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Category Archives: Just Too Cool
A random act of culture
Remember the flash mob choir brindisi thing? Get a load of this, which I picked up from CMR. 600 choristers break out in song with the largest organ in the world, in Macy’s in Philadelphia. It’s a random act of … Read More
MUGS GONE WILD! This time MAGNET gone wild!
I love emails with photos of WDTPRS stuff, coffee mugs and other swag… in the wild. A seminarian reader sent a note: Hi Father, I thought you’d appreciate this. This is on the…wait for it…”liturgy fridge” that has the wine … Read More
Stephen Maturin would be delighted
Which it is great news. From CNA: Pope’s first words in Barcelona to be in Catalan Rome, Italy, Nov 1, 2010 / 10:01 pm (CNA/Europa Press).- The first official words pronounced by Pope Benedict XVI during his visit to Barcelona … Read More
Nuns auctioning rare Honus Wagner baseball card
From AP with my usual treatment: Holy card! Nuns auctioning rare Honus Wagner By BEN NUCKOLS, Associated Press BALTIMORE – Sister Virginia Muller had never heard of shortstop Honus Wagner. But she quickly learned the baseball great is a revered … Read More
A really old thing!
For the first time in a while I found something useful on the site of the National Catholic Fishwrap! Headline: Oldest and most distant object in the universe discovered No, this isn’t about Richard McBrien or even Joan Chittister. Fishwrap … Read More
Which titular churches will the new Cardinals receive?
Cardinals are the Pope’s special Roman clergy. Historically they were the deacons and priests of diaconal and presbyteral “titles” (parishes) of Rome, while the cardinal bishops were bishops of little dioceses nearby. The College of Cardinals is still divided into … Read More
Death of a comet and meteors from Orion
From Spaceweather: SUNDIVING COMET: A newly-discovered comet is plunging toward the sun for a close encounter it probably will not survive. The comet is too deep in the sun’s glare for human eyes to pick out, but it is showing … Read More
October Horse and Noble Horse, from Ancient Rome to Ancient China
I was reminded by roguecatholicism that today is the Idea of October and therefore the day for a different sort of Oktoberfest, the ancient Roman rite of the “October Horse”. Rite of the ‘October Horse’ — one of the many … Read More
Not the direction I usually want to launch my phone!
This is definitely for your Just Too Cool file. From cultofmac comes this great story: Father and Son Launch iPhone, HD Video Camera into Space By Adam Rosen (4:00 am, Oct. 12, 2010) Taking their iPhone Where No iDevice Has … Read More
