Holy Office

2012-12-01

Doomsday Calendar

I've taken a little time to put together dates when the end of the world should have taken place, and here's the result. This way you'll never again have to wonder whether the world has already ended on a given day, and when!

(Click on the entries to see details, and use top left arrows and drop-down menu to switch months, or top right link to switch layout.)

UPDATE:
The calendar is, and will remain, a work in progress.

You can access it directly at bit.ly/doomsdays-html (opens in new browser window/tab).

Users of Google calendar can add it as an third-party calendar by entering the Calendar ID "caveatlector.eu_ltah6dpenkivhhvf710bveio14@group.calendar.google.com" in the text input field marked "Add a coworker's calendar" under "Other calendars" in the side menu of their calendar page on Google:

To import/add the calendar to a calendar management application (e.g., Outlook or the Lightning extension for Thunderbird), please use the following addresses:

http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/caveatlector.eu_ltah6dpenkivhhvf710bveio14%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
(iCal format)

http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/caveatlector.eu_ltah6dpenkivhhvf710bveio14%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic
(XML format)

If you would like to embed the calendar on a page on your website or blog, please use the HTML code:

<iframe src="https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?title=Doomsdays%20Calendar%3A%20So%20you'll%20know%20each%20day%20when%20the%20world%20ended&showCalendars=0&height=600&wkst=2&bgcolor=%23FFFFFF&src=caveatlector.eu_ltah6dpenkivhhvf710bveio14%40group.calendar.google.com&color=%23182C57&ctz=Europe%2FRome" style=" border-width:0 " width="800" height="600" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

for an 800x600 embedded calendar, or:

<iframe src="https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?title=Doomsdays%20Calendar%3A%20So%20you'll%20know%20each%20day%20when%20the%20world%20ended&showCalendars=0&height=480&wkst=2&bgcolor=%23FFFFFF&src=caveatlector.eu_ltah6dpenkivhhvf710bveio14%40group.calendar.google.com&color=%23182C57&ctz=Europe%2FRome" style=" border-width:0 " width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

for an 640x480 pixels calendar.

2012-08-12

The body of Christ

2012-08-07

Curiosity landing on Mars

Curiosity landed 6 August 2012 at 05:32 GMT near the foot of a mountain almost 5 km tall and 155 km in diameter inside Gale Crater, on Mars. During a nearly two-year prime mission, the rover will investigate whether the region ever offered conditions favorable for microbial life.

This is the raw footage of the EDL (Entry, Descent, Landing) as transmitted by NASA TV, starting 1 minute before entry and ending when the first photos are received from Curiosity, after the landing.

And a view of the rover's descent captured by the the Curiosity Mars Descent Imager (MARDI). The instrument shot 4 fps video from heatshield separation to the ground.

For more info visit:

2011-06-05

Jesus vs The Doctor

2011-05-09

Fictional Cosmos

Oops! Apparently embedding is disabled for this video. Sorry for that.
You can find it at: youtu.be/2Nmov86o-6k

2011-05-03

Double Standard

2011-04-23

The True Story of Easter

Well... one of them, anyway:

2011-04-18

Atheist Cartoons - Easter collection

dog’s lovin’ it

the other meaning of easter

the new t-shirt

if jesus had died 20 years ago...

picky, picky, picky

the compassionate kid

the primitive

N.B.: The cartoons have been published by AtheistCartoons.com, and I had them linked from there. For some time, that server is no longer accessible; I've managed to find the images on the net, so I've copied them here.

h/t Adam for bringing the issue to my attention.

2011-04-14

The Wealth of the Romanian Orthodox Church

Original Romanian title: Averea bisericii

An inquiry into the wealth and privileges of the Romanian Orthodox Church, aired March 30, 2011, by TVR1, the first channel of the Romanian national television, presented by Cornel Mihalache.

The show consisted of a filmed report and commentaries made by the presenter and his four guests:

Remus Cernea, president of the Romanian Humanist Association;
Mirela Corlățan, journalist, writing for the Evenimentul Zilei daily newspaper;
Father Alexandru Moțoc, General Church Inspector at the Romanian Orthodox Patriarchy;
Sorin Frunză, director of the State Secretariat for Religious Affairs.

NOTE: Subtitles are available in both English and Romanian. Just click the "CC" button if they don't show automatically or if they show in the wrong language.

The material is, as far as I know, one of the very few filmed in Romania during the last decade or so, where the Romanian Orthodox Church is treated anything but great reverence and depicted as anything but the savior of our whole society. Even more notably, it was aired on the national television, which is notoriously subservient to the Church.

The church, on the other hand, even though it enjoys victimizing itself, is nowhere near being a victim of circumstances or church-haters or whatever, as it so often claims. On the contrary, not only is there no clear separation of Church and State in Romania, but the Church is being funded by the state, as well as given numerous privileges — some by law and in plain sight, some not quite. What’s shown in the 70 minutes, the total duration of all five parts, is only the tip of the iceberg.

I have created a playlist with all five parts of the show, as follows, which you can access at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B9A316F9BC929581 or http://bit.ly/church-wealth-playlist

Also, here are the five individual parts:

If you need the subtitles files, you can download them in .SRT format on my blog, CaveatLector.eu
(Of course, you're welcome to visit the blog even if you're not looking for the subtitling.)

Last but not least, many thanks to the Youtube user EkemTV, who recorded and initially uploaded the show, and to Lucian a.k.a. Vilo13 who brought it to my attention.

2011-04-04

Greaua moștenire a Maicii Tereza (Das schwierige Erbe der Mutter Teresa)

„Greaua moștenire a Maicii Tereza"

Playlist Youtube cu toate cele 3 părți: http://bit.ly/mt-playlist

Reportaj-documentar difuzat de canalul german ARD pe 25 august 2010.

Realizatori: Michael Busse și Maria-Rosa Bobbi.
Pagina emisiunii: http://bit.ly/mt-daserste (în germană)
Sursa: http://bit.ly/mt-mediathek (în germană)