BBC NEWS | Africa | African clergy reject ‘gay’ funds Well, there had better be a trust set up for them somewhere, or divert it to charities.
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Dan Savage weighs in on his Salon column with Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | First they came for Howard …via onbeingunfunny
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Via AKMA’s Random Thoughts: Fools’ Errand, a new interactive virtual church experiment at Ship of Fools. With pews made from pixels, the congregation logging in from their home computers and the collection sent in by mobile phone, the world’s first 3D online church is going to be church like never before. The House of God is set to become the Mouse of God. Well, it sounds interesting, might be fun to log in and check it out when they get it running – it begins May 11th, but they’re still looking for funding.
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It’s time to stop screwing around with the machanics of the stupid blog and make some entries already. So soon there’ll be some more entries covering the week David and I spent hiking, eating, and drinking in Grassington, Yorkshire Dales. But first this cautionary tale. Do not go anywhere with dry toast in your pockets, or They will attack you from the sea and from the air. Who are They? The shadowy evil figures that haunt your dreams and turn them to nightmare. They are… the massive continuity of ducks!! Mu-ahahahahaha!! No, really, there are some really pretty canals in…
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blockquote { font-family: verdana, georgia, arial, color: #2F4F4F; font-size:small; font-style:italic; background: #F5F5F5; padding: 20px; border: 1px solid #999; } code { font-size:14px; font-weight:normal; color:#000; background: #F5F5F5; text-align:left; } .floatimgleft { float:left; margin-top:10px; margin-right:10px; margin-bottom:10px; padding:2px; border:3px #a9a9a9; } So… do I have the “code” macro working right now? And here is the stylesheet CSS if I do.
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Since working with a cat image seems to be traditional, I thought I’d use one of Stuey for this next exercise in CSS madness. I was trying to get this to work the other night, adapting one of several methods for adding drop shadows in CSS, but doing it “the MT way.” I may have to concede that such things will have to be done “as is” and learn not to rely on the MT “show me the HTML feature.” Now I’m trying it “by the book” as described at Alistapart.rather than applying the CSS class with class="floatimgleft" as an…
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Okay, let’s try this again:Air America Radio has the registration page up again, and it seems to be working now. Also, their Real Audio software seems to have been upgraded (yay!) and is more seamlessly integrated. In related news, the Majority Report website will soon be redesigned to add more features. But here again are the 6 Reasons You Should Register to be an AAR charter member: 1. John Ashcroft will know where to find you. 2. All our annoying pop-up ads are invisible. 3. Because they shut down the Dennis Kucinich dating chat room. 4. Our spam is vegetarian.…
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Happy Easter, Hurray Spring, and so on. It’s been a interesting weekend for a holiday. Easter for me was last night, because Holy Moly chooses to do all the Easter celebrating on the Saturday night Vigil service, and skips a Sunday morning service entirely. Every parish does things “the way it’s always been done;” our way takes the view that nobody wants to go to church late one night and early the next morning if they’ve got little kids (theoretically, at least, on the “if they’ve got little kids” score). Here’s how it’s done, according to the powers that be.…
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Hey, Kuri at Mediatinker.com is another member of the Redheaded Band. She had a makeover done at MAC in Japan. I wonder how their colors “suitable for redheads” stack up against the Just For Redheads ones? I had a makeover (or my colors analyzed) years ago (actually, two different times, in different towns) and the result was the same for both: I ended up with a very limited palette of colors to choose from, because my eye color and hair color are in different “seasons,” and was also told that I’d always have trouble finding foundation light enough for my…
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Consider: In Berkeley, an event featuring three authors whose bestselling books at least touch on the Bush presidency (generally critically) drew 3,600 people who paid $15 a ticket. The panel featured Al Franken, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman (“The Great Unraveling”) and former Republican strategist Kevin Phillips (“American Dynasty”). Proceeds went to KPFA-FM radio and Global Exchange, an international human-rights group. Tickets sold out immediately, said Bob Baldock, the station’s public-events producer and a former bookstore owner. “I think people are hungry for information,” he said. “They want the opinions, not just from hacks that go on television all…