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THE WORD OF CHRIST / Surprisingly indistinguishable from one’s personal opinion, actually.
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Archive > May 2009
Pressure To Look Attractive Linked To Fear Of Rejection In Men And Women
The researchers found that overall women showed greater sensitivity to appearance rejection than did men. [Biological roots for aesthetics and behavior? No way!]
Pressure To Look Attractive Linked To Fear Of Rejection In Men And Women
232 Sudanese Slaves Liberated – Yahoo! News
The liberated slaves reported having been subjected to beatings, death threats, rape, female genital mutilation, forced conversion to Islam, racial and religious insults and work without pay. Some slaves reported witnessing the execution of fellow captives. [Why won't Muslims protest this? Too busy protesting bans on beards for certain jobs, or other more important matters?]
http://loopcenter.sourceforge.net/
I didn’t want to shell out for a Boss Loop Station guitar pedal, and I figured I could achieve the same functionality pretty easily with a simple program. The result was ‘Loopcenter’.
ACIDplanet.com: Free Downloads: ACID Xpress
ACID Xpress is a free, 10-track version of ACID software for music recording, editing and mixing.
Benny Lava – Take it Easy Policy
Released on year 1994
Jihad Watch: "Whatever the decision, we will kill you": Member of prosecution team threatens woman on trial for "blasphemy" in Pakistan
And Islamic clerics stormed the courtroom to demand a guilty verdict.
Flight Control – A game for iPhone and iPod Touch
Touch and drag your aircraft to their landing zones, and avoid mid-air collisions.
Avatron Software Products – Air Sharing
Mount your iPhone or iPod touch as a wireless drive on any Mac, Windows, or Linux computer.
Mutapic
Mutapic is an online picture generator. It is a free tool you can use to rapidly create original art.
Trevor Blake: Catching Up to 1960
Google Wave sounds like an incomplete version of Project Xanadu.
Confessions of a Non–Serial Killer – Michael O’Hare
not a single person who matters in my life—not law enforcement, not friends and family, not students, not colleagues—ever gave Penn’s views a minute’s credence, so I’ve never regretted not lifting a finger to refute them or defend myself.
BBC: Gay Muslim story for EastEnders
EastEnders is to tackle a storyline which will feature a Muslim man embarking upon a gay affair. Newcomer Syed Masood, played by Marc Elliott, will fall for openly gay man Christian Clarke (John Partridge) and the pair will share an on-screen kiss. [...] Yusuf Wehebi from Imaan – an organisation that supports gay Muslims – agreed with him. “It is high time that the invisible minority became a visible minority,” he said. “It is entirely possible to be Muslim and gay and there’s many of us in Britain today.
[Article continues at link. Well, sure, it's entirely possible to be Muslim and gay. Just like it's possible to be a vegetarian and eat meat, or a virgin and have sex. As long as one of the two things you are is clearly defined and the other is a synonym of "being good" then you're good. If being a vegetarian, or a virgin, or a Muslim are your way of saying "being good" then you can "be good" and be anything else too. This is why religion spends so very much time claiming it is synonymous with morals and ethics and "being good." If you argue against religion, you're arguing against "being good." So if Yusuf Wehebi is gay and "good" and "good" means Muslim, then sure. But it's a kind of Muslim in which being a Muslim has nothing to do with being a Muslim. Not following the Quran, not following Muhamed, not following Muslim leaders, not following the Muslim majority, not following Muslim governments. If you take out all these, what is left of being a Muslim? If you have an axe consisting of a handle and a head, and you take off the head, and you take away the handle, do you still have the axe? Wehebi uses "Muslim" as shorthand for "being good." It's not unlike something recently posted at feminisnt [NSFW]: “In general, I’m tired of ‘feminist’ being used as a blanket qualifier to mean ‘awesome’, especially when it comes to the concept of feminist porn. I think ‘awesome’ works just fine as a qualifier for awesome.” Islam isn’t a good thing that a few people twist into something awful. Islam is something awful that a few people twist into something good. Rather than make one’s sexual behavior accommodate the superstitions of illiterate goat thieves from thousands of years ago, maybe… maybe it’s okay to just have sex and not worry about what an invisible monster that lives in the sky thinks about it. – Trevor Blake]
Jesus killed Mohammed: The crusade for a Christian military—By Jeff Sharlet (Harper's Magazine)
They had commissioned the Special Forces interpreter, an Iraqi from Texas, to paint a legend across their Bradley’s armor, in giant red Arabic script. “What’s it mean?” asked Humphrey. “Jesus killed Mohammed,” one of the men told him.
Jesus killed Mohammed: The crusade for a Christian military—By Jeff Sharlet (Harper’s Magazine)
Sikorsky Cypher – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Sikorsky Cypher and Cypher II are types of unmanned aerial vehicles developed by Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation. They are vertical takeoff and landing aircraft which use two opposing rotors enclosed in a circular shroud for propulsion.
