Son of Nate Saint creates flying car for ministry in Amazon
May 9, 2009
Video: Meet the ‘Cajun Crawler’
March 17, 2009
(HT: Pseudo-Polymath)
Why VHS is better than DVD
February 10, 2009
Not all screens are created equal
December 17, 2008
At Culture11, Alan Jacobs responds to an essay by Christine Rosen in which she laments the multiplication of various screens in the lives of we 21st century humans: computer, phone, TV, etc. (see ‘People of the Screen‘).
Jacobs says not so fast …
“There is no such thing as ‘the screen’; there are screens, plural, and they are not all the same.”
Read his entire post, in which he recommends Albert Borgmann’s work, Holding On to Reality: the Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium, to gain some proper perspective on new technologies.
Video: Every commercial flight in 72 secs
December 15, 2008
This reminds me of the words the angel spoke to Daniel (Dan. 12:4):
“But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”
Every commercial flight on Earth in 72 seconds (HT: Waving or Drowning?):
I’m dizzy!
December 4, 2008
We’re living in unique times, as this video demonstrates …
(HT: Justin Wise >> Rhett Smith)
y txt?
December 3, 2008
Motte Brown, a self-confessed texting neophyte, wonders …
“So what am I missing? Why exactly is texting so popular with the under 30 crowd?”
Traffic to prayer sites increasing
December 3, 2008
According to a post by Donna Freitas at Idol Chatter (which cites a NYT article by Allen Salkin):
“The best place to go for your prayers to be answered–especially if you happen to be Christian and/or are down on your luck as of late–is no longer a house of worship. Nope. Apparently, the best place for sending prayers is…the internet.”
Original NYT story: “If You Post It, They Will Pray“
Which only proves the Simpsons writers have been paid off by Bill Gates
December 3, 2008
Soulpatches on everyone … OK, that part’s pretty accurate.
See this 1984 Macintosh ad for background on Comic Book Guy’s iconoclastic gesture.
(HT: Rod Dreher)
Collide Show: Episode 3
November 19, 2008
03 - The COLLIDE Show from Collide Magazine on Vimeo.
Twitter-pated
November 18, 2008
At ChurchCrunch, read about a guy who’s using Twitter to turn his lights on and off.
[Insert technology joke or lamentation about the coming cybernetic apocalypse here.]
LifeChurch.tv launches internet campus tool
November 17, 2008
It went live Sunday, Nov. 16. You can see it here. Details from Tony Steward here.
The homepage for LifeChurch.tv is here.
From their site:
“LifeChurch.tv is a group of people from all walks of life who are being transformed by Jesus Christ. Every week, we join together around the world to worship God and to experience a relevant and powerful message, which teaches truths from the Bible. We are passionate about sharing the love of Christ by caring for each other and positively impacting our communities. Through satellite broadcasts that enable all of our twelve locations to be connected as one, LifeChurch.tv is a multi-site church that transcends metropolitan regions.”
Don’t laugh … you’ll be there someday
November 14, 2008
A humorous PSA (HT: Fred Butler):
See also (on a much more serious note) this poem by Elizabeth Jennings entitled “Old People’s Nursing Home”, posted at the Connexion. It starts:
“The men have ceased to be men, the women, women.
Or so it appears at first.
Here are children dressed for a meal, napkins in collars,
Here are meals from the nursery, here is the nurse.
So it appears to one who is half
Within this house and half outside.
“It will be calm,” someone suggested.
And so it seemed at first - tidy and calm
With the weather outside tidy and calm,
The carpets, pressed to the walls, forbidding noise,
No smell of a hospital, no smell at all,
And that is what I longed for first, the scent
Of a hyacinth bypassing sickness and pungent with growth,
Perfume thrust on the wrist and rising in clouds
In circles of foreign summers.
But there was no smell, not even the deathly sick
Odour of death. And then I realized …”
An atomized mission field
November 12, 2008
Rhett Smith links to a thought-provoking post by Chris Brogan, which concerns the sea changes occurring right now in journalism, economics, technology and society itself. Brogan, a new media guru of sorts, asks:
“When Google is the front door, the side door, the hidden key under the mat, the cash register, the finder of everything we ever lost, and everything we wished we’d lost, what comes next? When everyone is a newspaper, a magazine, a TV station, a radio station, a conference, a curator, an educator, a business owner, a shopkeeper, what do we have? When you and I are the creators, the consumers, and the collaborators of this media, what does this mean to us?”
Smith responds …
“In a ‘post media/postmodern world’ are we telling the right story effectively? Are we even telling the story? Is the gospel story more attractive than the other competing stories?”
Two letters
November 12, 2008
- One from Peter Wall to AT&T Wireless — Wall is unhappy with the free Wi-fi service they provide to iPhone users
- One from E. Scott Hart to all pastors of churches in the Southern Baptist Convention (HT: Mark at Sweet Tea & Theology):
“What is really so remarkable about the question of SBC decline is not the decline itself, but rather the simple answer that is so obvious no one will talk about with any seriousness openly in the SBC. The cause of the decline of the SBC is – YOU!”
