Feel the need to test your faith or maybe lack of faith? Then try the Battleground God test [via Metafilter] where you're asked philosophical questions about beliefs and told if your beliefs contradict themselves. I made it through without any direct hits (ie obvious contradictions) and I only had to bite two bullets meaning I "responded in ways that required that you held views that most people would have found strange, incredible or unpalatable". That sounds about right. You can see that full analysis of my answers here.

Anil Dash gets interviewed about the Google Bar (there should totally be a GoogleBar somewhere that sold Evhead Bangers and Jason Shellen/Sutter/Goldman Balls) and then uses his blog to explain what he really meant to say. Could this be the end of misquotes and fabricated news stories? Blogging definitely gives you a cool way of being able to clarify certain things.

And speaking of Religion and Google it turns out that Wi-Fi + Google equals God, and apparently being hooked up to God leads to paranoia:

"In other words, once Wi-Fi is in place, with one little Internet connection I can download anything from anywhere and I can spread anything from anywhere. That is good news for both scientists and terrorists, pro-Americans and anti-Americans.
And that brings me to the point of this column: While we may be emotionally distancing ourselves from the world, the world is getting more integrated. That means that what people think of us, as Americans, will matter more, not less. Because people outside America will be able to build alliances more efficiently in the world we are entering and they will be able to reach out and touch us — whether with computer viruses or anthrax recipes downloaded from the Internet — more than ever."

Or maybe they'll be able to reach out and touch you with pictures of kitties and babies and educated opinions about politics and art, you paranoid freak.

I watched Beautiful Girls again last night and I enjoyed it every bit as much as I did the last time I saw it. It's one of those movies I can watch over and over again and talk about for hours. Which I think I did.

Poor Jay Mohr. How funny you were in Action, Go, and even Fastlane. And now you're hosting a reality show. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. But surprisingly enough according to Popmatters the show doesn't suck like a Hoover. The premise is that ten finalists have been chosen to live in a house together, so the audience can watch them work on materiale and get to know them. And the grand prize is they get to do a special for Comedy Central. So instead of watching people eat bugs or sing out of tune on this show we get to hear people tell jokes, which is to be preferred I think. Having read the article I actually hope this thing gets picked up over here as I've had it with all the bizarre dating and gross-out shows.