Day: December 16, 2009
Canadian Fishing
Obviously fake. No humans really talk like that.
Secular Charities
A helpful list of nonreligious charities.
(via Pharyngula)
What English Sounds Like to Non-English Speakers
I think I understood more English in this than any James Brown song I’ve heard.
Sumerians Look On In Confusion As God Creates World
Members of the earth’s earliest known civilization, the Sumerians, looked on in shock and confusion some 6,000 years ago as God, the Lord Almighty, created Heaven and Earth.
According to recently excavated clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform script, thousands of Sumerians—the first humans to establish systems of writing, agriculture, and government—were working on their sophisticated irrigation systems when the Father of All Creation reached down from the ether and blew the divine spirit of life into their thriving civilization.
“I do not understand,” reads an ancient line of pictographs depicting the sun, the moon, water, and a Sumerian who appears to be scratching his head. “A booming voice is saying, ‘Let there be light,’ but there is already light. It is saying, ‘Let the earth bring forth grass,’ but I am already standing on grass.”
“Everything is here already,” the pictograph continues. “We do not need more stars.”
Historians believe that, immediately following the biblical event, Sumerian witnesses returned to the city of Eridu, a bustling metropolis built 1,500 years before God called for the appearance of dry land, to discuss the new development. According to records, Sumerian farmers, priests, and civic administrators were not only befuddled, but also took issue with the face of God moving across the water, saying that He scared away those who were traveling to Mesopotamia to participate in their vast and intricate trade system.
(via J-Walk)
Today’s Lunch Craving
I’m dying for some pho at the moment. But I have no time to eat lunch out today and it’s really not a good office takeout food…
Question of the Day
Our very own Cynical Inquisitor General Abbi Crutchfield asks:
What was the last event you crashed? How were you able to sneak in?