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So, as you'll know, I love Mr Deity. But this episode in particular, Mr Deity and the Book, I found both hilarious and poignant.

After studying Advanced Workshop, and in partiular my essay on Joshua and Ricoeur's hermeneutics of suspicion and retrieval, I've been reinvigorated in my search to rediscover the Bible after being wounded by faith, life and the text. Mr Deity indicates many of the themes that I find myself wrestling with, and offers are somewhat anarchic solution - 'Let's Job the guy'. Not necessarily the non-violent path I would have preferred, but probably more humourous, let's face it.

I've been watching Mr Deity for a couple of months now and thought it was about time I shared it here, if you've not seen Mr Deity already.

I came in on episode 3, Mr Deity and the Light, which is just hilarious. But the first episode is great, and obviously, being episode 1, is the place to start.

As I understand it Brian Dalton, the writer and director of Mr Deity who also plays Mr Deity himself, wrote the first episode as a personal response to the Asian tsunami of Christmas 2004. And then, realising that he'd hit on a cracking theme, carried on making episodes of Mr Deity. I've just watched episode 9, Mr Deity and the Book, through the Mr Deity podcast feed in iTunes (or you may like to go to the podcast RSS feed), but it's not available on YouTube yet so I can't put it in here.

Anyway, here is Mr Deity episode 1, Mr Deity and the Evil.

… and Al Franken followed. And God looked and said 'It is good.'

I know it's another trailer, but I love films and this looks like it's going to be another good one. Ok, so it's about US politics, but over here we love looking in from the outside and laughing at how messed up y'all got it over there!

Al Franken: God Spoke is a film out of the same school yard as Farenheit: 9/11 - a comic takes on the politicians and lambasts their best attempts to persuade us all that they're right by showing exactly why they're wrong. In Al Franken's case, the premise is simple: they're liars.

Here's the YouTube.com trailer...

Check out the official site: www.godspokefilm.com.

Found this on Google Video. Don't have a TV so never saw it whenever it was broadcast, but it is a brilliant portrayal of global politics and the future of the planet by comedian Robert Newman (of Newman and Baddiel fame).

Today I discovered FON.

FON is a 'Global Community of people who share WiFi.' If you join FON, you can 'share excess bandwidth at home and roam the world for free,' and even make a bit of money from sharing your WiFi if you want to be a 'Bill' and 'milk your WiFi.'

Simply download their software to your router and your excess bandwith is (securely) shared with anyone else in the FON community. And if your router is not compatible then just buy one of their subsidised 'social routers' for €5/$5

Easy!

As some of may know or will have guessed, the Peace Church site runs on the Drupal open source content management system - a superb free (as in beer) website management system. Drupal was recently released in version 4.7 with some incredible new features and improvements, so I've upgraded the Peace Church site to the latest version.

And to fit with the site upgrade I've given the site a facelift too. The homepage looks different and works differently too, to reflect the changes in exposure and use that peacechurch.org.uk is having. I hope you find it a good change (see below for further on the changing homepage!) - please leave your comments.

In 1996, electric cars began to appear on roads all over California. They were quiet and fast, produced no exhaust, and ran without gasoline. In 2002, General Motors pulled the plug on their innovative EV1 electric car, despite an outcry and public protests. By the end of 2005, every car had been crushed and recycled in the GM Desert Proving Grounds.

Who killed the electric car?

Visit the movie site, www.whokilledtheelectriccarmovie.com, to see the suspects and hear the story.

Or watch the Who Killed the Electric Car? YouTube trailer...

October 2006, the movie of the book - Fast Food Nation. Here's the trailer.

Fantastic video of Will Ferrell as George Bush with a Special Announcement on Global Warming:

Will Ferrell - Bush on Global Warming on Transbuddha.

Too close to the truth...?

Maybe.

Just for the sake of completeness, this is the latest development in the letter from the Primates of the Anglican Global South to Rowan Williams...

Primates disown open letter to Archbishop of Canterbury - An open letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury written by some Anglican Primates from the Southern Hemisphere, widely interpreted as an attack on Dr Rowan Williams’ leadership, has been disowned by two of those described as its signatories. [Ekklesia News]