- Not to be outdone by the British releasing man-eating war badgers in Basra, the United States has upped the ante to stealth sharks in the Euphrates:
“Locals blamed the U.S. military for the shark’s presence.
Tahseen Ali, a teacher, said there was a “75 percent chance” Americans had put the shark in the water.
“This is very frightening for us. Our children always swim in the river and I believe that there are more sharks. I believe that America is behind this matter,” said fisherman Hatim Karim.”
This is a tactic I can really get behind. The propaganda potential alone is limitless:
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This is by far the ickiest Facebook group that I’ve seen in a long time: 10,000 Jesus DVDs. Did you know that:
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The Jesus Movie is the most-watched movie in history?
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That it’s been viewed 6 billion times since 1979?
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Roughly 200,000 people “chose Christ” after viewing it?
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That 200,000 people out of 6 billion is 0.003%?
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That probably only one out of the above four facts is probably true (hint: It’s the one with math in it!)
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The Superest is a very funny, very pretty site that pits two artists against each other in a contest: One must produce a superhero concept, the other must come up with one to outdo the first, and the first comes back to defeat it, ad infinitum. It started with The Un-Opposinator (”will win every battle provided there’s NO opposition”), and currently stands — through a very weird and enjoyable chain — with Fun Uncle Stu. The archives aren’t long, so now’s your chance to get aboard. (via Glark)
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Google announced their omni-internet social platform this week, called OpenSocial. After listening to a couple of guys on CBC Radio bust a nut over it last night, I find that it’s basically nothing more than an open API and a single sign-on through Google’s services. Great news, if I (or anyone I know) still had an Orkut ID or found 99% of the applications on Facebook remotely useful — as it stands, I think most people are just going stay where the people are, and where they can get a hold of them.
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Shortly after telling everyone that Dumbledore was gay, J.K. Rowling has released seven hand-written copies of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, which apparently has something to do with someone or whatever in the last Harry Potter book. I only take note of this because it’s kind of neat, particularly given that six of the seven were given to people confidentially, and the last will be auctioned off for a children’s charity. The stories will never be published.
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Finally, the most popular featured YouTube video of the day:
Comments (6)
The Tales of Beedle the Bard sounds like a fake name for a book. What’s the bet it gets published within the year, though?
Doesn’t the 10,000 Jesus DVDs Facebook group say that 200 million people–not 200,000–people have traced their conversion to Jesus Christ to their watching the Jesus film?
I’m pretty sure it said 200,000 when I decided to make fun of it, but it could have been wicked lies spun by the Deceiver.
Or my reading comprehension problem.
Inflicted by the Deceiver.
I vote on your reading comprehension problem, but I at least admire your guts for allowing my comment to go through. By the way, jesusfilm.org says 200 million.
Thanks!
You realize that to anyone else reading this exchange, one claim is about as accurate as any other, right?
Aaaaaaaaanyhoo.
Please inform the Jesus DVD FB group that it is now 199,999. I saw the movie in confirmation class when I was a teen, and I lied about the conversion because I was hungry and it was dinner time. Apologies for corruption of the data, and I will atone for my sin sometime after lunch.