks of the Trade
Aug 25th
I’m a pack rat for bits of information I will probably never use. So obviously, I find posts like
Tricks of the Trade over at The Morning News totally essential! 
Backfire The Chaff from the album Staggering Statistics by The Staggering Statistics
Lode Runner for OS X
Aug 6th
Uh-oh! There goes any hope of doing anything remotely productive in my free time: Lode Runner is being remade for Mac OS X.
Via: Cult of Mac
New glasses
Jul 16th
I got new glasses today. I feel like a stranger in a strange land…
Saint Simon from the album Chutes Too Narrow by The Shins
Happy Bastille Day!
Jul 14th
It’s Bastille Day today. Going to celebrate at the French embassy in D.C. after work. Champagne!
Time lapse photography
Jul 6th
I had the idea of doing something similar (with my friend Robert) to what Sam Raimi has in mind with his “century cam”. Except that my idea involved a much smaller time frame (a single year, one picture per week) and scale (a single spot: initially a spot was to be chosen in Great Falls park). I have always been fascinated with time-lapse photography and the passage of time, though in the case of Raimi’s project, if it ever gets done, the time scale is such that no-one currently alive would see the end result. Check out Third View as well! Via worldchanging, one of the best weblogs I know of.
Now for more pictures though not time-oriented: iPod does Paris! Via Cult of Mac.
Wired has a nice article on photographing the analemma.
Let’s Get It Started (Spike Mix) from the album Elephunk by Black Eyed Peas
