The religious right dance in NYC
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Virtually every religious faction is
laying claim to the Bill Murray classic
as a relevant religious allegory
Virtually every religious faction is
laying claim to the Bill Murray classic
as a relevant religious allegory
12/08/2003 09:16 AMOne film unites all religions .. Groundhog Almighty .. New York
Times
nytimes.com/2003/12/07/fashion/07HOG.html
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Let Her Dance, Let Her Dance, Ket Her
Dance All Night Long....
Let Her Dance, Let Her Dance, Ket Her
Dance All Night Long....
05/07/2004 11:27 PM
Bobby
Fuller<
/a> was a Texas based rock and roll singer best known for the immortal
rebel anthem "I
Fought The Law,". Considered by many to be the heir to
Buddy Holly as the king of Texas Rock, he built on Holly's style with
songs like the aforementioned "...Law,"
"Jenny Lee," "Love's Made A Fool Of
You," and the 2 1/2 minute masterpiece "Let Her
Dance." And then it ended,
at age
22, in very
weird circumstances. Over the years, interest in Fuller and his work
has ebbed and flowed, and plenty of
archival material surfaced, but the mystery of his death
remains unsolved, although many have
speculated. Ann odd end for a footnote character in rick history, but who was
bound for more
"The Religious Policeman: ?A Saudi man?s
diary of life in the ?Magic Kingdom?,
where the Religious Police ensure that
everything remains as it was in the
Middle Ages?"
"The Religious Policeman: ?A Saudi man?s
diary of life in the ?Magic Kingdom?,
where the Religious Police ensure that
everything remains as it was in the
Middle Ages?"
04/21/2004 03:41 PMHealth insurers to fat kids: Go play
Dance Dance Revolution
Health insurers to fat kids: Go play
Dance Dance Revolution
04/04/2005 01:18 PMCory Doctorow:
American health insurers are working with obesity researchers to
encourage children to play Dance Dance Revolution on home consoles
with dance-mats as a way of reversing childhood obesity and the
concomitant health costs later in life.
Jones is one of 85 children in an at-home study trying the popular
Dance Dance Revolution video game to boost their activity. The study
is being done by West Virginia's public employees insurance group in
hopes it will lead to better health and lower costs.
Jones lost about 10 pounds by changing his diet. Now, after two weeks
playing the game, he has lost another 10.
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Kickass Kung Fu: Like Dance Dance
Revolution for martial artists
Kickass Kung Fu: Like Dance Dance
Revolution for martial artists
06/24/2005 06:25 PMCory Doctorow:
Kickass Kung Fu is a video-game in which you use real martial-arts
moves to control an on-screen kung-fu fighter in order to best both
human and AI opponents.
The game takes place on a 5 meter cushioned playfield suitable for
martial arts and acrobatics training. Using custom computer vision
technology, you are taken inside an artificial reality where the
normal laws of physics no longer apply. Your movements are exaggerated
so that you can easily dodge your opponent's bullets by jumping five
meters in the air and landing behind his back. Using the dual
projected screens, one at each end of the playfield, you can also
continue by counter-attacking your stupefied enemy from the behind.
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Play Dance Dance Revolution... Save On
Insurance
Play Dance Dance Revolution... Save On
Insurance
04/04/2005 01:54 PMThere have been discussions over the past few years about the problem
of childhood obesity and how
video
games that force kids to be active may be at least part of the
solution. While going outside and doing something is probably better,
if they must be staring at a screen, they might as well be active
about it. It appears that one insurance company has decided to test
this out and is
running a study by giving Dance, Dance Revolution to kids
in an effort to make them lose some weight. While others have noted
the aerobic nature of the game (and the game apparently has a calorie
burning counter as an option), this appears to be the first insurance
company promoting the game. Next thing you know, your car insurance
rates will rise if you play Grand Theft Auto...
Life on the pro Dance Dance Revolution
circuit
Life on the pro Dance Dance Revolution
circuit
01/25/2004 04:09 AMYoz has posted a great account of his encounter with a touring clade
of pan-European Dance Dance Revolution obsessives:
"We're a group of DDR players in Norway." Do they play other bemani
games? "No, just DDR." He points to the guy he was playing with, now
off the machine and chatting to his girlfriend. "He's from Sweden, he
has a DDR group there too." The machine is now in the control of the
third chap, a large-ish bloke with shoulder-length hair. "He has a
group in France, but they play all kinds of music games." Do you guys
play competitively? "Sometimes... like tomorrow. It's why we're all
here - there's a big contest at the Namco arcade in Westminster.
