Archive for November, 2004

Dolphins save New Zealand swimmers from shark

Wednesday, November 24th, 2004

Stories like this are totally awesome.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A pod of dolphins circled protectively round a group of New Zealand swimmers to fend off an attack by a great white shark, media reported on Tuesday.
Lifesavers Rob Howes, his 15-year-old daughter Niccy, Karina Cooper and Helen Slade were swimming 300 feet off Ocean Beach […]

Earthsea TV Mini-Series

Wednesday, November 24th, 2004

I have yet to find the air-dates for it, but one of my favorite series of fantasy books has been made into what looks like a shitty tv mini-series. Based on comments on the Imdb page, it looks like they tried to condense only the first two books into 4 hours of tv. But yeah, […]

Say the word and you’ll be free

Wednesday, November 24th, 2004

I started reading Madeleine L’Engle’s book The Rock That Is Higher : Story as Truth. It’s decent, but it’s not quite as focused on story-theory type stuff as I was hoping. It’s actually much more about using Bible stories and stuff like that as a guide in your life. Not quite my cup of tea, […]

Israel Visited by Plague of Locusts

Wednesday, November 24th, 2004

Israel is currently experiencing the worst infestation of locusts in almost 50 years. Here’s a photo of a locust swarm. They seem to have flown in from North Africa, and in certain areas are devouring all the plantlife they can find. Rather than have it ruin their day though, some Israelis are making the most […]

The Triforce & The Trinity

Wednesday, November 24th, 2004

I was gonna put together some ideas about the correlations between the Triforce in the Legend of Zelda games, and the Christian Trinitarian view of God, but then I googled it and found somebody had already done a halfway decent job of it (or at least a good start anyway), so I’ll just post what […]