You can be Jewish and study karate (link roundup)

You can be Jewish and study karate via these sites.

And a few more links:

1. Relatedly, Neil Gaiman responds to an article asking Why There Is No Jewish Narnia.

2. Reporters hired by the Church of Scientology to investigate the St. Petersburg Times express disappointment with the way their report is being portrayed by the Church. Via.

3. I haven't forgotten to announce the winners of last months two giveaways, I've actually contacted all the winners, but I'm waiting to hear back from two people. If I haven't heard from them by 5:00 a.m. this Friday, I'll pick two substitute winners.

*Previously: Advertisement for Chuck Norris' Action Jeans.

*Buy karate patches at eBay.

Plush Xenu

Plush Xenu by Cupco on sale for $65 each.

*Previously: Newspaperman reminisces about the Scientology spy.

*Buy Battlefield Earth toys at eBay.

Watch Manu Ginobli knock a bat out of the air and then ... (link roundup)

A bat flew into San Antonio's arena. 1. Manu Ginobli knocked it right out of the air with his bare hand. 2. He handed it to a security guard. 3. The guard accepted it in his own bare hand.

And a few more links:

1. A theory that people kiss because it allows a swapping of germs that gives the woman a chance to build up an immunity to germs that might otherwise cause miscarriages. Via these sites.

2. The Dianetics & Scientology Holiday catalog. Via.

3. "Toyota has created a new plant species designed to offset the CO2 created by its Prius assembly operations." Via.

*Previously: Real life Andromeda Strain.

*Buy NBA bobbleheads at eBay.

Horror novel written on toilet paper (link roundup)

Genius. Video game companies pay a premium for exclusive content. Why not toilet paper makers? Koji Suzuki was commissioned to create a horror novel to be printed on toilet paper. More details here. Via.

And a few more stale links:

1. Fun ads - - can you spot the unicorn and Superman?

2. It's now illegal to smile on your driver's license photo in Arkansas, Indiana, Nevada and Virginia.

3. Rainbow zombie animated gif.

4. Supposedly the Church of Scientology has been banned from making edits to Wikipedia. Via.

*Previously: Rainbow-farting unicorns to star in Diablo III.

*Buy Battlefield Earth toys at eBay.

Newspaperman reminisces about the Scientology spy working at the paper

Part of a much larger article about the St. Petersburg Times’ Clearwater Sun newspaper, Mike Pride reminisces:

Besides their secretive ways, two things made covering the Scientologists hard. First, they were confrontational and unpleasant (Hubbard’s doctrine described journalists as "Merchants of Chaos"). Second, our city desk clerk was a Scientology spy. We wrote nearly 200 stories during the year after we disclosed the Scientologists’ presence, and they always seemed to know what we were up to.
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We knew the newsroom had been infiltrated, but we never guessed the spy was the friendly, efficient, sympathetic "June Phillips." We learned this only years later from FBI files.

Read the whole thing. Via.