Archives for October, 2006
Contextless Links
- Thirteen Scariest Americans :: Rick Warren made the list. Gives you an interesting view about how the far left sees evangelicalism in the United States. “Warren, 52, who has PowerPointed the way to salvation for President Bush and Rupert Murdoch as well as Coca-Cola and Ford, says he’s not right-wing or left-wing but rather “for the whole bird.” And, in fact, this may be true, as long as that bird is heterosexual, anti-abortion, gay marriage, embryonic stem cell research, euthanasia, “the tyranny of activist judges,” and is completely committed to Christ.”
- The lamest edit wars on Wikipedia
- Interview with Michael Lewis about the Blind Side :: “The vast majority will not go to the NFL. These are the numbers—there are a million high school football players in the country, roughly fifty-five thousand of them will play college football. And a thousand of those will have some kind of professional contract, of whom just a couple hundred will make enough money to have careers. So you are talking about a winnowing process that’s brutal. However, the whole system is premised—not the million to fifty-five thousand—but of those fifty-five thousand college football players, there is some large number of them who are sustained by the hope that they are going to be professional football players and are not making other provisions for themselves.”
- A free accounting program from Microsoft :: Designed for American small businesses and the price is right.
- The best of the best Web 2.0 websites
- Darren Friesen showed this to me but Blockbuster has a cool website to help you host your own independent film festival in your own home.
The Call to an Ancient Evangelical Future Conference
The conference is now onlineCultivate :: Community
Over at Resonate Audio, we posted the last of the Cultivate Gathering series and features Pernell Goodyear and Melissa Burleigh from the FRWY.ca speaking about community .
Technorati Tags : Cultivate+Gathering, Resonate, FRWY.ca, emerging+church, community
ODEO Player
As some of you know, Resonate is using ODEO to host and power our podcast Resonate Audio now. They have a great flash plugin that we had been using making it easier for you to listen to the podcasts. Unfortunately their flash player isn’t working that well so we took it off the site for now. You can still click on the link or listen to it in iTunes or My Yahoo! or any other tool and it sounds fine. Sorry about the technology problems.
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Contextless Links
- From a dry-as-dust economist such as Sir Nicholas Stern, the apocalyptic language is startling. He warns that, without action to control global warming, we risk disruption to social and economic activity “on a scale similar to those associated with the great wars and the economic depression of the first half of the 20th century”. More on the politics of the issue from the Times Online.
- David Remnick interviews Senator Barack Obama and posts the transcript on the New Yorker website. Audio here. Is it too soon to say “Obama for America”.
- Scott Rosenberg interviews Steven Johnson
- Kester Brewin’s book, The Complex Christ is coming to America as Signs of Emergence. Kester’s new blog reflects the new book title and is now here.
- IKON’s new website is a wiki. Cook idea.
- A History of SixApart
Jared Siebert in town
Last night those of us from the Church of the Exiles core group went out for dinner with the Life Cycle Project’s Jared Siebert. Jared was part of the team that planted the Next Church in Kingston and now working for the Free Methodist Church in Canada helping churches do whatever it is that they do.It was a spirited discussion as it always is when Jared comes to town but we were able to have some good discussions about what some of our next steps need to be as a community.Wendy took some photos and posted them in the brand new Church of the Exiles photo pool on Flickr.
Technorati Tags : Church+of+the+Exiles, Saskatoon, Jared+Siebert
Reading Scripture with the Church
A package from Baker Books arrived the other day and in it was Reading Scripture with the Church: Towards a Hermeneutic for Theological Interpretation, a book by AKMA, Stephen E. Fowl, Kevin Vanhoozer, and Francis Watson.Contextless Links
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Dan Hughes photos from the 2006 Emergent Gathering
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PC Magazine reviews Six Apart’s new blogging tool Vox and they like it.
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Scot McKnight on what is the emerging church
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NHL94.com :: Online version of what may be the greatest video game of all time
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Jonny Baker has written, Worship as Bedazzlement
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IDEO’s urban planning project :: Can its “Smart Space” practice shake up the lumbering world of infrastructure, zoning, and public process? US News offers up another profile of IDEO
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Are whites the forgotten underclass? :: The second problem is that unskilled whites tend to go into the wrong line of work. Many toil in factories: in 2001 white British men comprised 89% of the overall workforce but 93% of the manufacturing workforce. Unfortunately for them, the sector has been in long-term decline. Manufacturing now employs just 18% of all male workers, down from 30% two decades ago. Ford, which employed 30,000 workers at its Dagenham car factory in the early 1970s, now requires 4,000—and new recruits for its engine plant are expected to have three good GCSE s, in maths, English and a science.
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The Starbucks Aesthetic :: Yet the chain is increasingly positioning itself as a purveyor of premium-blend culture. “We’re very excited, because despite how much we’ve grown, these are the early stages for development,” said Howard Schultz, the chairman of Starbucks. “At our core, we’re a coffee company, but the opportunity we have to extend the brand is beyond coffee; it’s entertainment.”
