Month: October 2005

BBC News: Oldest noodles unearthed in China

The remains of the world’s oldest noodles have been unearthed in China.

The 50cm-long, yellow strands were found in a pot that had probably been buried during a catastrophic flood.

Radiocarbon dating of the material taken from the Lajia archaeological site on the Yellow River indicates the food was about 4,000 years old.

Controversially if these are remnants of the Flying Spaghetti Monster during his creation of the Earth then the date of creation would be some 2000 years later than that accepted by many creationists as calculated by James Ussher (January 4, 1581–March 21, 1656), Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland between 1625–1656 and a prolific religious scholar who most famously published a chronology which dated creation from 4004 BC.

It seems clear to me that in our modern times with greater archaeologically knowledge and technology for dating of items that evidence would suggest the Earth is much younger than even the Creationists believe.

As our date is later than theirs I believe that makes us the winners so Spaghetti-Monsterism triumphs.

Tags: religion

Frankly it looks like England don’t based on the first half of tonight’s match against Poland. He might well be the best English player but the team seems much more balanced without him in it.

Not only that but the movement has been excellent as has the movement of the ball and the possession of it with the structured passing to build up the pressure on the opposition.

This is the England team performance we should have been seeing throughout the qualifiers not now that we are in a position of already having qualified. Perhaps the relative easy group that we found ourselves in was of detriment to the team performance as I think the team only truly shines when the pressure is really on against a difficult opponent.

Conversely now having qualified the pressure is off a bit so the team can relax and this also allows the team to play it’s best now we are playing for the honour of topping the group against the only truly worthy rivals in the group.

Tags: sport

At last something to get your teeth into in the Intelligent Design debate some actual scientific evidence which lends credence to the theory. This experiment into the creation of the previously unobserved species Noodleous doubleous certainly has me convinced. The estimated probability of this spontaneous generation event is too low to be explained by thermodynamics and therefore apparently represents intelligent design.

I think the dissection is particularly illuminating.

Please note that as the experiment involves the extremely hazardous substance Dihydrogen Monoxide it should not be carried out at home by anybody other than trained professionals.

Whilst we are in the mood for learning why not check out the fun to be had at Sobics School. Damn those little pieces of wall, I can see they will be the bane of my life for days to come.

Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link is available to download free under a Creative Commons license.

This first collection by award-winning author Kelly Link, takes fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesiacs and honeymooners, revenants and readers alike, on a voyage into new, strange, and wonderful territory.

Tags: books, creative commons

A possibly dodgy penalty decision then another one that was more clear cut that wasn’t given and now two yellow cards within the space of a couple of minutes for Beckham.

Could a ref be any more controversial than in this match?

Well I guess this might solve the midfield problems as there remains very little option without Beckham in the picture.

Tags: sport