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POPSPenguins Penguin Books is a British publisher founded in 1935 by Allen Lane. Lane's idea was to provide quality writing cheaply, for the same price as a pack of cigarettes. He also wanted them to be sold not only in bookshops but in railway stations, general stores and corner shops.
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POPSThe Three Little Pig... Uh Puppies! Yeah! Obviously the wolf in Little Red Riding Hood is way too violent. I think we should change it to a puppy as well. This article finally addresses the 500 pound gorilla in the room. It is high time we clean these "children's" stories up. We can no longer pretend these stories are not offensive and degrading to young girls. We need children's stories that have absolutely no chance of offending anyone regardless of the child's gender, religion, or sexual orientation.
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POPSBullying is exaggerated, says childhood expert A timely article. Discernment, wisdom and parenting skills needed here. When to step in and when to allow your children to deal with the realities of life. We do them no favors by shielding them....or by interfering and solving all their social problems. But when to recognize that the threats are beyond childhood jousting....that's the question.
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POPSKidnapped Pakistani Christian Girls Forced To Convert To Islam after receiving a fatwa (religious decree) from a Muslim religious leader, to justify their actions. Later on, it was disclosed that the Muslim religious leader was bribed to provide the 'fatwa.' When Masih went to Gill to demand his daughters back Gill refused to let them go. Gill, though, threatened Masih and said that now the girls had accepted Islam they could not return to their Christian family. Ashfaq Fateh, a Christian social worker from Toba Tek Singh, told Minorities Concern of Pakistan that Gill warned Masih that if he filed a case against him, his family would be killed. He also claimed that he could not be caught by the police or found guilty by any court. Despite these threats, Masih reported all the details to the local police. However, no action has been taken to get the girls released and the police have told him to keep quite about the whole affair.
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POPSDisplays of the Dead Some of these sites result from a phenomenon that has naturally (or supernaturally?) mummified the dead, while others consist of artful arrangements of bones and skulls done by a creative monk in his spare time. In addition to such collections of human remains, many saints whose bodies have been miraculously preserved are on display in churches. (There's also a Buddhist example of the miracle in Siberia.) Such displays of the dead certainly appeal to travelers with a taste towards the macabre, but they can also provide reflective travelers with a powerful reminder of the impermanence of life. Whatever your reason for checking out the dead on display, the sites below are widely recognized as among the best in the world. Also listed are individual preserved bodies of saints and other famous figures. More info here: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/02/sicily-crypts/gill-text
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POPSDawkins/McGrath conversation A splendid debate between Dawkins and McGrath. Although I found myself not agreeing with all of Dawkins comments by and large I throughly enjoyed the exchange.
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POPSSnow in Johannesburg, South Africa I was born and raised in Johannesburg. 1981 was the first time I saw and handled snow - what a thrill! (It was more like thick frost than snow really, but nevertheless we were dazzled by it)
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POPSFood Critic Murders Baboon: Needed Fodder for His Column?! While admitting there was no good excuse for his action, he nonetheless tries to explain: "I noticed that, when it was alive, I thought about the baboon as a thing. Now he’s dead, I’m posthumously anthropomorphising him, and that was one of the reasons I killed. I wanted to get a sense of what it might be like to kill someone, a stranger." Stop. Breathe. I note my first reaction: Excruciating execution for this guy, preferably slowly bleeding to death in front of his buddies, sounds like a good idea. Exhale. Pause. Next reaction: What the heck was he thinking? What sick person would find it perfectly acceptable to write about his urge to explore killing primates in a food column? Is he so disengaged from life and his place in it that he thinks this is witty? Educational? Cool?
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POPSSeveral handy web-based video tools I clipped this because it can convert a YouTube video (as well as videos from other sites) into an animated GIF. Which could come in handy someday, I guess. There are a couple other tools at the site. It looks pretty shady, but they seem to work.
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