Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-31-2009

[andrewducker]

• 51 Conspiracy Theories That Don't Exist But Should
  4. Publicly released Hubble images are actually the results of Photoshop tutorials by Industrial Light and Magic interns.
  
  18. In 1992 Patrick Stewart and William Shatner had a bare-knuckles boxing match in the basement of a sound stage in Hollywood, the result of which Shatner had to die at the end of Star Trek: Generations.
  
  32. The Dinosaurs were wiped out by a doomsday device of their own making. The evidence is the abundance of iridium at the 63 million layer.
  
  43. MSG, as it turns out, is actually very important to brain development. The Chinese put out misinformation to the rest of the world so that they'll have a leg up in the New World Order.
  
  45. Snopes.com is actually run by government spooks so they can cover things up by calling them âœurban legends.â
  (tags: conspiracy hoaxes funny)
• CATcerto.
  1) Video your cats playing with your piano 2) Compose a piece based around the Philip Glass-esque results 3) Get an orchestra to perform it 4) WIN!
  (tags: video music cat)
• Quakers to allow gay marriages
  Will also petition the government to change the law to allow gay marriages rather than civil unions.
  (tags: law relationships religion UK lgbt)
• Bubble Spinner
  Another addictive game
  (tags: games flash puzzle bubble)

Comments

[meihua.livejournal.com]

> Quakers to allow gay marriages

Not yet. Not quite yet. Give it a few more hours, and it'll be certain.

[meihua.livejournal.com]

Ok. Now it's finalised. Celebrate now. :)

[andrewducker]

Engaging celebratory mode NOW!

[makyo.livejournal.com]

Hurrah for the Quakers! Again! (They have a very long history of being in the vanguard of social reform, including treatment of the mentally ill, prison reform, gender equality, and recognition of same-sex relationships.)

[meihua.livejournal.com]

Don't forget conscientious objection! :D

Yes, hurrah!

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

32. The Dinosaurs were wiped out by a doomsday device of their own making. The evidence is the abundance of iridium at the 63 million layer.

IIRC, there was a novel called Toolmaker Koan with a premise something like that.

[makyo.livejournal.com]

Don't forget conscientious objection! :D
Oh yes, of course. With a track record like that of the Quakers, I was bound to miss at least something major off the list.

I was very pleasantly surprised (as a devout agnostic) a while back to learn that although the Quakers have their origins in Christianity, the movement has grown considerably beyond that, to the point where there are not only Friends from other religions, but also that being agnostic or atheist is not considered a bar to membership. I don't know, offhand, of any other Western religious tradition which doesn't have "believing in God" as a mandatory prerequisite.

[derumi.livejournal.com]

43. MSG, as it turns out, is actually very important to brain development. The Chinese put out misinformation to the rest of the world so that they'll have a leg up in the New World Order.

Actually, the truth is MSG only kills white people. ;)

[simont]

45. Snopes.com is actually run by government spooks so they can cover things up by calling them 'urban legends'.

I think it's a constitutional requirement that somebody has to cite http://xkcd.com/250/ in response to that, so it might as well be me...

[daisyflip.livejournal.com]

Quakers seem to be lovely. I really like all the Quakers I've ever met. They seem quite big on the whole 'oh, just sit and have a wee think and calm down' way of living. I approve of that. They're basically wanting to tell the Catholics to take a chill pill.