Have a safe weekend everybody!
Day: April 28, 2006
Trading Bibles for Porn
“We consider the bible to be a very negative force in the history of the world,” student Ryan Walker said. Walker is part of a student group that calls itself the Atheist Agenda.
Club members this week posted fliers promoting what they call the “Smut for Smut” campaign then set up a table in the student union to collect religious materials and pass out adult magazines such as Black Label and Playboy.
Praying for Lower Gas Prices
Various Christian clergy from around the country will convene around a Washington, D.C., gas station Thursday at noon to pray. For those who can’t attend, a live Internet site and toll-free prayer line have been established.
In a release, the Pray Live group said many people are “overlooking the power of prayer when it comes to resolving this energy crisis.”
Apart from sending a message to God, the rally had a message for humanity, said Wenda Royster, the group’s founder.
“It is our hope that seeing and hearing some of the nation’s most powerful preachers gathered around a gas station and the United States capital as a backdrop, will remind everyone who is really in charge of our world — God,” Royster said.
(via J-Walk)
Friday Crab Blogging
Venice in LEGO
Impressive but the site doesn’t say what this was done for.
Wine to Pair With Popcorn and Pretzels
- But if it’s Cheetos, go with Three Thieves Zinfandel, which comes in a jug
- Buttered and cheese popcorn (heated in the oven and drizzled with truffle oil) with any sort of sparkling wine, like Perrier Jouet Champagne Grand Brut
- Animal crackers with Oregon pinot noir
Animals in Space
We’ve covered dogs and monkeys being launched into space but I didn’t know that France had launched cats into space.
Wikipedia has a great entry about animals being sent into space.
Albert II in a U.S. launched V2 became the first monkey in space on June 14, 1949 (after the failure of the original Albert’s mission). Albert II died on impact after a parachute failure
(Thanks to PVC for the cat link)