The Asteroid Belt: Japanese emoticons and buffet theft

Archaeologists believe they may have found the tomb of Jesus of Nazareth, along with the remains of his family. The findings “suggest that Jesus and Mary Magdalene might have produced a son named Judah.” This sounds oddly reminiscent of The Da Vinci Code. The article is short and doesn’t give much detail, so I don’t know how much weight it holds. If this ends up going anywhere, I wonder how churches will respond. If you’re interested, there’s a better article about the documentary that is being made. Do any Christians feel like commenting on this?

Bint Battuta of Bahrain writes briefly about a friend telling her of his time in prison during the 1990s. He was imprisoned in the wing for political criminals; in this wing, many of the inmates held classes for each other, “like a university.” The man in question taught poetry.

I chat online quite a bit with friends, and I use emoticons often. However, the Japanese seemingly use a whole hell of a lot more. Do they offer classes on their emoticons? All joking aside, I don’t understand a lot of them. Most emoticons I’ve seen are pretty common sense, like the colon with the parenthesis creates a smiley face, etc. By turning your head sideways, you can actually see the face being produced. I’m not sure what I’m supposed to be seeing in a lot of those emoticons…

Nils goes productive on us. I wish my browser was so organized. As an aside, I hope I’m not the only one who strained my eyes while trying to see all of the websites Nils has on his quickbar.

Apparently, locking up female koalas cause them to become lesbians. Well then! I’d add a further comment to this, but I don’t really know what to say.

A man from Palmer, Alaska may face criminal charges for using a wifi connection, provided by a public library, after hours. I’ll grant that the guy was being silly, moving from one wifi connection to another, after being told to knock it off. However, if the public library doesn’t want people using the wifi connection after the library is closed, wouldn’t it be simpler to just set up the connection to turn off when library closes?

Interested in what the United States Congress is up to? Check out OpenCongress. From the site: “OpenCongress brings together official government data with news and blog coverage to give you the real story behind each bill.” It sounds promising.

Today’s college students are far more narcissistic than their predecessors.

A jobless German used a false name to order five thousand dollars worth of food from a catering service, so he could treat his friends to something special. Unfortunately, he got caught.

Update: This is probably ancient, and I’m probably the last person on the planet to see it, but I’m going to link to it anyway, just because it’s so amazingly bad. The Worst Album Covers Ever.