From the monthly archives:

September 2009

Qur’an.mp3

September 11, 2009

We’ve been told that the iPod’s earphones may damage our hearing and distract us from traffic, but now a scholar from the al-Azhar mosque in Cairo has warned that listening to recordings of the Qur’an is dangerous for the soul. Sheik Gamal Qutb has warned that if someone listens to the Qur’an in public (presumably [...]

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Would the real Dante Alighieri please stand up?

September 9, 2009

It’s the 9th of the month, so that means Visceral have released info about the next circle of Hell: this time it’s the 4th circle, “Greed” (I would have stuck with “Avarice”, but then I would have done a lot of things differently to them). This time the team reveals that Dante, now a veteran [...]

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Where do videogame characters go when they die?

September 8, 2009

Charles Martinet, the voice actor who’s provided the voice for Mario of Super Mario Bros fame, chatted with Jason Hill of The Age‘s ‘Screen Play’ blog about his life as a CG plumber (from Brooklyn!).  This bit almost made me cry (only slight exaggeration), but also shocked me with its profundity: I imagine you do [...]

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Dear Goog…

September 7, 2009

Paul Sheehan had a piece in The Age today about Google as a religion, although after a brief glimpse of the parodic Church of Google he launched into a description of Google as Mankind’s hive-mind. A hive-mind does not make for a god, Paul. It IS interesting, however, how much we rely on Google to [...]

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Edward Cullen, you’re my hero

September 6, 2009

I heard rumblings along the inter-tracks about a religion based on the Twilight novels (and, I suppose, films), but a Google search just pulled up a bunch of pages that seem to stem from an Urban Dictionary post (wherein the original poster coined the term “Twiligion”). The straighter-faced side of this stems from a thread [...]

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@God on Twitter

September 6, 2009

The whole God-Twitter thing continues, possibly because media outlets are OBSESSED with social media’s current darling and terrified of the possibility that their finger may be perceived as being somewhere away from the pulse of Today’s Youth. This is another grab from The Washington Post‘s ‘On Faith‘ blog, which really serves more as a general [...]

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What does your Facebook info say about you?

September 6, 2009

I left the the Political and Religious Views fields on my Facebook profile blank, partly because I don’t subscribe to any easily definable school and partly because they’re not really anyone’s business. But while I might be jealous of my own privacy, I have no compunction scouring other people’s profiles to see what they’ve entered. [...]

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