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New Law Would Ban Marriages Between People Who Don’t Love Each Other.

“Marriage has legal implications as well. For instance, if one member of a loveless couple got sick, their spouse could no longer visit them in the hospital to bereate them about how much that medical bill is going to cost.”

From the Onion, via half my Facebook Friends list.

When people need to kick back, have fun, and party, I will be there, unlike your pathetic fonts. While Gotham is at the science fair, I’m banging the prom queen behind the woodshop. While Avenir is practicing the clarinet, I’m shredding “Reign In Blood” on my double-necked Stratocaster. While Univers is refilling his allergy prescriptions, I’m racing my tricked-out, nitrous-laden Honda Civic against Tokyo gangsters who’ll kill me if I don’t cross the finish line first. I am a sans serif Superman and my only kryptonite is pretentious buzzkills like you.

Via @grantbw.

ABC News talks with the man behind @BPGlobalPR

The coach shows Theo were third base is:

It is kind of funny how many of the kids just randomly run around the outfield. May 8, 2010

Lego Hello World (most immediately via @butwait)

Will It Blend has a different kind of app for the iPad.

As with documents, spreadsheets, and files, you also share objects you’ve uploaded to Google Docs with anyone in the world. For example, do you ever wish you could CTRL+F your house keys or your TV remote? Store your keys, remotes, rail passes, and other objects you commonly lose with Google Docs, and you’ll never have to worry about finding them again. Having trouble moving your piano from New York to California? Upload it from your home in New York, then download it once you’re in California. Change your mind and want to share it with your friend in England instead? No problem. With one click you can have your piano delivered to anyone you choose, anywhere in the world.

Text-only mode for Youtube.

Is that a Susquehanna Hat?!?! Sharing the classics with Theo

The lecturer at work:

This is Theo is lecture mode

The emerging church and mothering sites are what drew me initially into the blogosphere:  daily I would check for new Quakes or young adults crying out for more authentic living and worship (and new funny ‘here’s the many colors of poo of my child today’ stories:  when you’re sleep-deprived, they’re a hoot).   As blogging’s become more normalized, posts feels very mechanical, formulaic.  The topics are rehashed, and unless serious digging takes place, the grand sense is evangelical white males talking about oppression:  something’s a bit off in that scenario.

A funny piece about a newcomer’s train of thought during meeting for worship:

Oh great. I’m at a Quaker meeting without a watch. How am I going to keep up with the time? I’m not going to worry about the time at all. I’m going to sit here and meditate on God so that….Hey, there’s  squirrel outside the window. Look at him run along that branch. Do you think the Quakers feed the squirrels so they’ll have something to watch while they’re sitting here so quietly?

Cary Grant on LSD

New-to-me site, though I think I’ve stumbled on it before. Stephen Dotson was over today and recommended it. Below is part of it’s manifesto. Sounds like a useful outreach project. They seem to have a lot of funny taglines.

Killing the Buddha is a religion magazine for people made anxious by churches, people embarrassed to be caught in the “spirituality” section of a bookstore, people both hostile and drawn to talk of God. It is for people who somehow want to be religious, who want to know what it means to know the divine, but for good reasons are not and do not. If the religious have come to own religious discourse it is because they alone have had places where religious language could be spoken and understood. Now there is a forum for the supposedly non-religious to think and talk about what religion is, is not and might be. Killing the Buddha is it.

The new Apple iPad explained