Second Kings, Chapter Two:
“From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. “Go on up, you baldhead!” they said. “Go on up, you baldhead!” He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.”
This funny (but crude and potentially not work-safe) article from the recently-good Cracked Magazine calls out the 9 baddest-ass Bible verses ever. Several I remembered (the sword in the stomach was an old, terrifying favorite), but a couple surprised me. BoingBoing is right, we need to get this book back into schools ASAP.
Also, when using strftime() to format a date in Rails, you can shorten month and day names simply by using lowercases like %b and %a instead of %B and %A.
I didn’t say this would be a useful post, just something I learned.
That was a great article in cracked. I can really identify with Elisha. Makes me want to read the Old Testament more.
I like how long it spends building up the tension between Elisha and the kids before the big resolution: “Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.”