newish Da Vinci music encryption claim

Whether there is music hidden in Da Vinci's "The Last Music" is not something that i would venture to make a judgment on. (No, there isn't, but it would be very cool.) The statement by the man claims to have deciphered this rumored encrypted music though, bugs me.

"A new figure emerges -- he wasn't a heretic like some believe," Pala said. "What emerges is a man who believes, a man who really believes in God."

No. Frequently heretics do indeed believe in God. They are merely persecuted for believing anything different than someone with more worldly power than them. Heretics absolutely are not automatically atheists or agnostics.

He's a little late on the Dan Brown cash-in. His angle is that he's using bread loaves instead of the hands of the apostles. With the state of the internet, it's disappointing that no one bothered to put a clip of the composition embedded in the story, as it's only 40 seconds long.

it's not the exoskeletons. it's about where their knees are & number of "walking legs"

This makes as much sense as anything else the Christian fundamentalists spout about why New Orleans and coastal Mississippi were hit by Katrina. I've heard perhaps hundreds of times now that New Orleans was struck because of the Decadence Festival.

Their god's hatred for shellfish is just as explicit as homosexuality.

Oh yeah, but locusts are kosher.

via The Other 95%.

damnatio memoriae

Lucrezia Borgia's daddy was such an awful pope, that they destroyed art containing his image. Portions of a fresco might have survived though. Inquisitions are cool, but decadent philandering and indulgence means destroying art? Bastards!