ABC Radio National: The Ark 2 May 2004 – God’s Wife The belief in only one God was a long time coming among the ancient Israelites. Originally God had a wife and her name was Asherah. Biblical archaeologist, Diana Edelman tells the story of “Mrs God” and why she was banished from the Temple.
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Screenvader
check this out…I like it. cd Screenvader
Bizarre Hexagon Spotted on Saturn
One of the most bizarre weather patterns known has been photographed at Saturn, where astronomers have spotted a huge, six-sided feature circling the north pole. Rather than the normally sinuous cloud structures seen on all planets that have atmospheres, this thing is a hexagon. The honeycomb-like feature has been seen before. NASA’s Voyager 1 and…
Reassemblage
Another assignment, this one might be interesting if you can read it with the right ‘voice’, hopefully I’ve got that right. The artwork is from Orlanda Uffre Deconstructing the Mind’s Preconceptions by Chris Damitio What Do You SEE???? This is the question that is asked in the Trinh T. Minh-ha experimental documentary Reassemblage. On the…
Improv Everywhere Mission: No Pants 2k7
Improv Everywhere is a group of people that get together and do odd psychological mass psychology pranks…they have multiple missions such as slow motion at Home Depot and cell phones in the library…that you can watch on youtube or at their website. I love this stuff…(thanks Conrad!) cd Improv Everywhere Mission: No Pants 2k7 Our…
'Hepburn dress' school opens up
Wow. This is great, but what a crazy world we live in where one dress equals fifteen schools…. The first of more than a dozen schools to be built with the cash earned from the sale of Audrey Hepburn’s iconic black dress has opened in India.The Givenchy dress, made specifically for Hepburn’s role in the…
BBC – Science & Nature – Horizon – Parallel Universes
BBC – Science & Nature – Horizon – Parallel Universes Everything you’re about to read here seems impossible and insane, beyond science fiction. Yet it’s all true.Scientists now believe there may really be a parallel universe – in fact, there may be an infinite number of parallel universes, and we just happen to live in…
Egyptian queen Cleopatra was no stunner, coin shows
You might not want to compare your girls beauty to Cleopatra….Happy VD. cd LONDON (AFP) – When Shakespeare wrote that the face of Cleopatra, the ancient queen of Egypt, “beggar’d all description”, he meant that words could not sum up her beauty. click hereBut a coin dating from 32BC and put on display in Britain…
dirt peddler
I’ve been looking for something to smut my life up since Sploid stopped being my friend…maybe I’ve found it…(note to the gullible…don’t believe everything you read) cd dirt peddler The post-modern un-darling-king of the gaming industry, Rockstar Games is turning up the heat on itself again. With the groundbreaking GTA series, San Andreas and Bully…
Awesome Rumsfeld Video
This shows the real Donald Rumsfeld…(Thanks Steve!) if you haven’t seen this…have a look now. cd http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDC_rlCe1VU