There'll be players from four different countries. It's pretty big."
LinkDJ Format meets Dance Dance Revolution
DJ Format meets Dance Dance Revolution
04/03/2005 07:50 PM
DJ Format
meets Dance Dance Revolution Director Keith Schofield turns out a
blazing video for British DJ Format and his top notch crew of pasty
Canadian rappers, turning their song "3 Feet Deep" into a
high adrenaline arcade hi-score smashing rampage.
Dance Dance Revolution as teen
weightloss aid
Dance Dance Revolution as teen
weightloss aid
05/24/2004 06:59 PMThis CNN piece follows the tales of formerly supersized boy and girl
geeks who shed *lots* of unwanted weight playing the wacky Japanese
electronic game "Dance Dance Revolution." In DDR, players stomp around
on a grid of brightly lit squares while hyperfast techno music blares
at them from a video display unit. There's also a home version, which
sells for under US$50.
As she cooled herself in front of a fan at a video arcade, two teenage
boys danced on a machine nearby. Their sneakers pounded out a staccato
rhythm at a pace so fast that "Lord of the Dance"'s Michael Flatley
would be envious.
Not everyone sees dramatic results. Seventeen-year-old Justin Meeks
says his body is more toned, but his weight hasn't changed. He's
pleased to point out, though, that his dancing skills have helped him
get girls. "Two. I'm guilty of that," Justin said with a grin as he
watched friends play DDR.
LinkDance, White Boy, Dance (glumbert.com)
Dance, White Boy, Dance (glumbert.com)
04/08/2005 05:05 AMborn
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Dance Dance Resurrection
Dance Dance Resurrection
05/28/2004 04:51 PM
Jesus-themed variant of DDR (shut up, don't go pointing me to snopes
-- of *course* it's a hoax).
Link; other
recent BoingBoing posts on DDR
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2,
3. (
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Dance dance revolution
Dance dance revolution
10/28/2003 11:07 PM
Holy cow!! They just had the guy from the Kollaboration 2000 talent
contest perform in between talks. Fucking amazing.
Dance Voldo Dance
Dance Voldo Dance
07/18/2004 03:34 PM
Dance, Voldo,
Dance (embedded quicktime .mov) Two people controlling two Voldos
(the #1 freak from Soul Caliber). Quite possibly the most amazing
synchronized video game dancing you'll ever see.
Dance, familiar. Dance...
Dance, familiar. Dance...
12/11/2003 02:34 PM
An interesting line about the selves manufactured by spies (that
seems to me to have currency for all people who have cause to
narrativise their lives in one way or another) from John Le
Carré's rather blandly-titled (but also rather good) new novel
Absolute
Friends:
But who is Mundy Three, when Mundys One and Two have gone
to bed? Who is this third person who is neither one of the other two,
who lies awake while they sleep, and listens for the chimes of country
bells he doesn't hear? He is the silent spectator. he is the one
member of the audience who doesn't applaud the performances of his two
familiars. He is made up of all the odd bits of his life that are left
over after he has given the rest away.
"No Sex Please, We're Religious "
"No Sex Please, We're Religious "
05/22/2004 03:49 AMYet Another Religious War
Yet Another Religious War
04/08/2005 04:59 AMCool, yet another Mac-verus-PC religious war is breaking out, this
time over the behavior of Finder/Explorer in rep
lacing/merging folders.
Religious
Religious
04/15/2005 10:02 AMTranslating to English
UK ban on religious jokes
UK ban on religious jokes
06/22/2005 02:20 AMIndependant: "As MPs vote on whether to go ahead with a Bill that
could outlaw religious jokes, we celebrate comedy's...
