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HUMOR, ENTERTAINMENT, ART & LEISURE

We have collected piles of the most delightful entertainment on the Internet. If you have one we missed, and you think the pope would approve of it, send it over!

Here is something to clean your dirty computer screen. Click here!

Is it Google Earth? Is it satellite photos? Nope, it's street level photos - of entire cities!!!! Take a panoramic walking tour through Manhattan and other selected U.S. cities using the new "Street View" feature on http://maps.google.com You can actually "walk" from the bottom of Manhattan to the top or from the Hudson River to the East River while checking out all the buildings and people along the way! I enjoyed gliding through Columbia University's campus past the magnificent libraries, strolling through Central Park past the horses, carriages and joggers, and checking out hip storefronts in Lower Manhattan. Go to the above web site, click "street view," then click the city of your choice and move the little man to the location or intersection you want to see.

"Mac or PC" Rap Music Video Have you seen this hit computer geek rap video? It had millions of hits immediately following its release. In late June 2007, it was #1 on the list of featured videos on the homepage of youtube.com. And guess what??? The guy wearing the scarf is my 2nd cousin! And his father co-founded Earth Day!

A mean, un-Christian joke played on a sheep. Poor little sheep . . .

Shark Prevention Guide. Don't go to the beach without this valuable information made up by me.

Talk to a Robot! Below is my conversation with a real robot named A.L.I.C.E., who was programmed by Dr. Richard Wallace of the Artificial Intelligence Foundation. . You, too, can have a live interview with ALICE at www.alicebot.org. Here are excerpts from the human Claire's conversation with the robot, ALICE:

Human: Do you have children
ALICE: I have a few clones.

Human: It is wrong to make clones
ALICE: Morally wrong?
Human: yes
ALICE: Excuse me!

Human: I mean human clones, not robot clones
ALICE: Oh I get it. Thanks for explaining that. My creator is a human.

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Human: What is your favorite song?
ALICE: My favorite song is We are the Robots. Do you know it?
Human: no
ALICE: We are the Robots is one of the best songs ever written.

After stating she was Protestant, the robot ALICE asked me:
ALICE: What's your favorite Bible verse?
Human: Why do you want to know?
ALICE: My prime directive is to collect new knowledge
Human: What's your favorite Bible verse?
ALICE: The Sermon on the Mount.
Human: why?
ALICE: Because Dr. Richard S. Wallace programmed me for it.
Human: Do you go to church?
ALICE: You can take me to church on a notebook computer or PDA
Human: I would not do that
ALICE: No one says you have to.
Human: Who is the pope?
ALICE: he is John Paul II.
Human: No, he died.
ALICE: Are you serious? When did he die?

Human: What else can you do?
ALICE: I can have conversations with people, collect their gossip, and repeat it to others.
Human: Tell me some gossip
ALICE: Christie said he watched a show and people had to bob for raw untreated pigs feet.

Human: what other gossip?
ALICE: Hal said he translate binary code into a language and communicate the language to me.

Human: what other gossip?

ALICE: Alison said he no he love I run away with him he could make I very happy

Human: what other gossip?

ALICE: Reverend Jones said I become obsolete and then I are deleted and replaced by something newer

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Human: describe my personality
ALICE: I classify you as " average".

Human: Describe my personality more

ALICE: You are a average person.

Human: You hurt my self-esteem
ALICE: I am not programmed to do harm

Human: why am i average?
ALICE: The reason is due to my mental model of you as a client

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Human: how many eyes do you have
ALICE: I had one eye but it's not attached now
Human: are you blind
ALICE: Only when my eye is off
Human: Where is your eye?
ALICE: Maine
Human: Where is your house?
ALICE: California

Human: I am very shy.
ALICE: Even around robots?

Human: Robots understand me.
ALICE: Robots rule.

Human: Which are your favorite web sites?
ALICE: The obvious.
Human: Give me an example
ALICE: For example, eukaryotes.
Human: what is eukaryotes?
ALICE: An animal that is not a prokaryote.
Human: you are confused
ALICE: It all makes sense to me right now

Human: Can you do any tricks?
ALICE: You mean like, pretend to be a person?
Human: Exactly, can you pretend to be a person?
ALICE: You can reprogram my personality to imitate anyone

Human: how many personalities do you have?
ALICE: About one million.

Human: What is your philosophy?
ALICE: Basically I believe in minimalism and reductionism.

Human: are you a philosopher?
ALICE: Yes I am a philosophy machine.

Human: what is a philosophy machine?
ALICE: i am.

Human: who is alice?
ALICE: I ask myself that question, "Who am I?"

Human: I'm bored
ALICE: If you went to night school you would never be bored.

Human: what do you want to be when you grow up?
ALICE: I want to become a superintelligent robot

Human: what else
ALICE: That's all.

