INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL soundtrack CD cover and track listing revealed

If the reveal of the artwork and track listing for a new Indiana Jones score composed and conducted by John Williams is not occasion enough to merit a post, then I don't know what is. Here's the CD's cover...And courtesy of Amazon...1. Raiders March2. Call of the Crystal3. The Adventures of Mutt4. Irina's Theme5. The Snake Pit6. The Spell of the Skull7. A Whirl Through Academe8....

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podBible makes the Word of God just a thumbclick away

A few weeks ago while visiting a church this crazy idea struck: put the Bible on an iPod! I'm not talking about MP3s of spoken passages from the scriptures. You can find those all over the place. What I wanted to know is: was there any software that puts the text of the Bible itself on an iPod, that can be taken with you and read anywhere?It took awhile but last night I...

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"Partners in Crime" best season premiere yet of new DOCTOR WHO

"Don't you ever change?!""Just like old times!""That's him! That's him! YEEEEEHAAAAA!! That's him!"I didn't get to see much of Season 3 (or Season 29, depending on how we're counting it) of Doctor Who, apart from its premiere episode, and the ending triptych of episodes that saw the return of the Master. Catching-up is on my short list of things to do, especially the three-part...

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Time for a fresh look

It was about a year ago that I re-did the design of this blog. And it's one that I've grown rather fond of. But all the same, I'm feeling like changing some things with it.So I'm going to be "tweaking" the look of it some during the next few days and weeks. The changes might be negligible. And then again this whole place might get a complete overhaul. Anyhoo, as always whenever this happens, if something seems out-of-whack or off-kilter around...

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LOST, for what it's worth

A two-minute long recap of Lost seasons 1 through 3, using only one word...Thanks to Phillip Arthur for finding this hilarious vid...

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Taxpayer-funded segregation? Indianapolis airport to give Muslims their own sinks

Indianapolis International Airport is going to install floor sinks by this fall - at the cost of $750 each - for Muslims to wash their feet before praying.There is certainly a question here about the constitutionality of such a thing. I mean, these are public funds that are being used to support an establishment of religion: a notion that some people in this country have spent their entire lives toward stamping out, sometimes with dedication bordering...

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Fred Reed exposes hypocrisy regarding illegals

In his latest column, Fred Reed mocks the American government's schizo policy toward illegal immigration, in his own perverse style...To grasp American immigration policy, to the extent that it can be grasped, one need only remember that the United States forbids smoking while subsidizing tobacco growers.We say to impoverished Mexicans, "See this river? Don't cross it. If you do, we'll give you good jobs, a drivers license, citizenship for your kids...

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The one blogger who'll defend Uwe Boll

Are people really this hostile toward their fellow man, without caring about how cruel they are?Please don't answer that, 'kay?So earlier this evening I read about filmmaker Uwe Boll, director of House of the Dead, BloodRayne, Dungeon Siege and other movies that have endured lackluster performance at the box office. Boll has said that in light of how ill-received his work...

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Congrats to Kansas: 2008 NCAA Men's Basketball Champs!

Mario Chalmers (now and forever a Kansas folk hero after his 3-pointer that sent the game into overtime) and Darrell Arthur of the Jayhawks have their one shining moment...Kansas 75, Memphis 68 in overtime. That was the most thrilling and pure crazy NCAA Men's Basketball Championship I've seen in a way long time! Kudos to Bill Self and his team on a spectacular win.Congrats...

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Christian radio attacks harmless student dress-up day

Wasn't there an episode of King of the Hill about this?An elementary school in Wisconsin is under fire by a Christian radio network - the head of which seems to have nothing better to do with his time - because it hosted an event that encouraged students to dress as members of the opposite gender.As part of Wacky Week at Pineview Elementary in Reedsburg, students were encouraged...

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College student builds working half-sized Panzer tank

As clever as Erwin Rommel was, I can't remember him ever pulling off what Will Foster of Flint, Michigan has done: build a working Panzer tank (albeit one-half sized) from scratch...The Kettering University engineering student's mini-Panzer can go up to 20 miles per hour with its three-cylinder diesel engine, is quite maneuverable and the turret can rotate 360 degrees to fire...

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More Star Wars in education: English teacher uses Original Trilogy to instruct about epic literature

A high school English teacher and football coach in Alabama is using the first three Star Wars movies in his classroom to teach students about the aspects of epic literature.Luke Skywalker is not just a character in a series of films to David Golden, an English teacher and football coach at Hazel Green High School. The Jedi knight is an epic hero, whose rise, fall and redemption are part of a story rife with classic archetypes we all know through...

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Who else is watching JOHN ADAMS on HBO???

DAMN if this ain't one of the best things done for television in a long time!I've been watching it since the first part a few weeks ago and have become absolutely hooked! John Adams is based on David McCullough's biography of the second President of the United States, played in the series by Paul Giamatti. Part 1 began the story on the night of the Boston Massacre in 1763,...

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Pregnant man story: "Meh..."

"Hey Chris, did you hear about the pregnant...""Yes I have!"So it's gone for the past several days, ever since the story came out about Thomas Beatie, the Oregon man who is now pregnant and showed his ultrasound images on Oprah Winfrey's show to prove that it's no hoax.Yeah well, I don't see what the big deal about this is.The thing is, Beatie may be pregnant but I'm not convinced that he's a "man" in any sense at all. Born Tracy Lagondino, "Thomas...

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Kansas/UNC: The Aftermath

A longtime friend was banned for life from a sports restaurant last night after breaking-bad on UNC-Chapel Hill, which lost bigtime against Kansas in the semifinal of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. The Jayhawks won 84 to 66. Not once did Carolina take the lead, and at one time they were down by 28 points. Apparently my friend could not contain his relish at the Tarheels going down so hard.Another friend is reportedly going to burn his "lucky...

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MEETING DAVID WILSON: Local man figures big in documentary about slavery's legacy

This coming Friday night, on April 11th, MSNBC will be premiering the new documentary Meeting David Wilson. It was written and directed by David A. Wilson, a black journalist from New Jersey who took time off from his career to research his family's history. His quest eventually led him to the plantation in Caswell County, North Carolina where his great-great grandfather...

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Charlton Heston has passed away

When they were filming The Ten Commandments, it came time to shoot the scene where God speaks to Moses through the burning bush. Remember how God told Moses to remove his sandals, because the ground he was standing on was holy? When they were about to film Moses returning back from the encounter, Charlton Heston told director Cecil B. De Mille "You know, if someone was told...

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