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New additions to the religious blogroll: "Walking Circumspectly" and "Drink Deeper".

What if the IRS had discovered the Quadratic Formula?

I don't agree with all of it, but reading between the rhetoric, there are some interesting points in this article on the historical reasons for state-organized schools.

From the paraphrased-much-too-far version of Romans 14: "One person's faith allows him to watch any screen, but another man, whose faith is weak, watches only computer screens. The person who watches all screens must not look down on one who does not, and vice versa. Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To his own master he stands or falls."

Canada's Watergate.

I hadn't heard this Will Rogers quote before. So very very true.

They do stuff.

Chopper!

Theocracies, all.

I had seen this homemade pipe organ a while back, but I didn't see the link for this much more elaborate model. Nor did i see the links for these other homemade projects. (moved from previous post)

They find the spots, so you don't haaave tooooo.....

The solution is so easy, even a defective yeti could find it.

Googletalk generates gibberish based on recursive Google results for a small set of words. If you're into random stuff like I am, you'll like it. A portion of my first sample:

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Sounds like a plan to me.