The birds have vanished into the sky...

Okay, after a short aborted hiatus, here goes:

Intelligent Life

This comes via Xenophilia (True Strange Stuff)- Alien Landscapes on Earth:



There is talk of the Moon Landing that happened a long time back- and what I found interesting is this:

“In the radio blackout, I opened the little plastic packages which contained the bread and the wine. I poured the wine into the chalice our church had given me. In the one-sixth gravity of the moon, the wine slowly curled and gracefully came up the side of the cup. Then I read the Scripture, ‘I am the vine, you are the branches. Whosoever abides in me will bring forth much fruit.’ I had intended to read my communion passage back to earth, but at the last minute Deke Slayton had requested that I not do this."
-Buzz Aldrin quoted at "First Communion on the Moon', Liturgy

Aldrin notes, "It was interesting for me to think: the very first liquid ever poured on the moon, and the very first food eaten there, were the communion elements."

Dumb Life

(There are 137 items tagged as Dumb in my Reader, waiting to be shared in this blog. How I will do this, I don't know. Will try, however.)

May be you think I should have included Buzz Aldrin here- not.

For yoga buffs, this is dumb: 9GAG



But I find this clever.

If getting drunk is a fine way of doing yoga, then may be, farting counts as music?- NCBI ROFL flatufonia:

"The art of the musical anus is reviewed in the light of its most prominent performers and of anorectal physiological aspects related to this specific musical performance."

This gets bizarre by the day: Sanford (remember him?- Sanford Cup) is blessed with faithful women, women, is that plural?- News Yahoo!

Most men would not want to be in a room with their estranged wife, current girlfriend and two former mistresses, but Allen Stanford is not most men.
The women, who have enjoyed million-dollar homes and luxury lifestyles, appear united in their loyalty to the Texas financier who faces criminal charges for an alleged $7 billion (4.2 billion pound) Ponzi scheme.
...They are committed to "fighting Mr. Stanford's battle together," DeGuerin wrote in a recent court filing.

You would think this is from Iran or something, but this progressive legislation comes from... - "Ireland Criminalizes Blasphemy" from Slashdot

Aside from a 25,000 fine (reduced from the 100,000 originally sought by the government), the new Defamation Act gives the authorities the power to stage raids on publishers: the courts may now issue a warrant authorising the police to enter, using "reasonable force," premises where they have grounds for believing there are copies of "blasphemous statements."

Law is an ass, you would have heard- but what an ass!- "Father arrested and held in cells for playing football in park with his children without council permission"- Mail Online

A father was arrested and held in a cell for five hours for playing football with his children in a park without permission from the council.
Darren Chapman, 42, was taken into custody after the family game, which was in defiance of town hall orders.
Council rules state that players must undergo a criminal records check, pay for insurance and apply for formal permission for the game.

But, okay, this kind of law will never come into effect in Ireland: "Muslim woman to be flogged for drinking beer in nightclub"- Mail Online

Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno was sentenced yesterday to six lashes and a fine of 5,000 ringgit ($1,400) for consuming alcohol, said a Shariah High Court official who declined to be identified because he was not authorised to make public statements.
Shukarno, a 32-year-old model, pleaded guilty in the court ineastern Pahang state to a charge of drinking beer when Islamicauthorities raided a hotel nightclub in August 2008.

Clever Stuff:

via SO TOTALLY FUCKING DISGUSTING

This is uncharacteristically mishmashic, so to put an end to this, we claim- We are What we are, and proffer this:

The birds have vanished into the sky, And now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, Until only the mountain remains. - Li T'ai-po (701-)
-Daily Zen

Sorry, I should do better: overwhelmed with Reader, to tell you the truth.

Be Happy.