June 2008
Eleanor and the camera by heather
Always Wear Gloves
Learn more about Adam’s special skills in You Look Nice Today Episode 4, “Peak Hair”.
Scott’s House
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Not This Quarter
Phone Guy’s not gonna boil the ocean.
I suggest the deletionist wankers go and cluster around an alternate online...
– Tim Bray, on Wikipedia’s “deletionist morons.”
Anti-Social Behaviour Order (Less common ASBOs)
Less conventional uses of ASBOs, as listed by a report to the Home Office to illustrate the difficulties with ASBOs, include:
Two teenage boys from east Manchester forbidden to wear one golf glove.
A 17-year-old forbidden to use the word “grass” as a term of abuse in order to threaten people.
A 15-year-old forbidden to play football...
Flying in a car felt like an exhilarating hallucination, an unbelievable ride...
– Padma Lakshmi, describing the childhood auto accident that led to that cool scar.
Raaaahhrrrr
So: Who is Karl Van Hœt?
Please ignore the book of Revelation entirely, any movie made about it, or...
– TJ, from his Twiddiots Guide to the Bible
Jesus Seminar (Authentic sayings, as determined by the seminar)
Turn the other cheek (92%): Mt 5:39, Lk6:29a
Coat & shirt: Mt5:40 (92%), Lk6:29b (90%)
Congratulations, poor!: Lk6:20b (91%), Th54 (90%), Mt5:3 (63%)
Second mile (90%): Mt5:41
Love your enemies: Lk6:27b (84%), Mt5:44b (77%), Lk6:32,35a (56%) (compare to black rated “Pray for your enemies”: POxy1224 6:1a;...