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Flying Spaghetti Monster

Flying Spaghetti Monster

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The Flying Spaghetti Monster made it into the Wikipedia, nice!

The Flying Spaghetti Monster is the deity of a religion, known as Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, started on the Internet by Bobby Henderson as a parody of the decision by the Kansas State Board of Education to allow intelligent design to be taught in science classes alongside evolution. Henderson submitted an open letter to the Kansas Board of Education demanding that the Flying Spaghetti Monster be given equal time in classrooms along with Christian and all other creation myths. The “religion” has since become an Internet phenomenon garnering many followers preaching the word of their “noodly master” as the One True Religion.

The doctrine of this emergent religious movement centers on the belief that the Universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster and mandates that His followers shall wear full pirate regalia to ward off natural disasters caused by the decline in numbers of pirates.

Shiver me timbers and ahoy! Ra-men.
(Thanks Jean-Marie!)

Unconscious Mutterings 7-10

Unconscious Mutterings 7-10

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Note to HK: “Unconscious Mutterings” is just a blog toy – just for fun. Every week we get this handy list of words – and we just free associate. The first word is theirs, the second, mine.

  1. Do-it-yourself:: disaster
  2. Pickpocket:: or two
  3. Ballet:: tour jeté
  4. Resumé:: curriculum vitae
  5. Phenom:: fab
  6. Love/Hate:: fervor
  7. Unusual:: pussycat
  8. Intense:: repulsion
  9. Interruption:: syncope
  10. Not enough:: sample – I mean, ample
Miscellaneous Legends

Miscellaneous Legends

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OK, I havn’t visited Snopes in a while. Here’s a couple of true and false claims for ya.

True

An Islamic bank is the majority owner of the Caribou Coffee chain.

Wal-Mart (sort of accidentally) resold toys left with it to be donated to needy kids.

JELL-O is made from animal bones and hides (cows and pigs) – but not hooves.

A lightbulb manufactured in 1901 burns bright to this day.

President Bush appointed W. David Hager, a physician and anti-abortion activist, to an FDA committee on reproductive drugs.

A Texas woman who cast her vote for all Democratic candidates discovered her ballot marked for Bush/Cheney. (Only one reported?)

False

Chewing gum takes seven years to pass through the human digestive system.

We only use 10% of our brains.

Members of Congress receive lavish pensions but are not required to contribute to the Social Security fund.

Workers at the Corona brewery urinate into the beer.

Poinsettia plants are poisonous to humans.

Coca-Cola is an effective spermicide.

MIT Blog Survey

MIT Blog Survey

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Take the MIT Weblog Survey

Go ahead! Take the blog survey and be a statistic for MIT.

(I always wanted that for you honey. I know.)

And check this out – screen shots of Windows 1.0 all the way to XP. I remember every one of them. My first PC was an IBM PS2 – no hard drive. Ran a DOS version of Word Perfect off a floppy, using function keys to format documents. Actually, it wasn’t that different from basic html coding. Turn the italics on, turn them off. I was a first year graduate student in Iowa City, and it sure was easier than typing and retyping. Could it really be 18 years ago already? Somehow I was supposed to have raised kids and earned money in the meantime – but Ben is only 5 and I’ve only just graduated… Is anyone hiring in Atlanta? I really need to start paying off these student loans so that I will be debt free when I’m 72…