Bogosity

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. – Jacques Deval, writer and director (1895 – 1972)

A friend of mine has a mailing list which he uses to regail me and a bunch of others with his writing experiments and thoughts on life – like a direct delivery blog (actually this is what people did before they had blogs). Anyway here’s something that I thought was amusing.

True Blue Aussie Values [...]

This is completely off-topic for me but as I caught this ferry every day for the last couple of years it is kind of religious.

Paying tribute to the ferry man – UQ News Online – The University of Queensland

The Dutton Park Ferry Service may have begun life as a result of student prank but it [...]

A friend at work was checking out this website (we were looking at some other crazy techo-art projects on here) and I found this.

Gestalten mit digitalen Medien

The assignment of this semester is to research an object (or a piece of clothing, installation or environment) from one of the world religions and translate it [...]

This is good Wikipedia – Funny Words. I got it from Andrew’s blog.

summer’s ending

On another topic – here’s an interesting widipedia article on funny words. Apparently words like underpants (and simply pants), duck, megaphone, weasel, spleen and the ‘Wankel rotary engine’ are inherently funny… if you’re not laughing now as you read this, there’s [...]

I’ve just watched Today Tonight showing parts of a DVD made by a group of teenage boys which consists of footage taken on their phones and cameras of them assulting (in all possible ways) a girl from their school.

Last night in our theology lecture we were talking about human depravity and Karl Rahner’s observation that [...]

Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle. – Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948)