Mambo No. 5 + The Thing + robots = whatever the hell this thing is.

I was watching a Fry and Laurie thing in which some guy named Mithras was being discussed.

In this clip they talked about how much Christianity resembled this pagan religion and how it ended up being influenced by it. Here are some of Mithras’s claims to modern Christianity:

1. Mithra was born of a virgin on December 25th in a cave, and his birth was attended by shepherds.
2. He was considered a great traveling teacher and master.
3. He had 12 companions or disciples.
4. Mithra’s followers were promised immortality.
5. He performed miracles.
6. As the “great bull of the Sun,” Mithra sacrificed himself for world peace.
7. He was buried in a tomb and after three days rose again.
8. His resurrection was celebrated every year.
9. He was called “the Good Shepherd” and identified with both the Lamb and the Lion.
10. He was considered the “Way, the Truth and the Light,” and the “Logos,” “Redeemer,” “Savior” and “Messiah.”
11. His sacred day was Sunday, the “Lord’s Day,” hundreds of years before the appearance of Christ.
12. Mithra had his principal festival of what was later to become Easter.
13. His religion had a eucharist or “Lord’s Supper,” at which Mithra said, “He who shall not eat of my body nor drink of my blood so that he may be one with me and I with him, shall not be saved.”
14. “His annual sacrifice is the passover of the Magi, a symbolical atonement or pledge of moral and physical regeneration.”
15. Shmuel Golding is quoted as saying that 1 Cor. 10:4 is “identical words to those found in the Mithraic scriptures, except that the name Mithra is used instead of Christ.”
16. The Catholic Encyclopedia is quoted as saying that Mithraic services were conduced by “fathers” and that the “chief of the fathers, a sort of pope, who always lived at Rome, was called ‘Pater Patratus.’”

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Mythraism was derived from Persian Zoroastrianism. Christianity already existed outside of Mythraism, however it was St. Paul who combined the two scripturally adding a Messiac theme from Judaism. Mythraism and Christianity became politically (by that I mean officially) merged by Emperor Constantine. Along the way, the symbol of its eucharists were taken from the Egyptian phallic symbol, the cross, which also manifested itself throught the Ankh (☥). Source [Link]

As much as I discouraged myself from looking up stuff from wikipedia, I ended up sneaking a peak at it and found this…

Caption: Detail of sculpture (left) showing scorpion attacking the bull’s testicles

Where was that in the Old Testament?

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If you love Ceiling Cat but don’t have a cat of your own, then I have good news for you. Now you can have your very own Ceiling Cat catch you performing questionable acts. Of course some assembly is required, but when you finish you can fap freely knowing that your creation is secretly monitoring you.

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I thought this was a joke when I first saw it.

While I know that The Big Lebowski took place in California and this bowler died in Michigan, I can’t help but think that this man’s eulogy will be on a cliff on the Pacific Ocean.

Donny was a good bowler, and a good man. He was…He was one of us. He was a man who loved the outdoors, and bowling…And he was an avid bowler. And a good friend. He died — he died as so many of his generation, before his time. In your wisdom you took him, Lord. As you took so many birght flowering young men, at Khe San and Lan Doc and Hill 364. These young men gave their lives. And Donny too. Donny…who…who loved bowling…

The name of Michigan bowler who died was Don…short for Donny.
kare11.com | Twin Cities, MN | Michigan bowler dies moments after 300 game

Javascript closures are very hard to get. I didn’t even know how to use them or what they were. The links for the bottom graphic calculator are done with closures used in a loop (at least when I wrote the js file in Prototype). These videos however spell it out very easy for you to understand the concept. From Stuart Langridge’s “Secrets of Javascript Closures” presentation.
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Have you ever browsed amazon.com and felt like something was missing? Have you ever thought to yourself that searching amazon.com would be so much better if it was like walking the sidewalks of Rodeo Drive? Well now you can window shop the site with a virtual authenticity similar to that of going to your local mall.

Complete with an Apple-esque UI, the site also lets you preview movies, music, videogames, and even audio preview books.

Amazon Windowshop Beta

What can I say, I guess I’m just a sucker for dioramas and 3D paper art. These cutouts pay homage to the Marvel Comicbook legacy rather than their movie counterparts. I think they look pretty cool, however I’m a little weirded out by all of them sticking out their tongues.

X-Men BoxPunx Figures

It’s pretty well-known that Hollywood doesn’t portray computer programming…or anything computer related with any accuracy at all. This one takes the cake.
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Wario Land: Shake It (Wii)

I’d embed the video to my site but I don’t want links and text to start falling everywhere.