That’s me in the corner — apologies to R.E.M., ‘Losing My Religion’<\/P>\n Are you highly religious and anxious about the fast pace of technological change? Simply text your guru for personalized blessings<\/A> (via Boing Boing<\/A>):<\/P>\n <\/P>\n … the channel has empanelled 40 spiritual leaders. “We get 20,000 SMS every day from all kinds of viewers,” says Gupta, who has tied-up with 85 cellular operators…<\/BLOCKQUOTE>\n Or launch a satellite<\/A> so you know when to pray:<\/P>\n <\/P>\n There is already some criticism from religious officials in Saudi Arabia, which uses the lunar calendar. “The shape of the moon has to be seen from the ground,” said Osama al-Bar, dean of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Institute for Haj Research in Saudi Arabia.<\/BLOCKQUOTE>\n Osama the Hajj researcher has decreed it, so thus it will be.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" That’s me in the cornerThat’s me in the spotlightUpgrading my religionTrying to keep up with youAnd I don’t know if I can do it… — apologies to R.E.M., ‘Losing My Religion’ Are you highly religious and anxious about the fast pace … Continue reading
That’s me in the spotlight
Upgrading my religion
Trying to keep up with you
<\/EM>And I don’t know if I can do it…<\/EM><\/P>\n… they were dubbed “bhajan-kirtan” channels, watched by the very old or the very bored… [Sadhana] has started an SMS service by which viewers can contact their favourite guru for blessings\/advice. So, if you want to know from Sudhanshuji Maharaj if it’s the right day to go looking for a job, all you have to do is type “7333” and “S SUD”.\n
The Organization of the Islamic Conference, the world’s largest Muslim body, said Sunday it plans to launch an $8 million satellite within two years to take pictures of the moon to find lunar calendar dates… “The satellite will have a fixed camera on board that will take highly detailed pictures of the moon and beam them back to earth…” A moon sighting committee in Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, frustrated millions of worshippers when it said it got the date wrong by a day for the peak of this year’s haj pilgrimage in January. \n