Glen Davis

Hmmm… The Onion has an arti­cle col­lect­ing the com­ments that many celebri­ties have made about God over the course of their inter­views.

Some were artic­u­late, some were stu­pid, most were puz­zled. A few were humor­ous, in a sad sort of way:

Chuck Palah­niuk wrote Fight Club and four oth­er nov­els, includ­ing the new Lul­la­by.
The Onion: Is there a God?
Chuck Palah­niuk: Yes.
O: Care to elab­o­rate?
CP: Boy. Let me get back to you when I’m dead.

and

Stand-up come­di­an Steven Wright is known for his dead­pan deliv­ery and absur­dist one-lin­ers.
The Onion: Is there a God?
Steven Wright: Ahhh… You’ll have to ask Jesus.

and the kick­er

Amer­i­ca’s great­est liv­ing writer, Neal Pol­lack is the author of The Neal Pol­lack Anthol­o­gy Of Amer­i­can Lit­er­a­ture.
The Onion: Is there a God?
Neal Pol­lack: God does not exist, unless you are my moth­er-in-law and are read­ing this, in which case I def­i­nite­ly do believe that He exists, and will raise my chil­dren accord­ing­ly. But if you’re not my moth­er-in-law, and she’s not read­ing this, then He does not exist.

Read them all.

Three Lego pages have caught my eye with their out­landish dis­play of inge­nu­ity.

The achiev­ing the impos­si­ble award goes to the Andrew Lip­son’s Lego Page, which fea­tures clever engines and repro­duc­tions of M. C. Esch­er works. That’s right–he’s recre­at­ed those impos­si­ble draw­ings in 3D.

The we could make beau­ti­ful music togeth­er award goes to Hen­ry Lim’s Lego sculp­tures for his func­tion­al Lego harp­si­chord. Wow!

Final­ly, the ser­vice to human­i­ty award goes to the Cool Lego Site Of The Week. Get your need for geeky Lego ideas met here!

Masatoshi Koshi­ba, who just won 25% of this year’s Nobel Prize in physics (I did­n’t even know you could be a 25% win­ner), grad­u­at­ed last in his class at Tokyo Uni­ver­si­ty over 50 years ago.

He only made two A’s in his last two years of col­lege, both of which were in lab class­es where the grade was based on atten­dance.

Hmmm.… makes you think, does­n’t it?

Evi­dent­ly he took the Teacher’s words to heart: “Of mak­ing many books there is no end, and much study wea­ries the body.” (Ecc 12.12b, NIV)

The LA Times has the most inter­est­ing arti­cle I’ve seen in quite a while. It’s about a secre­tive group called The Fel­low­ship, a Chris­t­ian orga­ni­za­tion that has had mas­sive influ­ence in the pub­lic sphere.

For the last two decades, a Vir­ginia man­sion has been a pri­vate hide­away for world lead­ers, mem­bers of Con­gress, and even pop star Michael Jack­son…

The Fel­low­ship was a behind-the-scenes play­er at the Camp David Mid­dle East accords in 1978, work­ing with Pres­i­dent Jim­my Carter to issue a world­wide call to prayer with Israeli Prime Min­is­ter Men­achem Begin and Egypt­ian Pres­i­dent Anwar Sadat. Dur­ing the Cold War, it helped finance an anti-com­mu­nism pro­pa­gan­da film endorsed by the CIA and used by the Pen­ta­gon over­seas.

Last year, the Fel­low­ship helped arrange a secret meet­ing at Cedars between two war­ring lead­ers, Demo­c­ra­t­ic Repub­lic of Con­go Pres­i­dent Joseph Kabi­la and Rwan­dan Pres­i­dent Paul Kagame–one of the first of a series of dis­creet meet­ings between the two African lead­ers that even­tu­al­ly led to the sign­ing of a peace accord in July.

Inci­den­tal­ly, they’re also the ones who spon­sor the Nation­al Prayer Break­fast. There’s much more, and I encour­age you to read all about it. (Thanks to Chris­tian­i­ty Today for the link!)

A man in New Orleans was shot 25 times and lived. Here’s an excerpt from the arti­cle:

The vic­tim was walk­ing just before 3 a.m. when the attack­er walked up to him and began fir­ing a hand­gun, police said. “Once that weapon emp­tied, he pro­duced a sec­ond weapon and con­tin­ued to fire,” police said. “When the sec­ond weapon emp­tied, he pro­duced yet a third and con­tin­ued to fire.”

Read all about it!

And remember–never go walk­ing in New Orleans at 3 a.m.