World of Genesis… craft. Of War.

September 6, 2010

Rumours of a Bible MMO have been greatly exaggerated. The Bible Online: Chapter 1 – The Heroes looks to be less than its source material might promise. Players assume the role of Abraham and (somehow) his descendants; this last being perhaps the most interesting feature mentioned. I’m not sure how they could incorporate that into [...]

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Holy water on tap

February 28, 2010

Enterprising Italian inventor Luciano Marabese has developed an automatic holy water dispenser to be used until fears of Swine Flu (the H1N1 Virus) have abated. Many churches, including Milan’s cathedral, had suspended use of their holy water fonts following 15 deaths in the nation, so Marabese has been inundated with orders for the device. I [...]

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The other kind of Halo

February 21, 2010

Returning from an Xbox 360-enforced hiatus (having gotten one just after Christmas), it’s entirely appropriate I finally post the following story (and no, it’s not about alien religions in Mass Effect). Aaron Linne from Christian company LifeWay has developed a multimedia Bible app for the Xbox 360: Bible Navigator X. The move from printed to [...]

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Expressing Free Market Parables Since 2009

December 16, 2009

Some of you may have already heard about Conservapedia’s ‘Conservative Bible Project‘ (CBP). American “Conservatives” (who, like conservatives in Australia, are often the most radical) have begun a wiki project to rewrite the Bible free from “liberal distortion”. Their problem with current translations is as follows. As of 2009, there is no fully conservative translation [...]

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One fish two fish, Jewfish Few Fish

December 15, 2009

There was an article in the Herald about typos on Google Maps, one of which rendered Oatley Park’s Jewfish Bay as “Few Fish Bay”. I imagine it was just misreading on the part of the data enterer, but it reminded me of a friend’s complaint that she was unable to search for “Jew” on Google, [...]

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Why are people so unkind?

December 14, 2009

Okay, so I’m mixing my Indians (Malaysian/Sri Lankan Tamils, actually) with that title, but you get the point. The Wampanoag tribe of Nantucket Sound in Massachusetts have applied for their land’s status as a Traditional Cultural Property on the National Register of Historic Places in a last ditch bid to stop a wind farm being [...]

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SEX! Now that I’ve got your attention, come to Church online

December 11, 2009

A piece on msnbc.com about online commuting to church. Apparently they even perform baptisms over webcams. I love this quote from Kurt Ervin, who runs the website for Central Christian Church We live in a day and age and a culture where people go to school online, bank online, date online and do other things [...]

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DDoS of God

December 10, 2009

And, yea, I shall delve into the archives for something to write about, for you may know me as a fisher of compliments, but I say unto you, I have become as a fisher of posts. On the 19th of October the Atheist Foundation of Australia and the Global Atheist Convention websites suffered a Distributed [...]

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In Purgatoriorio

December 9, 2009

Apologies to Msrs Diamond, Yauch and Horovitz. David P often links on Facebook to places he’s discovered on Atlas Obscura, a site dedicated to weird and wonderful travel destinations around the world. One of these was the Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatory, in Rome, which displays a number of bibles, prayerbooks and other [...]

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Because I’m THAT kind of pedant

December 8, 2009

That’s right. The WORST kind. David P posted this a few weeks ago on Facebook, and I’m only just now getting around to posting it. Retrosexual David Malki has composed a list of fictional collective nouns for supernatural entities, and some of them are religious. I’ll let you work out which ones. I think you’ll [...]

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