Tah's phunnie:

Evangelism Linebacker - he'll bust yo' ass if you don' get evangelizin'. Thanks to Claudia, for the heads up.



And second, I stumbled upon this silly, silly Colbert piece: Stephen Colbert has a dreamsicle.

Found this through del.icio.us - it's a graphic showing the various probabilities of dying in different ways. Quite interesting, regardless of how completely factual or relevant it is. :)

The big (sad) surprise for me is that death by suicide is 1 in 119, which just strikes me as a LOT of people committing suicide. Odds of dying

It's moments like these I realize how much I enjoy the Internet! I just found out that I can buy my favorite album, Waterdeep's "Sink or Swim" for just $7.50 on their web site, downloading the MP3 files here at work AND at home. They have all their other albums for sale, too, so I'm going to have to check some of their newer stuff out. Waterdeep

Also, Derek Webb (formerly one of the songwriters and singers for Caedmon's Call) is giving away his album "Mockingbird" at FreeDerekWebb.com. It's pretty good, musically, but the lyrics are where the double punch comes in. Lyrics like:

Don't teach me about politics and government, just tell me who to vote for.
Don't teach me about truth and beauty, just label my music
...
Don't teach me about moderation and liberty, I prefer a shot of grape juice
I don't want to know if the answers aren't easy.
Just bring it down from the mountain to me.
I want a new law....I want a new law....I want a new law.

Internet Explorer 7 is out. (http://ie7.com) Better time than ever to download Firefox. ;-)

Here's one of the best optical-illusion-mess-with-your-eyes-animations I've ever seen: Strobe. Prepare to get trippy.

I'm really looking forward to my newest toy which I'm planning on getting in roughly a month, the Nintendo Wii (pronounced "we"). Its controller has a motion sensor in it which enables the console to know where in space the controller is, and at which angle. Kind of hard to explain, but really easy to understand when you watch these videos. Warning: These may cause you to want to buy a Wii yourself.

Fishing


Tennis


Boxing


Baseball


My family is coming for Christmas to our place, and by then I'll have 4 controllers. I'm REALLY looking forward to playing a round of doubles' tennis with my bros (and sis' of course), and a round of golf with my dad. :)

One of the strangest pieces of news this month was that Shaquille O'Neal was a part of a child porn raid team last month which ended up a disaster because they hit the wrong house, finding nothing. They ended up raiding the place of some poor family who had absolutely nothing to do with child porn. Shaq himself apparently is actually a sheriff in the off season. I'm serious - you can't make this stuff up.

Now, that has got to be the most surreal experience ever - the doorbell rings, you go and open it and look up and see Shaq in all his 7 ft 1 inch glory, behind him a troop of special police. And to top things off, he says in his deep voice, "We have a search warrant because you're suspected to be involved in a child porn ring." I mean, that would be a weird and surreal dream, but it actually happening is goes beyond simple weirdness. :)

Check out an article or simply Google "Shaq" on news.google.com.

Oh, and I just saw I got some linkage love from Ariel, which will probably cause my traffic to rise by a factor of about a hundred for a couple of days. To all of you one-time visitors, all I can say is: I had this stylish blog layout picked out before Ariel did. :D So there.

Vox has now opened up registration to anybody at all, which means you can now all sign up and post comments on my journal if you want! :)

Vox

The John Journal

[dull voice]Whoopeedoo.[/dull voice] :)

No, seriously, I really enjoy Vox especially because of its easy tagging of posts, something which Blogger is just now getting around to in their Beta.

This is a very awesome idea: You answer roughly 30 questions with "agree / disagree" and then it shows you the varying "contradictions" or "tensions" that exist in your beliefs.

Philosophical Health Check.

I got a tension quotient of 27%, which apparently is pretty much average.

One of my "tensions" is the classic one:

You agreed that:

There exists an all-powerful, loving and good God

And also that:
To allow an innocent child to suffer needlessly when one could easily prevent it is morally reprehensible

These two beliefs together generate what is known as 'The Problem of Evil'. (...)