Random Thoughts

Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #51.

Colleen Doran points out an interesting article on the idea that Jesus had kids.

Ah! A great deconstruction (with examples) of why so many people hate JK Rowling's prose in the Harry Potter books. Wonderful storytelling, wonderful imagination... crummy sentence construction.

The Bad Astronomy Blog links to one of the coolest sites on the internet: Real Time Satellite Tracking. Seriously, if you have highspeed internet, do what he says: switch to hybrid view, then zoom in to watch the satellite scream over the planet.