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• Michael Geist is crunching the numbers over the US government’s copyright complaints against Canada.
• A loyal GOP supporter.
• Stations of the Cross uploaded to Thinker Labs
• Scott is bitter other church planters are cashing out and he hasn’t found any buyers yet :-)  Speaking of cashing out, here are things to think about before you write your book.
• Wikipedia has a new list of important emerging church figures on it.  Some Aussies, Americans, and U.K. on the list.  Thankfully they kept those Canadians off the list.
• Pernell is talking about the shifts that the Freeway is going through as it evolves and grows up.
• Rick Bennett on Dobson and global warming :: It has nothing to do with science, truth or theology. This crowd sees that a refocus on a different agenda will greatly affect their own bottom line. They will no longer be able to send out a scary letter about Liberal Agendas and how the family and nation are being destroyed knowing the dollars will fly in. They know that Evangelicals concerned with the environment and war are bad for business.
• 12 Shocking Facts About Christianity ::  the total cost of Christian outreach averages $330,000 for each and every newly baptised person.
• Emergent Village and Full Communion
• Brian McLaren thanks God for his enemies
• Former Saskatchewan Finance Minister speaks the truth on equalization :: It doesn’t sound like
• brandonomics :: The mixed strategy and success of Yahoo! and Google to brand their offerings
• Al Gore has a weblog.
• 11 ways to speed up your Mac
• Attention Amway shoppers, P&G’s logo isn’t satanist
• Cost of Iraq war?  The 82nd Airborne is no longer operationally ready.  Army officials concede that the unit is not capable of getting at least an initial force of several hundred to a war zone within 18 hours, a standard once considered inviolate.  The declining readiness of the brigade is just one measure of the toll that four years in Iraq — and more than five years in Afghanistan — have taken on the United States military. Since President Bush ordered reinforcements to Iraq and Afghanistan in January, roughly half of the Army’s 43 active-duty combat brigades are now deployed overseas, Army officials said. A brigade has about 3,500 soldiers.  Mapping the violence in Baghdad.
• How does Zimbabwae stay afloat? :: The government estimates the annual inflation rate at 1,700%, but Western economists believe the real figure is closer to 3,500%, and rising fast. For the average citizen, that would mean that a can of coffee today would cost about four times the price paid last week. Today’s morning bus ride to work might cost about double tomorrow — that’s if the bus company can find enough gas to fill the tank, and the cash with which to buy it. Harare stores now post prices in U.S. dollars, to save their staff the hours of work involved in calculating prices in Zimbabwe dollars that change daily.
• Why does home ownership cause unemployment? :: Wherever people seem particularly keen to own their own homes—as in the United Kingdom, Spain, and some U.S. states—employment suffers as a result. English economist Andrew Oswald has shown that across European countries, and across U.S. states, high levels of home ownership are correlated with high levels of unemployment. More conventional factors such as generous welfare benefits or high levels of unionization don’t explain unemployment nearly as well as the tendency to own houses. Renting your home and staying flexible do wonders for your chances of always finding an interesting job to do.

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