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LOLCat Bible Translation Project Wiki:

Hai! Teh blessigs of teh Ceiling Cat b pwn u, lol! This is a new translation wiki to get the entire Bible translated into kitty pidgin (the language of lolcats). Zotnix saw a link to a picture with this done to Genesis and thought, “Why not the whole darned book?”

I can think of several reasons…. (and other people will think this is a reason).

(Image via PHP LOL Cats Generator)

Wikipedia on what is a LOL Cat, for those fortunate enough to have been spared.

Obligatory cite to pedantic analysis.

Icanhascheezburger.com.

WikipediaVision (beta). Anonymous edits to English Wikipedia (almost) in real-time.

Via Lifehacker, a link to Verify Email Address.

If, for whatever reason, you need to verify someone's email address, try Verify-Email.org, a free email address verifier. Just enter in the email addy, click “verify”,and go. The format, domain, and user are all checked by actually connecting to the mail server to see if everything is kopasetic. Somewhat disconcerting, but sure to come in handy in some way.

Seems the like email equivalent of pinging a web site to see if it's there. I guess we need this now that so many sites block finger.

Lifehacker is a funny site. So much of what they say strikes me as obvious or irrelevant to my life; but then there's that very useful 5-10%. Then again, maybe I should aspire to that signal-to-noise ratio…

Slashdot Turns 10 But You Get The Presents. Well, sorta.

Mostly, Slashdot is asking users to throw their own parties, with users from Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station – South Pole, AQ to University of Miami responding.

I hope they have beer.

Other notable venues:

• The Cavern at Vortex Spring (depth: 50-60 feet) – Ponce de Leon, FL, US

• Second Life – Hamnida – Hamnida – NCI , CA, US

Open Office 2.3, latest version, released this week.

Ventus by Karl Schroeder a novel, released under a Creative Commons license.

Edward N. Peters, an authority on canon law, states unequivocally on his blog that On-line confessions are absolutely null and utterly void. Even if there's a real priest on the line, he writes, “the confessions themselves are of absolutely zero sacramental value.”

Not to mention that you don't know who's on the other end of the line — and if it's someone pretending to be a priest then this could be the best blackmail wheeze since the cleartext-only anonymous remailer that secretly kept logs.

Why are modem-mediated confessions worthless? Apparently a key reason is Canons 960 & 961, although how they prove it is … I confess … lost on me. (I would get it if the reason were Canon 964.)

Let me, by the way, say that to this non-Catholic, Edward N. Peters's blog In the Light of the Law: a canon lawyer's blog on current issues makes very interesting reading. Often I'm following right along, whether or not I agree with the assumptions — lots of legal analysis has similar properties — and then every so often there's stuff that shows such a very different mindset and instincts from mine at work…

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