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at my house. http://www.qwantz.com/index.pl?comic=307

I forgot how it all got started, but we pirates have been mightily fond of this song for a while, so when I saw this, I thought I should share it:

Contest: Remix “The Internationale”: “Cory Doctorow:
Maxx Klaxon sez, ‘Remixers of the world, unite! Maxx Klaxon has released the submixes for his song ‘Internationale 2000′ (based on the classic workers’ anthem ‘The Internationale’) under a Creative Commons license. Download the tracks, create your own remix, and submit it by July 31, and you could win a spot on the next Maxx Klaxon release!’”

So then I was trying to remember what had been said about it in the past, and found this in an old ship’s log:

“The Internationale–isn’t it the most wonderful song ever? You can find mp3’s of it fairly easily online. The great thing about commie songs is that the people responsible for recording them aren’t likely to hassle you about downloading them, since they largely don’t believe in property anyway.

“‘Arise, ye prisoners of starvation. . .’”

(Mostly British) Ways to express your crapulence

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1883481.stm

One Dessert, Many Flavors, Even Sweet - New York Times: “‘My menu, it is very modern, but at the same time, it’s a little bit historical,’ he said. ‘In the time of the Medicis — this I learned from the book from Madame Pinchiorri — there were no real courses, you could have dishes that were both sweet and savory.’

As he spoke, he vigorously whisked the pastry cream over a low flame, adding a spoonful of beige powder from an unmarked container.

‘This is the P.C.P., but if you can’t get it, at home you could use cornstarch,’ he said nonchalantly.

P.C.P.? Were narcotics in desserts historical, too? Or was that the modern part?

‘You know, the pastry cream powder,’ he went on with perfect seriousness. ‘It stabilizes the custard.’ On another burner, a pot of heavy cream with rosemary needles trembled. Mr. Falai turned off the heat and covered the pot with plastic wrap to trap the fragrant steam. Once the cream was infused with the herb, he strained it into a bowl of chopped chocolate for the rosemary milk chocolate sauce.”

Poll: 1/3 of Youths Can’t Find La. on Map - Yahoo! News: “Despite the wall-to-wall coverage of the damage from Hurricane Katrina, nearly one-third of young Americans recently polled couldn’t locate Louisiana on a map and nearly half were unable to identify Mississippi.

Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 fared even worse with foreign locations: six in 10 couldn’t find Iraq, according to a Roper poll conducted for National Geographic.”

It (was) Easter weekend - do you know where your Jesus is? Because we’re starting to get puzzled.  What was he doing for three days? And, if you want to get technical, since when is Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon three days anyway?

After a conversation this weekend, we realized that Protestants do lip service to the “he descended into hell” bit, but don’t discuss it much.  Looking for an easy answer just made things more difficult:

no he did not -  

  http://www.allaboutjesuschrist.org/jesus-in-hell-faq.htm

vague, semi-hell -

 http://www.gotquestions.org/did-Jesus-go-to-hell.html

 yep, in hell, and you’ll likely go there, too

 http://www.av1611.org/hell.html

and you gotta love this illustration.

Y’all have probably seen this before, but this video of Chris Bliss juggling to Abbey Road is definitely worth checking out if you haven’t. It amazes me when someone elevates something to an art, and it amazes me to think about the amount of time he spent practicing this and rehearsing it.