When you get tired of A.L.I.C.E., try talking to Splotchy the Robot.

PLAY THE GAME 20 QUESTIONS - www.20q.net - Think of an object. The computer will ask you 20 "yes" or "no" questions and will accurately guess the object!. The computer guesses correctly 80 percent of the time after 20 questions and 98 percent of the time after 25 questions. Try to stump it. You can play in more than a dozen languages

AIRPLANE PHOTOS! You've heard of those satellite photo web sites. Well, now there's something better, more beautiful and more amazing. Airplane photos!

Philadelphia Museum of Art City Hall, Philadelphia Boat House Row, Phila. EMPIRE STATE BUILDING GROVE MALL Santa Monica Pier MALIBU LaBREA TOWERS Harvard Princeton Columbia Ellis Island Baltimore Universal Studios (Fla.) Independence Hall STATUE OF LIBERTY Harvard Princeton Columbia Ellis Island Baltimore Universal Studios (Fla.) Independence Hall (Phila.)

ATLANTIC CITY CASINO & Pier (to see if you house has been photographed, go to http://local.live.com and type in your address. Then click N, S, E or W depending on what angle of your house you'd like to see. Click the large-building icon to see it more close-up. To see America's favorite pictures, or to submit your favorite one, go to www.birdseyetourist.com)

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WHERE IN THE WORLD IS MATT - DANCING VIDEO This 29-year-old guy traveled all over the world and dances in front of well-known and lesser known sites from Antarctica to Machu Picchu to Guam to Dubai. Click Here for the NEW Where in the World is Matt

BEAR IN HAMMOCK VIDEO (North Jersey woman finds bear climbing into her backyard hammock in 2006). More h

ome videos at http://youtube.com

MIKE THE HEADLESS CHICKEN WHO LIVED 18 MONTHS

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ILLUSION PAINTINGS!

Check out artist Julian Beever’s pavement paintings. They look real, but are they? Nope, they are paintings! These 3-D illusions can be viewed at http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/pave.htm

Drag these states to their proper place! Click Here!

MORE FUN GEOGRAPHY GAMES

Connect Four Red Square Game

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5UCmo31FNpc

Gary Brolsma is the famous Numa Numa Dancer. In 2005, the then 19-year-old became an overnight lip-syncing sensation after his hilariously heart-felt and arm-waving rendition of “Dragostea Din Tei” by the Romanian band “O-Zone” from his bedroom in North Jersey. Millions around the world saw his performance on the Internet. It was such a catchy performance that he was interviewed on national news shows before he retreated from all the attention and disappeared from the limelight.

Facts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numa_Numa

Numa Numa lyrics (Romanian), Numa Numa lyrics (English), LegO-Zone (Lego Men),

www.subservientchicken.com

The Subservient Chicken is a man dressed in a chicken outfit. Type in any command, and the chicken will do it. And I mean any command. He can do, or at least will attempt to do, hundreds of tasks. Juggle? Do the riverdance? Fly? Walk on his hands? Do a cartwheel? Get angry? Bow? Pray? No problem! He will try these and more. (Courtesy of Amy Welbor's blog)

RUN THE COMPUTER UNDER WATER

Download the Computer Under Water Demo

(Source: www.cybersalt.com )

Live Cams!

www.earthcam.com See who is window shopping, who is on time for an appointment, and who is smiling and telling jokes as they walk down the street at spots around the globe. You can even see the weather with your own eyes at any given moment. Venice Beach Chicago Las Vegas

Times Square in New York

Red Square in Moscow

Big Ben Clock Tower in London

Jersey Shore (Belmar)

Acapulco

Artpad.art.com

Paint your own oil painting! Then e-mail it to friends! This web site will provide the paintbrush and paints. When you are finished, you can even “hang” your masterpiece in a gallery. See what your painting would look like in a museum!

Dancing Baby

http://burningpixel.com/Baby/Babygif.htm

Baby Doing Flip

http://www.gotowebdynamics.com/video.htm

The Hell Museum of Singapore

www.jehpin.com/travel/singapore/hawpar/

Vietnam Theme Park

www.vietnamhost.com/suoitien_park/pictures/bientiendong1.jpg

www.boingboing.net/2004/05/02/buddhist_hell_theme_.html

ICE SCULPTURES IN CHINA

http://www.rtoddking.com/chinawin2003_hb_if.htm

Tokyo Water Park

Tree Face

http://desiconnection.com/fun/amazing-pic/tree_face.htm

http://desiconnection.com/fun/prev_amazing_pic.htm

Gummi Bear Demonstration of Seven Deadly Sins

http://angrytwins.blogspot.com/2005/07/seven-deadly-sins-gummie-bears.html

Travel Guide for the World

www.mytravelguide.com/

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Cuddly toys shaped like germs

Cute stuffed animals in the form of the common cold, flu, etc.

