Recent output from the Linux "fortune" command:

The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of the world's luxuries, king by the grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented. -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

Twain had obviously never tried mango or fresh pineapple, and his recollection of Genesis 3 was a little off as well! :-)

Here is comfort, high as heaven, stronger than death! What! Mercy for all? for Zaccheus, a public robber? for Mary Magdalene, a common harlot? Methinks I hear one say, “Then I, even I, may hope for mercy!” (from Wesley's sermon "Salvation by Faith", III.6; quoted in Derek J. Tidball, Builders & Fools: Leadership the Bible way. Leicester: Inter-Varsity Press, 1999, 31).

"It is impossible for us to break the law.  We can only break ourselves against the law."  -- Cecil B. deMille

When i got to the genealogies in Chronicles in my daily Bible readings, i figured i'd try to have some fun with them, since i usually find them rather dry. So i decided to use the automatic graph drawing package graphviz to create a visualisation of the data in the genealogies. The results so far, which can be seen in the attached diagram, are quite interesting.

Here's the 2nd part of the study on the background to the Bible.