GOD DOESN’T EXIST AND STORIES AROUND JESUS WERE CREATED LONG AFTER HE DIED
But have a happy Christmas and be your charming, delightful selves to each other.
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ORSON WELLES ON COLD READING
The splendid Welles discusses Cold Reading with a young David Frost. It’s a gem of a clip… and years later of course, if we wish to, we can cut to Frost enthusiastically endorsing Uri Geller on Beyond Belief.
Splendid stuff.
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Pope Benedict claims ‘saving humanity from homosexuality as important as saving rainforest’
Pope Benedict said yesterday that saving humanity from homosexual behavior is as important as saving the rain forests. The pope said human relationships that were not heterosexual were “a destruction of God’s work”.
He added (whilst wearing a dress and a ton of jewelry): “The church should protect man from the destruction of himself. The tropical forests deserve our protection. But man does not deserve any less.”
The Catholic church teaches that homosexuality is not sinful, but that homosexual acts are.
Mirror (spelling mistakes and bad grammar not included)
MY WEEK OFF
Every year I get a week off to go abroad and think about work. We have just returned from staying in and around Lisbon as guests of some wonderful friends. Here I am relaxing – look at me all relaxed – outside the gorgeous hotel that I put us up in, and the other picture is of me with some chick in a hotel room. Decide for yourselves who is cuter.
Lisbon is rather charming, though Coops wouldn’t have liked it as the pavements are not made for skating. Above all, it’s such a treat to be looked after by very generous hosts. It makes me want to be a more generous host. And thus loveliness is spread. Kindness is all. Nice to be back.
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Museum of Hoaxes
John Brady has been charged with second-degree aggravated harassment for calling random people and trying to convince them to perform a rectal exam over the phone. He got at least one person to do this.
More of this incredible behavious at the Museum of Hoaxes
The Mystery of Edward Leedskalnin – Coral Castle
How is it possible for a short, 100 pound sickly man, working alone and using only simple tools, to have quarried, cut, trimmed and assembled over 3 million pounds of dense coral blocks to build a castle? And, to have interlocked the stones with exacting precision, some weighing up to 30 tons, without the use of mortar? Called Coral Castle, and sometimes called The Eighth Wonder of the World, this castle was originally located in Florida City in the 1920′s, then in the mid 1930′s it was moved single-handedly to its present location on a ten acre tract near Homestead, Florida.
Amazingabilities.com (Thanks Ekaf)
The Milgram Experiment Today?
Students commonly assume that, even if Milgram’s famous experiment sheds important light on the power of situation today, were his experiment precisely reproduced today, it would not generate comparable results. To oversimplify the argument behind that claim: The power of white lab coats just ain’t what it used to be. Of course, that assertion has been difficult to challenge given that the option of replicating the Milgram experiment has been presumptively unavailable — indeed, it has been the paradigmatic example of why psychology experiments must be reviewed by institutional review boards.
Sleep mailing
Doctors have reported the first ever case of someone using the internet while asleep, after a sleeping woman sent emails to people asking them over for drinks and caviar.
It was only when a would-be guest phoned the next day to accept, that she found out what she had done.
The 44-year-old woman, whose case is reported by researchers from the University of Toledo in the latest edition of medical journal Sleep Medicine, had gone to bed at around 10pm, but got up two hours later and walked to the next room.
She then turned on the computer, connected to the internet, and logged on by typing her username and password to her email account. She then composed and sent three emails.
Each was in a random mix of upper and lower cases, not well formatted and written in strange language.
One read: “Come tomorrow and sort this hell hole out. Dinner and drinks, 4.pm,. Bring wine and caviar only.”
Another said simply, “What the…”
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