What kind of Catholic are you?

A bit of a fun quiz. What kind of Catholic are you? I'm:

You Are a Daily Rosary (Very Traditional) Catholic
You'd like the church to revive the time-honored devotions, liturgical practices, and strong institutional discipline that prevailed before the Second Vatican Council—and you're hoping that Pope Benedict XVI will lead the church in exactly that direction. Your favorite hymn is probably a traditional Latin composition such as the "Panis Angelicus," and your favorite pope is probably a pioneer of the Church's great liturgical tradition such as Gregory the Great.

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PS: this is my first post from an iPad. Not altogether a simple task!

Oh dear BBC

Is mise Peader Robinson

I love this story from BBC Northern Ireland about the hacker who has translated the DUP website into Irish. It's hard to imagine something that would have made the Dinosaur Unionist Party more incandescent with rage. Lovely!

A language activist has hacked into three DUP websites, temporarily translating their homepages into Irish.

On one, Peter Robinson was shown introducing himself in the language.

"Is mise Peadar Robinson agus tugaim tacaiocht don Acht na Gaelige" is translated as "I am Peter Robinson and I support an Irish Language Act".

Irish language legislation has been a source of friction at Stormont with the DUP repeatedly frustrating Sinn Fein appeals for its introduction.

The hacker, who calls himself Hector O'Hackatdawn, also broke into peterrobinson.org and jeffreydonaldson.org.

On its Twitter feed, the DUP said its website had been "temporarily affected by malicious activity".
It added that the police were now dealing with the issue.

Monday look-a-like

Ed "Brutus" Miliband - v - Wallace

Enough already

Awesome ball skills!

Can I hitch a ride?

No comment

Got my son an iPhone for his birthday the other week, and recently got my  daughter an iPod for hers, and was dead chuffed when the family clubbed together and bought me an iPad for father’s day.Got my wife an iRon for her  birthday.  

It was around then the fight started......

Remarkable photographs

Have a look at these amazing photos here.

Basically what the photographer has done is source a lot of old photos from 1941, then gone out and taken new photos from the same positions, same perspectives, etc, and photoshopped them together.

 http://sergey-larenkov.livejournal.com/

Just because

Vuvuzelas - annoying people for thousands of years

The Sash My Father Wore

Something completely different in celebration of "the Glorious 12th"

 

Co-incidences

Update: Well so much for that then. Oh well


In 1982:

•  Germany won the Eurovision Song Contest
• German football side Bayern Munich lost in the final of the European Cup / Champions League
• The (West) German side won the World Cup

In 2010:

• Germany won the Eurovision Song Contest
• Bayern Munich lost in the final of the European Cup / Champions League
•  Three out of three?

Good old Gordon

Or should that be poor old Gordon?

St Malachy on holiday!

St Malachy is off to sunnier climes for the next four weeks.

 
Things will go very quiet on the blog for a while as interweb access is going to be a little hit and miss but I will post bits and pieces as and when I can.

Of cities and counterfeits

The website a1articles.com has an unusual take on the world's top 10 counterfeit cities. They report:

What’s Australia’s capital city? If your answer is Sydney, you make a mistake. However, you are not the only one to make that foolish mistake, because there are many like you. Tourist Website VirtualTourist.com voted the world’s top ten counterfeit capital cities. Chief Executive Officer of Virtual Tourist.com said: “Certain city of a country or a province (state) is the largest or most populous city, so we mistakenly regard it as the capital or capital city of its country or province.”

The following is the world’s top ten ”counterfeit” capitals or capital cities:

Albany

1. New York City, posing as New York State’s capital. The same name is called “New York”, but New York City is not New York State’s capital. The real capital is Albany, New York.

Canberra

2. Sydney poses as Australia’s capital. Actually, Sydney is Australia’s largest city and is also the capital of New South Wales. Australia’s capital is Canberra.

Springfield

3. Chicago poses as the capital of Illinois. As a matter of fact, the “Windy City” Chicago is not the capital of Illinois. The real capital in the hometown of Abraham Lincoln — Springfield.

Brasilia

4. Rio de Janeiro, posing as Brazil’s capital, is Brazil’s second largest city and the largest harbor city. Rio de Janeiro is also known as the Carnival City. However, it is not Brazil’s capital, and the real capital is Brasilia.

Ankara

5. Istanbul, posing as Turkey’s capital. It’s Turkey’s largest city and port, and it’s the world’s only one way across two continents – Europe and Asia. It is not the Turkey’s capital city. Its capital is Ankara.

Bern

6. Geneva poses as the capital of Swizerland. The right answer is neither Geneva nor Zurich. Bern is Switzerland’s capital city.

Pretoria

Sacred Heart Cathedral, Pretoria

7. Johannesburg poses as South Africa’s capital. South Africa has three capitals. The administrative capital is Pretoria. The legislative capital is Cape Town. The judicial capital is Bloemfontein.

Bamako

8. Timbuktu poses as the capital of Mali. As a historic city, Timbuktu is probably the most famous city in Mali, but the fact is the capital of Mali is Bamako.

Carson City

9. Las Vegas poses as the capital of Nevada. In fact, Las Vegas is not Nevada State’s capital, the real capital is Carson City.

Rabat

10. Casablanca poses as the capital of Morocco. Though Casablanca is Morocco’s largest city and the Hollywood film Casablanca glorifies Casablanca, it’s not the capital. Instead, the capital is Rabat.

Really cool music video

This is too good not to share.



h/t: Fr Finigan

Web genie

You've got to try this. How it works I've no idea but it works.

Akinator, the Web Genius

Three out of three for me:

Hitler and the Pope

Friendly warning for ageing hippies