Church of the Exiles E-Newsletter
Set your clock back (unless you live in Saskatchewan)
Saskatchewan doesn’t use daylight savings time.
The switch to standard from daylight time happens in the wee hours of Sunday
morning except for anyone living in Saskatchewan, Southampton Island in Nunavut,
several communities in northwestern Ontario and a few pockets of British
Columbia where standard time is used year-round.
Why? Apparently people think it would be too traumatic for our cattle if their feeding time change. If that is true, just import some smarter cattle in from Alberta and Manitoba. Of course it isn’t our cattle that aren’t smart enough to switch, it is the voters in the province. Anyways, Saskatchewan is now on Manitoba time as of midnight tonight. The cows may be happy but literate people are not.
That the end of my rant until spring when I get to do it again.
What is a duvet and why do we need a cover
Yesterday the flyer from Jysk came to our house and Wendy noticed that they had bed in a bags for really cheap. So today we went over and looked around and all they had were stuff that only Martha Stewart would like and then only when she was in prison. So we spent some time looking at duvets and then I was told that we needed a duvet cover to which I replied that comforters have gotten this far in our marriage, why not stick with those. That lead us to Winners to which I mistakenly decided to go into there with Wendy. As I walked in I couldn’t help but realize how sad most of the men looked and how a large percentage of the women shopping there looked and dressed alike.
After we picked out a fleece blanket for the bed, I was off to Starbucks for coffee where I ran into my cousin Cathy Johnson where of course I didn’t notice her. I don’t know what it is with that Starbucks but when I go in, I am thinking about one thing. Wonderful, bitter, caffiene loaded coffee. About 75% of the time I run into someone, often from Lakeview Church and I completely miss them. Sometimes going in, sometimes going out. Of course I missed Cathy and her coffee drinking partner, Marlene. The reason that I am pointing this out is that if I ever walk by you while going into Starbucks, a) you aren’t alone as I seem to be oblivous to everyone b) it isn’t intentional and c) I may have a coffee related addiction.
Of course I had the extra distraction of knowing that I was in Winners and was wondering if my soul was crushed like so many of the men I saw shopping with their wives.
Missing contextless links
A small user error lost the contextless links the other day. Working at restoring them asap.
Worst Congress Ever?
Will Willimon is now blogging
The Northern Alabama Bishop for the United Methodist Church and one of my favorite authors, Will Willimon (he co-wrote Resident Aliens) is now blogging. Thought some of you might be interested in reading along.
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Good news
For those of you who are Dilbert fans, Scott Adams has focal dystonia and spasmodic dysphonia, diseases that has made it impossible to talk or draw. He overcame the drawing issues and today was able to talk for the first time in a long while by doing what any geek would do, he hacked his brain.
My theory was that the part of my brain responsible for normal speech was still intact, but for some reason had become disconnected from the neural pathways to my vocal cords. (That’s consistent with any expert’s best guess of what’s happening with Spasmodic Dysphonia. It’s somewhat mysterious.) And so I reasoned that there was some way to remap that connection. All I needed to do was find the type of speaking or context most similar – but still different enough – from normal speech that still worked. Once I could speak in that slightly different context, I would continue to close the gap between the different-context speech and normal speech until my neural pathways remapped. Well, that was my theory. But I’m no brain surgeon.
The day before yesterday, while helping on a homework assignment, I noticed I could speak perfectly in rhyme. Rhyme was a context I hadn’t considered. A poem isn’t singing and it isn’t regular talking. But for some reason the context is just different enough from normal speech that my brain handled it fine.
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick.
Jack jumped over the candlestick.I repeated it dozens of times, partly because I could. It was effortless, even though it was similar to regular speech. I enjoyed repeating it, hearing the sound of my own voice working almost flawlessly. I longed for that sound, and the memory of normal speech. Perhaps the rhyme took me back to my own childhood too. Or maybe it’s just plain catchy. I enjoyed repeating it more than I should have. Then something happened.
My brain remapped.
My speech returned.
Not 100%, but close, like a car starting up on a cold winter night. And so I talked that night. A lot. And all the next day. A few times I felt my voice slipping away, so I repeated the nursery rhyme and tuned it back in. By the following night my voice was almost completely normal.
When I say my brain remapped, that’s the best description I have. During the worst of my voice problems, I would know in advance that I couldn’t get a word out. It was if I could feel the lack of connection between my brain and my vocal cords. But suddenly, yesterday, I felt the connection again. It wasn’t just being able to speak, it was KNOWING how. The knowing returned.
Technorati Tags : Dilbert, Scott+Adams
Our Cabin Weblog- Recently listened to music
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- Recently additions to my library
- Messy Faith: Daring to Live by Grace by A. J. Gregory October 28, 2008
- Rediscovering Church: The Story and Vision of Willow Creek Community Church by Lynne Hybels October 26, 2008
- The Teeth of the Tiger, A Novel by Tom Clancy October 26, 2008
- The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You by John C. Maxwell October 26, 2008
- The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy October 26, 2008
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