Catholic spiritual leaders met in the Vatican this week to do away with limbo. Limbo is where unbaptized babies go when they die.
This was a strategic move on behalf of the Church to make the faith more appealing to the developing world, where infant mortality rates are very high. What happens to all the baby souls currently in limbo is up for grabs. Perhaps they get to Heaven by default. Perhaps they’re happy there and will prefer to stay. Or perhaps they’ll get a second chance as newborn babies.
Some Indians in India barred themselves in their homes as a community member reported dead in prison returned home. Family and friends alike fled in fear, and the village council demanded that he prove he was not a ghost, unwilling to take the word of a possible specter.
Lexus’ flagship sedan has long been the car of choice among luxury car owners who value reliability and comfort, but competing German sedans have always had more aggressive styling and finer amenities. No longer.
The 2007 LS460 is a car truly worthy of the Lexus brand.
Tom’s Hardware has summarized and cataloged the history of the CPU and associated benchmarks in case, you know, you need it…
Toyota wonders what a minivan could be, since theirs just isn’t hip.
Here’s one of their ideas:
I kinda want one…
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
-Abraham Lincoln
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
-Stephen Jay Gould
Don’t touch that dial.
And if you’re TV does have a dial, get yourself a new TV.
-Stephen Colbert
Errare humanum est. Perseverare diabolicum.
To err is human. To repeat is of evil.
-Seneca the Younger
If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.
-Dan Quayle