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May. 12th, 2006 06:23 am
May. 12th, 2006
Old, but I've never linked it before.
May. 12th, 2006 06:26 am
Yes, it's a real comic. Click the link to read the whole thing.
Friday Tradition!
May. 12th, 2006 06:34 amToday's cover OF DOOM is a death metal band covering REM. It's exactly as awesome as it sounds.
Graveworm - Losing My Religion
Graveworm - Losing My Religion
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May. 12th, 2006 09:00 amSo. Look at this and tell me it doesn't look like a hurricane forming over Lake Michigan.
(I'm quite aware there are no warm tropical seas anywhere near Michigan. It's still awesome.)
(I'm quite aware there are no warm tropical seas anywhere near Michigan. It's still awesome.)
In a hypothetical future, interstellar travel and colonisation is possible. FTL is either nonexistent or still slow enough that it takes most or all of a lifetime to travel to a new planet.
How do Muslims reconcile this with the requirement to visit Mecca once in their lives?
And what direction do they face to pray on the trip (assuming it's not in cryosuspension) and once they arrive on their new extraterrestrial home?
This is the kind of thing I think of when it's a slow day at work.
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EDIT: At least one set of Muslims has considered the question and issued a Fatwa. I can't located a reference to which branch of Islam they belong to, though, or a link to the original Fatwa.
How do Muslims reconcile this with the requirement to visit Mecca once in their lives?
And what direction do they face to pray on the trip (assuming it's not in cryosuspension) and once they arrive on their new extraterrestrial home?
This is the kind of thing I think of when it's a slow day at work.
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EDIT: At least one set of Muslims has considered the question and issued a Fatwa. I can't located a reference to which branch of Islam they belong to, though, or a link to the original Fatwa.
... but this one, of the Dom of Koln, beats the shit out of the pictures I have of the same building.
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May. 12th, 2006 07:58 pmUN elect new Human Rights Council, including as members China, Cuba, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
This is, remarkably enough, an improvement over the previous council, which included Sudan, Zimbabwe, Syria, Nepal, Eritrea and Ethiopia.
This is, remarkably enough, an improvement over the previous council, which included Sudan, Zimbabwe, Syria, Nepal, Eritrea and Ethiopia.
And give me all the cookies, too.
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May. 12th, 2006 08:19 pmFor the D&D geeks out there, we have a bunch of people coming up with an interesting and original fantasy world setting based around one of the most boring and unoriginal things ever created.
And you know I'm all about taking things that suck (D&D, that monster) and making them not suck again.
If you're at all a fan of high fantasy a la China Mieville, and you know what D&D is, read the original post. The rest of the thread is up to you, if you find the original interesting.
And you know I'm all about taking things that suck (D&D, that monster) and making them not suck again.
If you're at all a fan of high fantasy a la China Mieville, and you know what D&D is, read the original post. The rest of the thread is up to you, if you find the original interesting.
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May. 12th, 2006 10:22 pmDiebold spokesman:
"Rodents Of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist."
"Rodents Of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist."
