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Television station STV in Turkey – an outfit apparently specializing in religious programming – recently produced a movie or series episode or something about a father and son and the father dies and goes to Hell and the son gets to watch him burn in tortured agony.

Yeah, I’d probably be screaming too if I were locked in a deep blue chromakey room being chained-up by guys covered head to toe in Hulk-green nude suits!

To STV’s credit, the first part of the clip does do a decent job of portraying Hell… or at least the Hell that we saw in Michael Jai White’s Spawn movie back in 1997. Looks like the graphics were drawn with a Sega Saturn. Anyhoo after the clergy dude shows up, the After Effects guy apparently fell asleep at the switch…




That’s either really bass-ackwards, or STV was counting on everyone to ignore the scene ...

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I wonder if he can do a Sith neck-pinch.

During his press conference earlier today about the “sequester” mess, President Barack Obama said the following…

“I know that this has been some of the conventional wisdom that’s been floating around Washington: That somehow, even though most people agree that I’m being reasonable, that most people agree that I’m presenting a fair deal — the fact that they don’t take it, means that I should somehow do a Jedi mindmeld with these folks and convince them to do what’s right,” he said. “Well, they’re elected. We have a constitutional system of government.”

Errrr… Vulcans like Mr. Spock do the mind-meld. In the Star Trek franchise. Jedi don’t do mind-melds. And Jedi are only found in Star Wars.

‘Course, now that J.J. Abrams is directing the new Star Trek movies and at least Star Wars Episode VII, I suppose anything ...

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This evening I had the opportunity to do something that I’ve wanted to do for most of my life: attend the Christmas Eve Mass at a Roman Catholic Church.

I am very happy to report that it was as beautiful as I had long expected it to be. Although I am not Catholic, nonetheless I came away from the experience feeling that God had ministered to my spirit in a way that I have needed Him to these past few days especially.

That, and it was a pleasure to celebrate the birth of Christ with my Catholic brethren. Turns out that just about all the Christmas hymns were those that I had already grown up with 🙂

Here’s a photo I shot just before the Eucharist tonight at St. Veronica’s…


The church was packed solid! We had to sit in one of these three adjoining hallways that had been ...

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A police officer in Great Britain is weathering international ribbing after calling in for reinforcements to help with a potentially dangerous situation… that turned out to be nothing more than the light of the silvery moon!

From the story at The Inquisitr:

According to Independent Online News, the story was originally picked up by Police magazine, which brought the cop’s startling encounter with the moon to the masses. In the article, the officer in question didn’t realize his mistake until after he’d told his co-workers that he might require backup.

“While single-crewed on night duty in Worcestershire a PC called up his sergeant letting him know that he was going up into the Clent Hills to investigate a ‘suspicious bright light’ that he could see shining from the other side of the hills,” the magazine revealed. “The call was for safety reasons as he might need back-up once he

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Awright, let’s be clear about something: the navigator was not listening to his iPod while at his station. But he was in his cabin listening to his iPod when he was supposed to have been at his station. Which in some ways is indicative of plenty more that was wrong on this sub.

“iPranged a submarine” screams the The Sun in the United Kingdom (gotta love those wacky British headlines). It’s now come to light that the collision between the United States Navy’s nuclear submarine USS Hartford and the transport ship USS New Orleans in the Persian Gulf a year ago was caused by the Hartford’s navigational officer off on his own “revising for an exam” while listening to tunes from his iPod when he should have been uhhh… navigating.

But wait, that’s not all! Crewmen had also set up loudspeakers so that they could listen to music (presumably ...

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If you can’t hear the hair-rending going on right now at Epic Games’ studios in Cary not far away from here, I’d bet good money that Cliff Bleszinski’s Twitter feed is about to go pure apoplectic.

For more than a week Bleszinski – the creator of Epic’s Gears of War series – had been hinting heavily that his appearance on Jimmy Fallon’s show on NBC late night would herald the announcement of Gears of War 3. That was supposed to have been last night, but something got messed up behind the scenes and Bleszinski’s appearance was postponed.

Unfortunately nobody got around to telling the management of Microsoft’s Xbox Live service about it. Here’s what greeted Xbox 360 players this morning when their consoles logged in…

Personally, I’d be sweating bullets right now. I mean, it can’t possibly pay to honk off a man who’s wedded a chainsaw to ...

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No wonder it’s often called “Crackbook”: some folks are addicted to it! Consider one Jonathan G. Parker, age 19, of Fort Loudoun, Pennsylvania. Police in the town responded to a call from a home on August 28th in which the resident reported a breaking and entering, and the theft of two diamond rings valued at more than $3,500.

The cops didn’t have far to look for a suspect, however: Parker used the victim’s computer to log into his Facebook account and forgot to log out.

Jonathan Parker was arrested, and is currently in jail on $10,000 bond. He’s facing one to ten years in the slammer if convicted.

Dumb, dumb, dumb. But also very funny 🙂...

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From Turkey comes this awesome footage of a flour factory, built in 1928, being imploded. Or it was supposed to implode anyway. Instead the support on one side of the base was destroyed, causing the entire building to tumble over “like a toy house”.

Watch it below folks. This simply must be seen to be believed…

Look on the bright side: those wacky Turks have brought a whole new unprecedented scale to the old game of dominoes! 😛...

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Josh Muszynski of Manchester, New Hampshire went to the local convenience store and bought a pack of Camel cigarettes. He put the purchase on his debit card. And then when he got home found out that he had been charged more than TWENTY THREE QUADRILLION DOLLARS for his smokes.

Turns out to have been a programming error on the part of Visa, and apparently it’s hit a number of its cardholders. Visa and his bank quickly resolved the issue for Muszynski, and he was no longer stuck with a tab that was more than 2007 times the current national debt.

But hey, as bad as inflation is getting, it’s just a matter of time before all our purchases are this astronomical! 😛...

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