One part marine invertebrates + two parts Edward Lear = Digital Cuttlefish. Very silly.
Category Archives: Asides
“Intelligent design” isn’t.
Nor is Ben Stein’s movie “Expelled” intelligent. You already knew that, but the National Council of Science Educators gives resources to back up your knowledge here.
Author releases self under CC license
An author has released himself under a Creative Commons license. Science fiction author Cory Doctorow has made himself available for download under a creative commons license. As usual, science fiction authors are well ahead of mainstream authors in their use of technology.
New rule
New Rule: No more talking about Jeremiah Wright, either pro or con, until you read this CNN commentator’s blog, with extensive excerpts from Wright’s sermons. Extra bonus points for listening to the entire recording of the sermon, available at the end of the blog post (I did not listen to it, no bonus points for me).
Who’s going where
The UU Enforcer has begun posting his annual list of which Unitarian Universalist minister is going to which congregation. (N.B.: He doesn’t post names until the church has made a public announcement.) Many of us find great entertainment value in this list, which shows how deprived our lives are.
UU TV
Peter Bowden has the beta version of uuplanet.tv up and running. He’s aggregating online video produced by or pertaining to Unitarian Universalism.
Stories shared
Will Shetterly posted some great stories on his “Sharing Stories” blog on Sunday. I’m particularly fond of “The Princess Who Kicked Butt”. (Gotta love authors who post fiction for free — now we gotta get out there and buy some of their books!)
Gospel of Judas
Biblical scholar April DeConick reports on the recent Codex Judas Congress on her blog: “The CJC did result in at least one consensus. It was agreed that the Gospel of Judas was written as a critique of mainstream or Apostolic Christianity…. What was the critique about? All agreed that the eucharist was being critiqued in the text. Some thought also baptism.”
Thirty-nine
Happy birthday to my father, who’s thirty-nine. Just like Jack Benny.