Cult of Personali-tea

Several folks linked last week to this story about a woman in the middle east arrested for joining a cult that worships a giant teapot.

While the lack of religious freedom is sad, I have to feel that the majority of folks linking to it were doing so more because they found the idea of a cult of people paying worship to a teapot to be shockingly newsworthy.

Evidently, none of these people have been to Siggraph. :-)