Rotundus.com

The couple's nightmare started in October 2003 when Mrs Webster took their second son to hospital with a swollen leg. He was found to have a number of small fractures which doctors said could be caused only by physical abuse.

The following year they were permanently removed and put up for adoption after a one-day court hearing.

Medical experts later concluded that the injuries were not caused by violent twisting and shaking, but were symptoms of rare case of scurvy.

Mr Webster, 35, and his 27-year-old wife fled to Ireland in 2006 to stop their fourth child, Brandon, being taken into care at birth.

The Appeal Court ruled on Wednesday that even though the Websters 'may well' have been victims of a miscarriage of justice the adoption order on their eldest three children could not be revoked because the youngsters are now settled with their adoptive parents.

Source: Daily Mail

Police in Nigeria are holding a goat on suspicion of armed robbery. A group of citizens were on an anti-crime patrol in the capital city of Lagos when they found a pair of armed “hoodlums” trying to steal a Mazda 323. The vigilantes say they chased the men, but one escaped and the other used black magic to turn himself into a goat. “We cannot confirm the story,” said a police spokesman, adding that the goat will be held, but not prosecuted, until “it can be proved scientifically that a human being turned into a goat.”

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I've created some odd websites before, including one dedicated to the mole. It was a high school IT project which required an "academic" subject for a website. Thus I took it as a challenge to do something particularly odd - which incidentally was also how I survived high school English.

Another somewhat unusual website was one devoted to trebuchets. Thus this toaster, which apparently has adjustable angle and force for ejecting toast, struck me as amusing.

I was a little surprised when I first came across the following quote in Christianity Today from the creator of VeggieTales:

Bible stories aren't written to make good movies. They are historical. In Hollywood, the idea is, The worst possible reason to put something in a movie is because it really happened. If it doesn't make a good movie, change it. We don't have that leeway because we're dealing with Scripture. We have to tell those stories very literally. That can be compelling for a half hour but doesn't make a good movie.

- Phil Vischer

Honestly, I don't think that it's really consistent with a lot of the stuff that VeggieTales did.

I tend to be a bit of an iconoclast, although at the same time I take Isaiah 53:2 to suggest that in most instances it's not an issue worth much fighting over if someone happens to disagree.