Charlton Heston as Moses in The Ten Commandments.
Atheists' Ten Commandments
A competition for atheists to rewrite the Ten Commandments has produced this list:
1. Be open-minded and be willing to alter your beliefs with new evidence.
2. Strive to understand what is most likely to be true, not to believe what you wish to be true.
3. The scientific method is the most reliable way of understanding the natural world.
4. Every person has the right to control over their body.
5. God is not necessary to be a good person or to live a full and meaningful life.
6. Be mindful of the consequences of all your actions and recognise that you must take responsibility for them.
7. Treat others as you would want them to treat you, and can reasonably expect them to want to be treated. Think about their perspective.
8. We have the responsibility to consider others, including future generations.
9. There is no one right way to live.
10. Leave the world a better place than you found it.
Source: inquisitr.com
Nutty warnings
The warning on the Christmas antlers in Sideswipe (may cause cancer, birth defects and reproductive harm) is probably nothing to worry about, says Alistair Stewart. "California's Proposition 65 has led to the prescribed warning text being sprayed over everything in the state so it has become meaningless. There are stiff penalties for not displaying the warning if there is any risk, but no penalty for false warning ... so the obvious has happened. Sort of like the may contain traces of nuts warning that appears on non-nutty items - and is therefore no help at all for the genuinely allergic."
Writing wrongs
A Tauranga reader writes: "Your corrections and clarifications reminded me of a couple of items I saw in newspapers in Britain. A reference to a retired military officer being "a bottle-scarred warrior" was corrected with an apology in the following day's edition, saying the passage should have described him as "a battle-scared warrior". A correction to the correction appeared the day after that. My favourite correction was in a Hampshire newspaper of a misheard reply to a reporter's question while compiling a wedding report: 'It was incorrectly stated that the happy couple would be living at the bridegroom's father's house. In fact they will be taking up residence at The Old Manse'."
When two parking spaces aren't enough. Spotted at Countdown, Lincoln Rd, Henderson.
NZTA-Waka Kotahi has been locked in a dispute with the road builders.