The Religious Policeman
The Religious Policeman
04/20/2004 03:19 PMThe Religious Policeman (Saudi!) .. written from inside Saudi
Arabia
muttawa.blogspot.com
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Religious coverage
Religious coverage
07/17/2004 12:51 PMJay Rosen: Puzzling through the convention story, because I'm heading
right for it, made me to realize that journalism's contempt for
ritual—and if "contempt" is too strong, then the difficulty the
press has in understanding the conventions as ritual—was deeply
involved here. Ritual is newsless; therefore it must be meaningless.
But is that really true? And that's what leads me to the forum now
happening at The Revealer ... If a religion writer covered the
presidential campaign, would campaign coverage be any different? My
reasons for asking this months ago, when we started planning the
forum, were vague. Now they're...
Religious Liberty
Religious Liberty
05/13/2004 09:25 PMThe Alliance Defense Fund, which describes itself as a legal alliance
of more than 700 attorneys defending religious liberty, announced
Thursday it has filed a lawsuit against the city of San Jose and Mayor
Ron Gonzales in an effort to...
American religious experience
American religious experience
12/30/2003 02:57 PMWhat the hell happened .. "The National Creed." .. David Brooks notes
.. op-ed page
nytimes.com/2003/12/30/opinion/30BROO.html
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Avenging angel of the religious right
Avenging angel of the religious right
01/07/2004 05:36 PMQuirky millionaire Howard Ahmanson Jr. is on a mission from God to
stop gay marriage, fight evolution, defeat "liberal" churches -- and
reelect George W. Bush.
Religious Man Wants to Rename Mt. Diablo
(AP)
Religious Man Wants to Rename Mt. Diablo
(AP)
04/14/2005 03:55 PMAP - An Oakley man has asked the federal government to rename Mount
Diablo, saying the current name, which means devil in Spanish, is
offensive to his religious sensibilities.
"American religious experience"
"American religious experience"
12/31/2003 09:35 AMNovell gets religious about Linux
Novell gets religious about Linux
04/09/2004 04:02 PMBob Mims, business writer for the "Salt Lake Tribune," called it
"Brother Jack's Operating System Salvation Show," likening this year's
BrainShare to an old-time revival tent meeting with Jack Messman
calling out the hallelujahs for the Linux operating system and open
source software.
Life Everlasting-the religious right and
the right to die
Life Everlasting-the religious right and
the right to die
03/29/2005 08:54 AM
Does the
right to life trump the right to die? In an increasingly
hysterical debate surrounding Terry Schiavo, Garret Keizer provides a
thought-provoking analysis of who should decide when and how a person
dies:
"The alarms raised in America’s ongoing right-to-die debate
have always been characterized by a curious selectivity. You will
notice, for example, how the fear of playing God operates exclusively
on one side of the medical playground. Thus to help a patient end his
or her life “prematurely” is playing God, while extending it in
ways and under conditions that no God lacking horns and a cloven hoof
could ever have intended is the mandate of “our Judeo-Christian
heritage” and the Hippocratic oath."
Airborne Religious Experience
Airborne Religious Experience
03/06/2004 01:55 AMJames Derk writes in the Evansville Courier & Press, I travel a lot
and I have to say that an iPod full of tunes and Bose Quiet Comfort 2
noise-canceling headphones on my head is as close to a religious
experience I have ever had in an aircraft. [Mar 1]
Non-religious RE lessons idea
Non-religious RE lessons idea
02/14/2004 08:03 PMReligious education in England should include discussion of
non-religious beliefs, a think tank suggests.
Sharon looks to religious parties
Sharon looks to religious parties
07/13/2004 08:50 AMIsraeli PM Ariel Sharon reportedly asks two religious parties to
discuss joining his coalition.
Stand collapses at religious show
Stand collapses at religious show
08/29/2004 04:28 PMThree people trapped after seating collapsed at a Christian festival
near Lincoln are freed by rescuers.
New religious hate laws planned
New religious hate laws planned
07/07/2004 12:55 AMThe government is due to announce another attempt at introducing a new
law against inciting religious hatred.
