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Housefly Glasses
Wednesday, March 29, 2006 Let's see here, what do I have to say...

First off, I'd like to note Emily's comment on my last post, as it was correct. I, unintentionally, downplayed the Catholic part of Father "X" and focused to much on the fact that I thought I designed such a cool page. This was not at all my intent, as I just said. Father "X" is a fantastic homilist and his sermons are most definatly worth listening to. I've listened to three of them as of date, and found them very good. "Heaven or Hell," which is currently availible at the Father X website (http://www.alternative-internet.com/features/fatherx/) may be the best I've heard so far. Another sermon by him (also currently availible online) "Words Have Power" is the other contender for best. Anyway, they are very good Catholic sermons, and worth at least a listen.

For those of you have love great books, such as myself, I've found a few treats: 3 diffrent online book sites with huge collections of free classics online. First off, Wikisourse (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page) - The Free Library. Wikisourse has, as of this posts date, 22,691 texts availible. Second, and perhaps even better, is Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/). Project Gutenberg has a giantic collection (17,000 at the time of this post), which though not as big as Wikisourse, is still VERY good. Why, hoever, is Gutenberg perhaps better than Wikisourse is it has less books? Beacuse Gutenberg also has a collection of audiobooks at http://www.gutenberg.org/audio/. So for people like me who enjoy a good book anywhere (but get too sick to read in the car), check them out. Their collection consists of both human and computer read books, and they have plenty of each. Last of all is a directory of online books from these and other sites, The Online Books Page at: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/. Aside from being a great way to search through many online book collections at one time, they also collect news concerning online book collections.

Now at this point you are probably wondering why this post is titled "Housefly Glasses." Well, here we go. National Geographic's Photo in the News page has recently posted two very interesting photos that I thought I would share here. First is a picture of what an eclipse lloks like from the space station, and it's very cool: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0329_060329_eclipse.html
Second is a photograph of a housefly. With glasses. That photo is located at: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0328_060328_fly_glasses.html
Read the story with it to get it. I thought it was rather neat.

Anyway, that's all for now, so until next time, may all your Thursdays be Perpetual.

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