Good ol’ Nedroid

Anthony Clark is a talented fellow.  His webcomic, Nedroid, is a basically inoffensive descent into the absurd; it describes the adventures and exploits of Reginald, who is a talking bird, and his rotund friend Beartato.

Consider this recent offering (click to enlarge and clarify):

Check them out; the archives stretch back quite a way, and there are always more being added.

Oh, again

I’ve always thought that one of the most considerate features of Noah’s Ark, when it comes to its status as an historical curiosity, is the incredible frequency with which it has allowed itself to be discovered at last.  The thrill of finally uncovering a missing link with our past is so often confined to only one or two persons, but the Ark will have none of it.

So, it is with great pleasure, but no great surprise, that I can announce that the Ark has finally been discovered – again:

A group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers said on Monday they believe they may have found Noah’s Ark – 4000m up a mountain in Turkey.

The team say they recovered wooden specimens from a structure on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey that carbon dating proved was 4800 years old, around the same time the ark is said to have been afloat.

“It’s not 100 per cent that it is Noah’s Ark but we think it is 99.9 per cent that this is it,” said Yeung Wing-cheung, a Hong Kong documentary filmmaker and member of the 15-strong team from Noah’s Ark Ministries International.

Be sure to read the whole thing.  The second best feature of the Ark’s constant rediscovery is the torrent of basically contentless news stories that attend the revelation.  Click the link above to be taken to what is functionally a short press release from the clearly disinterested Noah’s Ark Ministries International appended to a brief recap of the story from Genesis.  If you want things like footage and photographs of the find, or the commentary of established archaeologists, or hard facts of any kind, well… too bad.