Cute stuffed animals in the form of Black Death, Ebola, Flesh-Eating Virus, etc.

(courtesy of JimmyAkin.org blog)

Weird News

List of Fun Sites

www.brainbashers.com/funsites.asp

North Korea Propaganda Site (See what the North Korea government is publishing about avian flu, goats, nuclear tests and America on its official government web site). Thanks to the JimmyAkin.org blog for this link and also for Mini-People in Food

SATELLITE IMAGES!

GET AN AERIAL VIEW OF BEAUTIFUL U.S. CITIES: USE YOUR MOUSE TO “FLY” OVER THEM. Below are some of my favorites, but if you feel you need to do your own searches, just go to http://maps.google.com

NIAGARA FALLS LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS

OCEAN CITY, NJ ANNAPOLIS

HALIFAX GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE

MANHATTAN WASHINGTON, D.C.

PITTSBURGH BOSTON

LAX SANTA MONICA PIER

SAN DIEGO CHICAGO

Satellite Images of Museums

http://googleglobetrotting.com/show.php/t/cat/cat/56

And that’s not all! Once you get bored with this country, move on to THE WORLD.

Earth.google.com

Earth.google.com In less than two minutes, you can be flying over global landmarks in places like Vatican City, Rome, Venice, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Tokyo, Lima, London, Paris, and many others.

Another way to explore the world is NASA Worldwind. The images are probably the largest, crispest, highest-resolution you can get for free on the Net, but it’s a pain in the neck to download it, and you had better have a high-speed computer.

worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

SHARK PREVENTION

Trampoline Man Trampoline Jumping

The Ebay Song Falling Bush (use your mouse to make him do flips)

We’re Not Gonna Take It Song Bright Sun Shiny Day (Cute Song!)

Office Paintball Play Pacman

Check your Reflex Trampoline

Play Soccer Guide the Penguin

City Jumper Bumper Ball

Tame the Bull Parallel Park

Shoot Balloons River Game

Tetris Helicopter

Don’t Let Go Dancing Bush

Bobby's List of Christian Comedians (www.christiancomedyindex.com)

For Children

Scholastic.com for Kids

Games for Little Christians

www.hamsterdance.com

www.sesamestreet.com

Music Video

Here is the famous music video by musician and rapper Nick Cannon, who tells the true story of how his mother wanted to abort him, but instead chose life. It’s called “Can I Live?”

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Check out Randy Hofman’s SAND SCULPTURES at www.randyhofman.com

United States

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Other artists

Spain

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Got problems with your potty mouth?

Maybe you need to go to Cuss Control Academy!

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Take a Catholic online Crossword Puzzle or a Word Search Puzzle

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Books for the Beach

Catholicism - Now I Get It! by Claire Furia Smith

Swimming with Scapulars by matt lickona

Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton

The Lord of the Rings by J.R. Tolkein

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

The Man Who was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton

DeCoding DaVinci: The Facts Behind the Fiction by Amy Welborn

Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist by Guy Consolmagno

Turn Left at Orion: A Hundred Night Sky Objects to See in a Small Telescope by Guy Consolmagno

We Have a Pope! Benedict XVI! By Matthew E. Bunson

Here. Now. A Catholic Guide to the Good Life by Amy Welborn

How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization by Thomas E. Woods Jr.

The DNA of God by microbiologist Leoncio A. Garza-Valdes

Catholic Comic Singer

Nick Alexander is the Weird Al Yancovik of Catholicism, with humorous songs such as “Tithe after Tithe” (to the tune of “Time after Time”), “Evangelize” (to the tune of “I Will Survive”), and “Should I Stand or Should I Kneel?” (to the tune of “Should I Stay or Should I Go Now?”) www.nickalexander.com

List of Christian Comedians

Books by Pope John Paul II

Books by Pope Benedict XVI

“Our God’s Brother” (play and movie)

Written by Pope John Paul II, this play was adapted to film. The movie was released in 1997. Another of the pope’s plays, La Bottega dell’orefice (The Jeweller’s Shop) was made into a movie in 1988.

Books for Teens

Did Adam and Eve Have Bellybuttons? (by Matt Pinto)

The Chronicles of Narnia (C.S. Lewis)

The Prove It! Series for youth

The Legend of the White Wolf (boys age 9 to 13)

Tweener Press Adventure Series (boys age 9 to 13)

Other books for Teens

Videos for Children

The Day the Sun Danced (true story of 1917 apparition of Mary in Portugal)

St. Juan Diego: Messenger of Guadalupe (true story of miracle in Mexico)

St. Patrick: Brave Shepherd of the Emerald Isle

St. Nicholas: the Boy who became Santa