Hither and thither 6/18/10

Here's this week's basket of fruits, nuts and chocolate. Check back after noon PT to see if there were any updates.

• Well...yeah:

• As an addendum to this post, occasional reader and good brother Justin Taylor pointed me to a listing of eight reasons why the lesbian-raised kids "study" does not prove anything.
• On that post, I'll be candid: I wish my post had gotten a bit more traction. If not me, then someone has to speak up to provoke some critical thought about the media onslaught painting a positive face on homosexuality. The propaganda is having an effect.
• In logic news, the argument "Some animals sometimes commit same-sex acts, therefore you cannot say it is immoral," is a bit like....

• Oh my. A fully functional Lego sniper rifle.
• Staying with Legos: reader College Jay found British Lego Hats!

• Reader Al found a detailed map showing the direction and count of Americans' moves, from area to area.
• Eighteen very cool Star Wars sand sculptures.
• As Mark Steyn observes, multiculturalism can be deadly.
• Michelle Malkin notes yet more typical liberal Democrat sexism.
• Reader Martin van Dooremallen discovered, lurking invisibly in the snow....

• On the subject of kitties, reader Sonja found a story of the entrepreneur who bought and developed the I Can Has Cheezburger site, and its kin.
• Whoa. You know, some stories don't require comment beyond the comment that they don't require comment.
• Interesting. Logos holds periodic contests in which it awards a Logos Scholar's Edition and a $1000 scholarship to a seminary student. Was the expectation that the prize would go to Christian men preparing for pastoral ministry? Don't know. Regardless, the most recent winner was a woman.  Do I know whether she's a pastor's wife with more time and opportunities than many pastors' wives have, or  whether she's planning to lead women's ministries? Nope. Do I wonder? Yes.
• Wow I'm Old Alert. It was 35 years ago this week that Jaws was released. I remember it vividly. John Podhoretz brings out some interesting facets of its production and release that I hadn't known, and tries to make the case that it was actually bad for cinema.
• As with most sports, I have no interest whatever in soccer... but this is pretty doggoned cool.
• I guess there was a particularly obnoxious horn at the World Cup:

• In the spirit of upcoming Father's Day, reader Paula found the perfect gift: Mandles. (Warning: a crude word or two.)
• In that same spirit, reader Fred Butler found... chocolate bacon bars. Om nom nom.
• Fred is also among those who noted that a real, live, dangerous portable blue laser can be yours for a couple of C-notes.
• Back to the noms: I like ice cream. I like fish and chips. But fish and chips ice cream?
• And if you're eating Asian...

• Want to see the first Voyage of the Dawn Treader trailer in HD?  Here you go!
• Want to see the first The Smurfs teaser trailer?  Not here!!
• This happens a lot. There's a web site with absolutely gorgeous pictures of homes I wish we lived in. But I can't in good conscience link to it... because at the bottom of the page are a bunch of degrading, potentially harmful links. What a contrast. Yet to lift all the pictures would take too much column-inches... so here are a couple of favorites.

• Reader Berry Davis found some very pretty footage (vidage?) of slo-mo jumping food.
• I never knew any of this about Little Orphan Annie.
• Then... there are these.