I know a little about the Mayan “calendar round,” and have an amateur-archeologist interest in Pre-Colombian cultures. I’ve had conversations with people who actually believe the movie and book hype, promulgated by people who’ve taken a distorted view of Mayan texts in order to sell more books or movie tickets. The Mayans believed that time was organized like a set of nested, revolving rings; they were trying to keep both lunar and solar time, and they were such keen astronomers that they worked out the cyclic nature of how the two sets of rings synced up in 52-year “short count”…
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UPDATE: The church voted to overturn the ban; actually they were reminded by the national association that their resolution was invalid as it violated state and federal laws. Interestingly, at least 30-40 people voted unanimously to overturn, either emboldened or cowed by the news that it was illegal. No breakdown as to whether the abstainers all voted and the ones who voted to ban stayed home. You’ve heard about this. After a talented young interracial couple performed a gospel song at a small Kentucky church they had been attending, the former pastor told the girl’s father the couple was no…
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Read the juicy quotes by IL-08 GOP leaders, who’re mighty ticked at Teabagger Joe, and then enjoy Tammy Duckworth’s devastating smack down. Link: Anger Among Party As Walsh District Shops
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David’s dad told us about this, he’ll be shocked to see it made the national news. A store in a suburban Chicago shopping mall closed for two hours Friday morning after people and merchandise alike were knocked to the ground during what police called a “mass push of bodies.” Link: Chicago-Area Store Closes For Two Hours After Mass Push Of Bodies On Black Friday VIDEO – The Huffington Post
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I’ve resolved to blog more often, play around with the blog design, and all that. I’ve been a little too focused on getting things squared away on the church Facebook page and a little too unfocused on… pretty much everything else going on around here, including blogging. Part of that is, yes, it’s hard to blog on the iPhone from work. I’ll just be getting over that hump however I can in future. Meanwhile, some funny sad, funny ha-ha, and funny weird things, all having to do with right-wing ideology, Paul Krugman, rock-and-roll, and/or humor. New York Times columnist Paul…
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– Too funny. The wheels are coming off of Joe “Deadbeat Dad” Walsh’s bus. He’s not doing anything for the district, he’s been redistricted into a primary with another GOP Congressman, and he doesn’t deal well with critics. He prefers the “way to go, Joe!” sycophants on his Facebook page – there mostly fromfrom the Cro-Magnon Wing of the Republican Party. I hope this teaches people in the district a lesson: “VOTE. Or the crazies win.” U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) met with some constituents in the Chicago suburb of Gurnee Sunday — and apparently didn’t like what some of…
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Getting Started with WordPress Custom Menus | Think Vitamin I'll be implementing this later on the St Nicholas website. CSS overflow property html – CSS content overflowing containing div – Stack Overflow Subtle Patterns | Free textures for your next web project
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August – Online Marketing, Brand Strategy, Online Technologies & Email Marketing Example of an excellent clean newsletter subscription box Use the Google+ Bookmarklet on your iPad/iPhone | ajb{log} How to Setup Your Facebook Connect Application » Otto on WordPress How I eventually set up some social linking between Facebook and the church blog/website I maintain. The biggest hurdle was that Facebook has a maddening API process, and I somehow created 2 apps, and was using the settings for the wrong one when configuring this plugin. It eventually worked, still waiting to see if it inserts a link to the original…