Christian FAIL
Thursday, October 30th, 2008In the spirit of the FAIL Blog — see this –
Ugh, I do not even know where to begin. Where is Charlton Heston when you need him?
Archive for October, 2008
“No on Prop 8″ site attacked
Thursday, October 30th, 2008Towleroad reports that the “No on Prop 8” Web site received a denial-of-service attack last night. Just the kind of thing you’d expect from the no-holds-barred opponents of same-sex marriage.
Why? Surely because No on Prop 8 is raising money through that site. I donated last night before that attack, but used the Better Democrats portal, […]
Model: Ubuntu Open Week — what if churches . . . ?
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008Fascinating. Announced today:
We are really pleased to announce Ubuntu Open Week!
Ubuntu Open Week is a week of IRC tuition and Q+A sessions all about getting involved in the rock-and-roll world that is the Ubuntu community. We organise this week for the beginning of a new release cycle to help new contributors get involved.
IRC — Internet […]
I do not consent to being searched in Metro
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008O joy, o rapture! Metro has started random searches. Sounds like security theater to me, and I don’t intend to be a part of it. (Gladly, I walk to work and most shops.)
If you enter a Metro station where a screening is taking place — they come before the fare gates — you have the […]
Where a home is a bench
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008Reader NDM takes me to task on Christian terms for my call to boycott Utah for organized Momon California Prop 8 actions. That’s put my thinking in a biblical bent today.
So when I read that a Ohio judge has allowed homeless voters to use the address of a bench or other non-building as a residence, […]
New version of Ubuntu Linux due tomorrow
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008Ubuntu Linux 8.10, codenamed “Intrepid Ibex”, is due out tomorrow, October 30.
Even though it doesn’t have tons of new features — and won’t include OpenOffice.org 3 by default; it came out too late to be included, but can be added by end users — I’ll be sure to upgrade it tomorrow. (The last edition, 8.04 […]
What kind of hardware does your Ubuntu computer have?
Saturday, October 25th, 2008I got my laptop secondhand, so I wasn’t entirely sure what I had.
The following command not only details my hardware, but creates an HTML (web page) file for reference, which you can then read in a browser like Firefox.
Which is good news for me: turns out there is lots of room for more RAM to […]
Different tune with Adin Ballou hymn text
Saturday, October 25th, 2008C.W.S. at Conjubilant With Song, who commented on my recent Universalist hymnal post, recently wrote about Emily Swann Perkins, a Presbyterian tune composer. She matched one of her own tunes to “Years Are Coming, Speed them Onward”, a hymn by Universalist minister Adin Ballou.
An alternative to the much-labored Hyfrodol, as used in Singing the Living […]
A kind of Russia-Cuba detente I never saw coming . . . .
Saturday, October 25th, 2008From the official site of the Russian Orthodox Church (in English):
“A Russian Orthodox church consecrated in Havana“
The Church of Our Lady of Kazan was consecrated on 19 October 2008 by Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations, who was assisted by Archbishop Mark of Hust and […]
What are you reading now?
Friday, October 24th, 2008An open thread.
