A while back, in that brief span of time when it seemed like everyone had a Xanga, one thing I found interesting on those blog entries was the ‘currently reading’ and/or ‘currently listening’ section occasionally included in posts. So, by way of tipping my hat to that feature…
Currently Reading:
Divine Conspiracy (Dallas Willard): I recently finished [...]
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iTunes Genius that is…a reflection on true genius will need to wait for another day.
When I first heard about the Genius feature in iTunes, I was excited. It seemed like a promising feature, and it certainly is…but in my experience, it’s still only that – promising.
On a scale of ‘Completely Clueless’ to ‘Near Genius’, I [...]
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Some concerts are just plane fun, others moving and still others profound in that they seam to offer an incredible insight into the artist. A few weeks ago I set sail for Louisville Kentucky to catch a Bon Iver show which definitely fit into this later category. The show was simply stunning; a small, [...]
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like any running pain it hurts most when you stop and try to catch your breath. Life is beautiful as long as the trees are whizzing on by; drowning in a sea of colour a chest strains and the ropes are pulled ever tighter.
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Standing in the middle of Cheeseman Fellowship Hall;
I hold the video camera as tears spread on everything bagels and images of those Haitian’s and there presentless Christmas scare the living gosh golly bejebishites out of any good god fearing republican who never drink the water but will pass the plate to drop the bombs of [...]
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DVD in Firefighter’s Coat Blocks Bullet
Notice the location: ‘a Waffle House restaurant…’
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Another one from the Freakonomics Blog:
Is MySpace Good for Society? A Freakonomics Quorum
This one caught my eye since I am sort of a MySpace / Facebook ‘hold-out’ as they say (though I did have Facebook in the early days for 6 – 8 months or so).
It’s a sampling of comments from various thinkers on the [...]
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These days, I’ve been reading the Freakonmics Blog off and on. Tends to be fairly interesting – the content varies with posts from the two book authors, posts from guests, and usually a handful of links every day or two.
Today, they provided a link to the article below – it highlights research questioning the idea [...]
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In that time of year when film, music, and book critics are compiling their ‘best of’ lists for 2007, I decided to compile a little list of my own (not to be too presumptuous).
One slight deviation from the norm – this list represents the music, films, and books that I came across in 2007, not [...]
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One thing life needs is more awesomeness. It’s hard getting through the mundane tasks of buttering one’s corn, squeezing orange juice, spritzing with a lemon, and slicing a banana without a little help from the awesome power of carcinogenic, oil leaden plastic. Well thanks to modern technological advances the power of plastics continues to make [...]
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