Wordbattle is an engaging multiplayer word game. The concept is simple: the letters of a word are jumbled up, and whoever figures out the word first wins.

Although this elementary form of the game can be entertaining, game play really heats up when you face off against other people in “word battle”. Battle consists of a continuous series of scrambled words which come rapidly one after another as each word is solved. Solving words gets you battle points and gold. As you accumulate battle points, you gain levels, and your character becomes more powerful. Gold can be spent to purchase armour and weaponry to further improve your character. A special website shows statistics on all the players as well as a game log and item listing.

test your word fu Try the game now in the web-based chat client. After it loads up, simply type !word to get a feel for the game. If other players are around, you can start a !wordbattle for head-to-head action.

Full details on how to play and other cool features can be found in the game documentation.

I’ll see you on the battleground!

Answer these questions to find out just how Catholic or Protestant your are in your view of justification. Select one choice for each of the 10 questions. When you are finished with all the questions, press Score.

The originating site claims:

most Protestants are more Catholic than Protestant in their concept of justification

Catholics can use this little quiz to shed some light on just how orthodox they really are.

I scored 100% Catholic.

So Jaykul throws this link at me in IRC (which he is often wont to do). weewar.com. So I go check it out… and it’s pretty fun.

turn-based strategy game Weewar is a turn-based strategy game in which you control army units in an effort to eliminate the enemy before you are eliminated. (more…)

Just came across this site: Feminists for Life. Wow. Who’d a thunk it.

Here’s an excerpt from one of many articles on the site (The Bitter Price of Choice):

We focused on her swelling belly, not the discrimination that had made her so desperate. We advised her, “Go have this operation and you will fit right in.”

What a choice we made for her. She climbs onto a clinic table and endures a violation deeper than rape–the nurse’s hand is wet with her tears– then is grateful to pay for it, grateful to be adapted to the social machine that rejected her when pregnant. And the machine grinds on, rejecting her pregnant sisters.

Following is a forum post I made on January 9, 2007 as a rebuttal to another post.

I’m a bit surprised that none of you replied to this post of drifting_along. Before I begin, let me state that I did see drifting_along’s disclaimer that (s)he is not pro-choice.

(1) As only women can get pregnant, and therefore only women have abortions, a male legislator has no right to vote on an abortion-related law.

The Catholic Church, by virtue of its divinely appointed authority and moral infallibility, has every right (indeed, is obligated) to make pronouncements on moral matters as grave as abortion. A Catholic legislator, whether male or female, ought to be free to vote according to his or her conscience.

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