I’ve discovered so many great blogs recently that I’ve decided to start awarding a LINGY to every one of them. In the old days, the LINGY was only for the grand old men and women of the blogosphere. But in recent months the blogosphere has suffered a cataclysmic shakedown with many great bloggers just [...]

1. Whip for three hours. 2. Take out of The Bowl* <gloat> *"The Bowl" is the Rose Bowl which the Beavers were guaranteed to play in until the Ducks creamed them 65-38 on their turf. </gloat> We now return to our regularly scheduled programming.

I tried out the “Belief-O-Matic” at beliefnet.com this morning. It is a rather extended survey asking your beliefs on various theological questions. While answering I tried to lean toward the more “liberal” spectrum of my religious beliefs and the results seemed to bear that out since although I definitely consider myself [...]

  Sociologists tell us that sports rivalries allow citizens to sublimate and redirect regional hatreds without open bloodshed. [...]

Many of you have wondered at the staggering creativity that pours forth from this blog on a daily basis. In fact, even when I quit blogging the afflatus continued to blow like a breath of sublime webby wind. How do I do it? What, you have all been asking is the secret to Lingamish’s divine [...]

“In Mashonaland West province, some people are trying to survive by eating wild fruit and digging for roots.” Source: BBC, Zimbabwe starves as despair grows I would like to celebrate this year. There is much in my life to be thankful for. God has blessed me [...]

Aye, I was a notorious software pirate in high school. No software was safe on the school’s computers. But after bein’ banned for life from the computer lab and also undergoin’ a spiritual con’ersion t’ Christianity Me left behind my eye patch and peg leg and became annoyin’ly legalistic on the subject [...]

Image: The Fail Whale. Jesus Fish for the 21st century? Recently I asked readers to consider what a Christian creed would look like if we were writing it in the context of the globalized pluralistic Church of the 21st century. Creeds normally arise out of doubt or as a defense against [...]

  My recent post God loves divorce elicited less responses than I hoped. I had hoped to hear some of my fellow bloggers give a hearty “amen.” But the response was strangely muted. The few comments that were left were funny, poetic and touching. And I received two private messages from formerly [...]

HT: MobileActive.org: Google India’s Free SMS Channel Since Twitter failed overseas I’ve been discouraged by the SMS situation. SMS is such a compelling medium. It is quick, cheap, gives immediate satisfaction and short bursts of timely information. And it is an entry point for more complex forms of wireless communication such as MMS and [...]

Note: The original title of this post was “In which Lingamish searches for porn, girls and xxx.”

Our family is slowly habituating to the US and its oddities. We continue to be shocked and amazed by the variety in the grocery stores. If only we could transport the smallest convenience store in the most podunk [...]

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