Three random oddities

Three random links culled from my Bookmarks (which haven't been updated in a loooong time)...

(1.) Nails-a-lon.com ... a.k.a. "Women with horrible talons." My college piano teacher, Russ, instilled in me the importance of short nails. "If they're long," she'd tell me, "they just click-click-click on the keys." She didn't have much to worry about. I've never liked long nails.

But there are people out there who do. They hang out at Nails-A-Lon. They even have an annual nail get-together. I'm sure it's very ... scratchy. Frankly, the thought sends chills up my spine as I frantically search for the nail clippers.

(2.) The Flaming Fire Illustrated Bible. There are 36,665 verses in the Bible. And this site wants people to illustrate every one of them. It's a lofty goal — to date, they still lack over 30,000 verses. But every one counts.

Apparently, artistic ability is not a prerequisite for submission. (Or perhaps that artist just thought Jesus was a really angry guy.) Also, artists seem to be allowed to endorse products ... such as TraveLodge.

Anyway, the art ranges from beautiful to absurd, and it's an interesting look at how people perceive the Bible.

(3.) Star Wars: Fact Not Fiction ... Okay, every technogeek I know is intimately familiar with TimeCube. But, alas!, there are other wacky folks on the Internet. JAH is one of them.

I don't think I could paraphrase his work, so I'm just going to paste the first half of the run-on sentence which comprises the first paragraph: George Lucas quite naturally believes that he wrote "Starwars", when, in reality, he was told telepathically what to write in the original first three Episodes (4-6), by the very "Force" to which the films refer, and was "forced" to make only episodes 4-6, first ...

It gets wackier. Jedi is really code for "JEsus' DIsciple." Umm, yeah. Whatever you say.