A giant fiberglass statue of Jesus burned to the ground after being struck by lightning last night. The irony… someone must have been saying for years: “if I’m lying, may God strike that there Jesus statue!”
…imagine what that person is saying now — something probably filled with expletives.
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Wanda Sykes Show avoids RIAA by playing public domain songs: http://digg.com/d31HJ2E?t
Mattel is supposedly releasing it’s first-ever item for pets this fall called Puppy Tweets. It’s a tag that attaches to your dog’s collar and is designed to send tweets to your dog’s twitter account (methinks you’ll have to set that up for him) based on what he’s doing. The tweets are prewritten in typical dog categories: napping, running, eating, etc.
So, twitter will be full of more spam, and this time from dogs instead of internet marketers. How many followers will each dog’s ‘puppy tweet’ really receive, since they are preformed snippets of text? Puppy Tweets may sound cute for each dog’s owner to follow, but essentially this toy is nothing more than a See n Say for the internet age. 
not a place where we’d recommend living: http://i.imgur.com/yYiu2.jpg
Beethoven’s Skull for sale: http://digg.com/d31Fzpx?t. the point?
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A pottery shard featuring a form of ancient Hebrew writing – the oldest Hebrew writing ever found – leads scientists to believe that certain texts in the Bible may be older than originally thought.
The pottery shard, dug up at an excavation in Khirbet Qeiyafa, near Israel’s Elah valley, dates to the 10th century B.C., during the period of King David’s reign.
Until now, many scholars believed the Hebrew Bible originated in the 6th century B.C., because Hebrew writing was thought to stretch back no further. But the newly deciphered Hebrew text is about four centuries older.
“It indicates that the Kingdom of Israel already existed in the 10th century BCE and that at least some of the biblical texts were written hundreds of years before the dates presented in current research,” said Gershon Galil, a professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Haifa in Israel, who deciphered the ancient text.
This is a pretty cool finding for those interested in Biblical history.
Oh yeah, the text on the pottery shard translates in English to:
1′ you shall not do [it], but worship the [Lord].
2′ Judge the sla[ve] and the wid[ow] / Judge the orph[an]
3′ [and] the stranger. [Pl]ead for the infant / plead for the po[or and]
4′ the widow. Rehabilitate [the poor] at the hands of the king.
5′ Protect the po[or and] the slave / [supp]ort the stranger.
The inscription, while missing letters, is similar to some Biblical verses, such as Isaiah 1:17, Psalms 72:3, and Exodus 23:3, but it does not appear to be copied exactly from any Biblical text.
Not to spoil the story: click the amazon item below, then scroll down to the section called “customers who bought this item also bought…” and look what’s in there. One of these things is not like the other! Yikes!
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