In Honor of that, and having fresh lemons, I made a Pie.

I followed the directions in the Better Homes & Gardens Cookbook (the checkerboard one) for the Crust, Pie & Merengue.

Phil Johnson, of Pyromaniacs and the Spurgeon Archive, showed how Titus 2:7-8 thoroughly denounces the type of contextualization infiltrating modern evangelicalism, and compared such disregard for the authority, holiness, and effectuality of God’s Inspired Word to one of the worst punishible offenses of the Bible. I’d sure never want to expose our youth to that.

Give it a listen. (Posted here because one of Phil’s cohorts at pyro asked for it, and my bandwidth here is unlimited)

Once again, China does their censorship disappearing act. Last week, China blocked access to iTunes because olympians were downloading the Songs for Tibet (iTunes link) tribute album in defyance of China’s iron-fist internet censorship. I’ve had a chance to check out the remix of Hide and Seek, and it sounds pretty good. It definitely has an eastern motif to it. Well now China has figured out a way to simply block access to the one album without having to block the entire store. Wonderful.

It seems as though nothing will stop the determined China from protecting its citizens from the truths. If only this sort of vigor could be harnessed and put to use for true good!

Here’s the track Hide and Seek 2

Not that I have any hope of it coming to fruition, but the IOC has launched an investigation into chinese gold-medal gymnast He Kexin’s age. The main reason I dont think anything will happen, is because people are afraid of China. If their government would indeed go as far as falsifying internationally recognized documents for something as petty as an olympic medal and national sports pride (they certainly did it with the photoshopped firework display), how far would they go to maintain their lie? I’m willing to wager they’d go further than its worth.

You can also read more on the subject at Stryde Hax.

After having 07:07:07 07/07/07, 06, 05, etc. you wouldnt think this one would be very special, would you?

Well, for one, the olympics finally start! The significance is, the number 8 is considered lucky in Chinese culture (?).

Well, in any case, happy 8’s!

Agreeing to a software producer’s EULA, that long scrolling text of legalese they flash past you as you try to install their software or open the package, often limits your rights to the very software you’ve purchased. Apparently, they can put just about anything they want into the EULA, including downgrading your “ownership” of the software to just a “license” to install and use (usually on one computer at a time).

This apparently meaningless shift in terminology actually eliminates your rights under the copyright act which normally provide you with the ability to copy (particularly for archival purposes), resell, or maintain, your copy of the software as necessary, without infringing on the copyright holder’s intellectual property.

What I dont think has come up in court yet, is this ruling is not simply pick and choose, so when you apply the decision to the rest of the law, it quite clearly makes licensing a copy of the software detrimental to most computer systems and corporate security policies. The ability to backup and perform maintenance as needed to a computer system is necessary. It is greedy of software companies (in this case Blizzard) to try and infringe on this need simply because they don’t like people cheating at their game. People have been finding ways to cheat at games since they were invented, is it really worth it to Blizzard to topple the copyright act to try and prevent it? I’m surprised the ruling could be so short-sighted, but I suppose crazier things have happened.

Not all software companies are this greedy with their EULAs, however. And if you use open source software, this won’t affect you at all!

The original photo, had the 4th missile failing to launch.

Shouldn’t they be checking this sort of thing by now?

Personally, I like the banana missiles.

Or my own personal creation, Missile to Home Plate