Not normal fare around here (if there’s such a thing), but I thought this was quite amusing:
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the slippery slope
I think it time to share Shields’ Slippery Slope Axiom (although I’m sure someone else has said this before): The truth lies half way down the slippery slope. Many set off down the slope and slide to the bottom. Many remain at the top seeking to avoid the slope having seen too many slide to…
a model prayer?
This prayer shows that the predilection for self-interest expressed in some streams of modern christianity is nothing new. It is a prayer of one John Ward, M.P., from 1727: O Lord, Thou knowest that I have nine houses in the city of London, and that I have lately purchased an estate in fee simple in…
noah’s ark
Well, here it is, in all its rendered lego glory, Noah’s ark. Now you may notice a larger cube next to it (sort of a timber borg-cube?). That’s Utnapishtim’s ark which, although shorter, is considerably wider and taller (well, it is cube shaped). The latter also has more than three times the volume, making for…
the crimes of santa claus
In time for Christmas, I’m resurrecting something I wrote some years back… Santa Claus has long been held up as a jolly figure to be admired and respected, particularly by the kiddies. In reality he is a far darker and more sinister figure who promotes greed and self interest. Below is a list of the…
go west, young man!
I like precision. If my watch is more than 2 seconds off the real time, I feel the need to rectify it (if only Aus had an atomic radio signal like most of the civilised world). Not only do I like to know precisely what time it is, I like to know precisely where I…
the dirt on dirt
I’ve just seen yet another ad for a product which will kill 99.9% of all household germs. I’m worried about the 0.1% that are tough enough to survive and then have free reign since our anti-bacterial wonder-sprays have left the field completely free from competition. Surely they’re the germs we really should be worrying about,…
educational nursery rhymes
Just a quick post this week. It has long struck me that there are educational opportunities we miss with young children, one of them being in the realm of nursery rhymes and other songs we teach the kiddies. In our house I’ve tried (with limited success) to introduce some variations to the normal wording in…
בראשית or ΕΝ ΑΡΧΗ or “in the beginning” part II
OK, I’ve been having some trouble getting unicode to display with WordPress, I tried upgrading, but nothing seemed to work. Finally I managed to get it working by editing wp-includes/wp-db.php and commenting out the lines setting the $collation_query to “SET NAMES utf8”. For some reason, this now seems to have things working and I can…
In the beginning…
For years I’ve resisted starting a blog, happily confining myself to posting comments on other blogs, writing posts to forums, and the like. Why the change? I’ve been driven to start this blog through frustration after trying to post a comment to a blog with moderated comments but having the comment refused. That will probably…