Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Some 200 mosques in Islam’s holiest city, Mecca, point the wrong way for prayers, reports from Saudi Arabia say.
All mosques have a niche showing the direction of the most sacred Islamic site, the Kaaba, an ancient cube-like building in Mecca’s Grand Mosque.
But people looking down from recently built high-rises in Mecca found the niches in many older mosques were not pointing directly towards the Kaaba.
Some worshippers are said to be anxious about the validity of their prayers.
There have been suggestions that laser beams could be used to make an exact measurement.
Yeah, y’know, I’m really not quite up to speed on this. Some worshippers are “said to be anxious”? Which worshippers are those? Wouldn’t this be fairly categorized as a medium-poor-at-best citation? As in, “some say 9/11 was an inside job” or “some say the moon is made out of cheese.”
Some people eat their own feces. You can find someone who thinks — anything you want to say someone thinks.
Isn’t there some kind of “It’s the thought that counts” thing going on? I noticed once, in my daily routine, there was a Muslim lady who seemed to be making a daily ritual out of praying North. Was that intentional? It could make sense if we’re on the other side of the world, and we, and Mecca, are both in the northern hemisphere. But how picky is this tradition supposed to be, anyway? There has to be a limit to it, because last I checked they hadn’t invented lasers in 632 AD.
Tawfik al-Sudairy, Islamic affairs ministry deputy secretary, downplayed the problem in remarks quoted by the pan-Arab newspaper al-Hayat.
“There are no major errors but corrections have been made for some old mosques, thanks to modern techniques,” he said.
“In any case, it does not affect the prayers.”
I see Dilbert, today, is making fun of the “executive stakeholder” who never answers his phone when the project manager comes calling. (I spent some of my technology years in project management…so this gave me reason to laugh my ass off.) The executive leaves a message on his answering machine, “I do not check e-mail or return phone calls. Like the horizon, I am more of a concept than a corporeal being.”
I think that applies to the angsty Islamic guy who’s frantically worried about his prayers being off by a few angular degrees. Like manna from heaven during those slow news days. But more a concept than a corporeal being.
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