Religious Gadget Thursday: The E-Meter
Religious Gadget Thursday: The E-Meter
06/24/2005 04:02 PM
Over a ball-breaking glass of Fantome
Brise-Bonbons at Blind
Tiger last night, I made a stunning revelation: I'm totally
entranced by this Tom
Cruise and Katie Holmes experiment. It has everything I
could ever want from a news story: Potential
brainwashing, aliens, ninjas (well, Tom was a samurai once, which
is like a ninja with a bamboo fetish), and gadgets. One in
particular: the 'e-meter,' or 'Electro-psychometer,' a "pastoral
counseling device" used by the Church of Scientology to detect, among
other things, the emotional state and
thoughts of those attached to the device.
The original device was developed by Volney Mathison, a
chiropractor, as an aid
to psychotherapy, ironic considering the vehemence held by
Scientologists against conventional
psychiatric therapy. At heart, the e-Meters are based on the
simple circuitry of the Wh
eatstone Bridge, which measures resistance to current passed
through a human body (or anything else that can be connected to the
'can' electrode probes, including vegetables). Scientology founder and
principal prophet L. Ron Hubbard introduced the original e-meter in
the '50s [pictured above], leading up to the 'Mark V,' which was the
e-Meter of choice for the religion until the 'Mark VI' was released in
the 80s, powered by an Intel 8051 microprocessor.
Find out more about the only electronic gadget that is also an
official 'rel
igious artifact' after the jump.
The Mark V was not the very first e-Meter, but certainly
enjoyed a long period of use. These models may still be found and
purchased for a relatively inexpensive $200 or so, although to be used
in official Church procedures, must undergo a yearly $150 certification
process. E-Meters previous to the Mark V had been
seized by the FDA.
Developed in 1979, the Mark VI was the first major upgrade
since the Mark V and was in use heavily, despite occasional technical
inadequacies that caused some machines to break down. This e-Meter has
a built-in clock.
The
Super VII, developed in the late 80s, was reported to be much more
reliable than the Mark VII, and featured the 'technical' precision to
perform 'upper level auditing.' These units are no longer produced by
Hubbard's Church, but can be found occasionally on eBay for between
$300 and $900. Like all in-service e-meters, the Super VII must be
sent in for an annual certification.
The Cadillac of current official offerings, the Quantum Super
VII is the ultimate in e-meter artifacts, priced at over $4,500 new.
From e-meter.org.uk's
Quantum Super VII page, which may or may not be an official outlet of
the Church: "Using the meter, the auditor ensures the process covers
the correct area in order to discharge the harmful energy connected
with that portion of the preclear’s reactive mind. When charge
lessens, the person heightens his ability to think clearly in the area
being addressed and his survival potential increases proportionately.
As a result, the preclear discovers things about himself and his life
– new realizations about existence, the milestones that mark
his gains."
Since the design of the e-meter itself is relatively simple from an
electronic standpoint, many third-party manufacturers have built
generic models, including models that connect to PCs or PDAs for
statistics monitoring and tracking. If you'd like to get more details
about the variety of e-meters and e-meter clones available, check out
Clearbird's fantasticly comprehensive All Meters: The E-Meter
Supersite. For more information about the e-Meter's history and
use, the Secrets of
Scientology page by David S. Touretzky is equally thorough. The
Church's official site is here.
And yes, this is probably the last 'Religious Gadget Thursday,'
since, well, that's it.
Religious pray for quake victims
Religious pray for quake victims
01/02/2005 06:13 AMScotland's faith communities will gather to pray for the victims of
the Indian Ocean tsunami.
Religious Americans look on the Internet
for answers
Religious Americans look on the Internet
for answers
05/25/2004 02:49 PMChicago Tribune May 25 2004 7:21PM GMT
Religious hate law revolt fails
Religious hate law revolt fails
06/22/2005 01:59 AMThe government survives a backbench revolt over plans for a law to ban
the incitement to religious hatred.
Nigeria religious strife kills 67
Nigeria religious strife kills 67
05/03/2004 03:04 PMAt least 67 bodies have been recovered after clashes between
Christians and Muslims in Nigeria, police say.
Kitschy religious items for Xmas
Kitschy religious items for Xmas
12/07/2003 06:05 AM
The 12 Days of Kitschmas is a gallery of twelve utterly tasteless (and
apparently sincere and unironic) items of religious paraphenalia.
Don't miss the five-inch-nail-Xmas-ornament, a $8.99 remembrance of
the crucifiction for your tree.
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via Making
Light)
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