Random links
- How to live happily in a 78-square-foot apartment
- A few mins of video ... the tour. What it's like living there. Apparently the guy in question has been living there for 5 years or so at this point. I wonder what he pays in rent...
- Record rates of tax evasion on (Greek) islands
- "Tax evasion rates as high as 100 per cent were recorded in resorts on the islands of Zakynthos and Lefkada, in Rethymno on Crete and in Kastoria. Other areas on Crete also recorded very high rates of tax evasion, reaching 87 percent in Hania and 78 percent in Iraklio, followed by Santorini (83%), Corfu (75%), Naxos (73%) and Mykonos (68.5%). (AMNA)"
- Toilet Paper: A History
- Perhaps a somewhat odder link than normal...
- Celebrating Canada Day (and Bacon)
- Contextualization for Calvinists... TULIP or BACON?
- Heaven help us? Crime rates higher in countries that believe in 'supernatural benevolence'
- "Belief in hell keeps down criminal activity, but belief in heaven actually boosts it, according to a pair of researchers at the universities of Oregon and Kansas. ... The researchers tested the pattern across geographic and cultural boundaries and found the same outcome in Africa, South and Central America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, the U.S. and Canada. The relationship also persists across nearly all major religious faiths including Roman Catholic, non-Catholic Christian, Hinduism, Shintoism and syncretic religions that blend two or more belief systems. The only place where the pattern could not be found was in predominantly Muslim countries in Asia, where a nearly equal belief in heaven and hell produced little variance."