Easter Egg: Website 17-19 (God Hates Pandas)

Posted April 1, 2008, 12:01 a.m.

For Website 20, it was time to retire the egg that had served so well from Website 17 to Website 19. Intentionally badly-animated, the egg was inspired by pandas’ notorious inability to breed successfully—which leads to my theory that God hates pandas.

Here is the egg as it appeared (with a QuickTime video):

Website 17-19 Easter Egg.

Here is a remastered version of the video on YouTube (December 31, 2014):

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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If hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for.

Men talk most about health when they are unhealthy. So too they talk most about freedom when they are in danger of losing it or when they are enslaved.

Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel—only a means to an end.

Wall Street indexes predicted nine out of the last five recessions!

Suppose for instance, that the same body, which has the power of raising money by taxes, is also entrusted with the application of that money, they will very probably raise large sums, and apply them to their own private uses.

There is an implicit but astonishing arrogance in the idea that all the apostles, all the church fathers[,] and all the millions of ordinary Christians were fundamentally mistaken about Christ for nineteen centuries, and only a few theologians, sitting at their desks, in a very different culture, nineteen centuries later, finally understood him.

Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. It has come to you over a new route, by a new and express train of associations.

Searches are only permissible with explicit consent or probable cause. There is no such thing as implied consent.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Elected magistrates do not make the American democracy flourish; it flourishes because the magistrates are elective.

I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.

The brain is the palest of all the internal organs, and the heart the reddest.

No matter what the legislature may say, a man has the right to make his speech, print his handbill, compose his newspaper, and deliver his sermon without asking anyone’s permission. The contrary suggestion is abhorrent to our traditions.

Free peoples require alert, aggressive leadership and a socially and politically conscious citizenry. This is not easily maintained, but it is the price of freedom.

Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.

A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy . . . , but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

The supreme court under this constitution would be exalted above all other power in the government, and subject to no control.

Our life consists not in the pursuit of material success but in the quest for worthy spiritual growth. Our entire earthly existence is but a transitional stage in the movement toward something higher. . . .

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