Here’s George Carlin on swearing on the Bible:
“Yeah — I’ll tell you as much truth as the people who wrote that fucking Bible, how do you like that? Swearing on the Bible doesn’t mean anything, because Bible or no Bible, God or no God, if it suits their purposes, people are going to lie in court. [...]
Everyone has strange beliefs. What’s the strangest belief you have?
I generally try not to believe weird things. But my strangest belief is that someday we’ll be able to store our memories digitally and transfer them to other bodies (like our own, regrown). That is, if we survive that long!
So what’s yours?
Tim Minchin on the danger of opening your mind too much:
It is really exciting for me to get this new design up. I’ve been on wordpress.com since I started and while that has served me well, it’s time to move on.
What’s New
Here is an overview of what has changed:
The site is now wider. This gives more room for the sidebar and the content.
Larger/wider youtube videos.
Sidebar [...]
I’m trying to move things over again tonight. Comments are disabled. Hopefully you’ll be seeing the new site soon.
Update: If you’re reading this, you’re on the new site! Unfortunately not everything is working right yet — like threaded comments. I’m still trying to sort some of this out. Thanks for your patience!
Update 2: If there [...]
I wouldn’t have expected this:
Now that’s modern art:
Parishioners at a church in Sweden celebrated Easter on Sunday by unveiling a 6-foot-tall (1.8-meter-tall) statue of Jesus that they had built out of 30,000 Lego blocks.
It took the 40 volunteers about 18 months to put all the tiny plastic blocks together, and their creation shows a standing Jesus facing forward with [...]