When I was eleven-years-old I was stung by a jellyfish while swimming in the Atlantic Ocean, and it was – at least at the time – the single most terrifying thing that has ever happened to me. That one little sting bashed my previously held dream of being a marine biologist, as my fear of sea creatures soon outweighed the prettiness of sea shells. I refused to enter the ocean long afterward, and to this day I’ll only go up to my knees in salt water, shuffling the whole time for fear of stingrays.

Porque it’s hot and Mala’s tired, here’s a reminder that Jesus is always with us. This image of Jesus that appeared in a baking tray after Oliver Bellerby of Yorkshire, England cooked a burger. Via / Boing Boing

Boing Boing : “Iraq Campaign 1991” by Phil [ video link ] “San Francisco-based video artist Phil Patiris transforms network news footage, clips from Star Trek, and sports coverage (all used without permission) into a devastating critique of the media/industrial complex.” Artist statement: “To the extent I see the mass media culture drag standards of intelligence, creativity and ethics down to the lowest common denominator… and then turn around and generate more slick and profitable news programming bemoaning the resulting deterioration in our streets, schools and elective offices (not to mention our art and civilization), that’s the extent I will point my own electromagnetic finger.