I was tinkering with the template (while humming the “Blacksmith’s Chorus”) and took out some stuff, may take out some more stuff, added in some stuff. Maybe someday (not soon) I’ll get past the “hey, here’s some cool crap to stick on the sidewall” stage. Check this out – now visitors get mapped. So where you at? It’ll show on the map. It’s pretty funny to zoom all the way in on satellite view. But funny ha-ha, or funny weird? Not sure yet, but click the new “gVisit Log” link in the right column and you’ll see a Googlemap showing…
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Hey! Remember that Downing Street Memo thing? I blogged about it on June 12: I see via various blogs (BoingBoing and others) that the Downing Street Memo still hasn’t gotten much mainstream media attention. The new website on the Memo has a lot of information on the issues surrounding the document, and also under the Take Action link, you can sign on to the letter to the President that asks the questions originally asked by Sen. John Conyers and 88 other members of Congress on May 5, 2005. There’s a link to a PDF copy of the actual document, with…
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>BRANDON, Fla. – (KRT) – U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris is holding court in a crowded Republican Party headquarters in a strip mall east of Tampa, fielding questions from an enthusiastic crowd, eager to hear her thoughts on abortion, gay marriage and stem cell research. Then, from the back of the room comes the inevitable: “How do you plan on dealing with people still mad about the 2000 election?” The immaculately groomed woman in the perfectly tailored suit smiles. ”Do you think anybody will be?” she asks coyly. ”We simply followed the law.” Her audience applauds, delighted at the response from…
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Brother Roger, founder of the ecumenical Taize’ community, was murdered Tuesday during a vespers service by a woman who is probably mentally disturbed. There’s not a lot of information, but it was a shocking, tragic end to a life of prayer and meditation and peace. This is a terrible loss to Christians everywhere, as Brother Roger was working to reconcile different streams of Christianity and lend support to the disenfranchised. The Taize’ community, founded in 1940 by Brother Roger when he was 25, became a safe haven for political refugees and people of all faiths, among them Jews fleeing the…
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Flickr and Yahoo, those two cahootsers, are integrating even more by making it possible to sign in to Flickr using a Yahoo ID. This is supposed to make it easier to use and easier to invite people, and they’ve made the sign-up process even easier. So hey Timmy! Why don’t you sign up for Flickr and start putting some family photos up? How about everybody else in our far-flung family? I’ve been having a lot of fun with it lately and still have plenty of photos that I want to highlight there. I’m starting to join more group pools and…
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Priest’s Pooch Welcomes N.D. Parishioners – Yahoo! News AAAAAH! I’ve been talking about starting a dogwalking club at Holy Moly. These guys get national PRESS because their priest brings his dog to Mass. Oh, man. We gotta get us some Episcopawlians.
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Seen on my way in to work the other day: a woman not just putting on makeup while waiting at a red light, but using an eyelash curler. If you’ve never seen or used one, it’s an instrument of torture marketed as a beauty aid. It has a scissors-like thing that squeezes two pads together; you position your lashes between the pads, give a squeeze, and presto! Curly eyelashes. We had one for years in the downstairs bathroom at my mom’s house; I fooled around with it a few times but concluded that it made my already fairly curly but…
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Rev. Paul Landahl, bishop of the Metropolitan Chicago Synod, said he was disappointed with the decision to maintain the policy of ordaining only those gays and lesbians who remain chaste, but grateful the assembly did not make the policy more restrictive. “We welcome gays and lesbians, but only so far,” he said. “So if you feel the gift of the spirit and the call to ministry, well, you’re going to have to sit on that because our welcome doesn’t include that. And that to me is offensive.” Damn. That’s disappointing. Very sorry to see how close the vote was, too.
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This image was sent from Flickr as a blog entry, email or cameraphone image. Via: Flickr Title: Bus crack By: GinnyRED57 Moblog: a dry crack is a happy crack! Originally uploaded: 13 Aug ’05, 12.18am PST
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Near-Arctic Readiness Force of the Domination of Eiler I see that the Dominator has added to the Dominion of Eiler, and that He has graciously included a photo credit. Click on the link, scroll all the way down, and there’s the NARF-Cycle in the winter picture wot I took last year. There it is parked in all its arctic glory on the pile of snow plowed up in front of Holy Moly’s handicapped parking sign. The Dominator bypasses man’s restrictions by parking anywhere He damn well pleases. Coincidentally, the Dominator is also the Ineffable Bass. (stats pages is fun reading…