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August, 2007:

Photo Friday: Insignificant

My submission for Photo Friday’s Insignificant.

10 Most Dangerous Toys of All Time

Radar Magazine offers up a list of the ten most dangerous toys of all time. For some reason I expected own more of them but I only owned lawn darts and Battlestar Galactica Vipers which shot real missiles. The only one of the list was the toy set made with uranium. via In 1951, A.C. [...]

Founders at Work

The book Founders at Work arrived in the mail yesterday and I dived right into it. The book is a series of interviews of founders like Blogger, SixApart, Adobe, Apple (Woz!), Hotmail, and a bunch of other startups that changed the way we live and interact. The underlying narative is: entrepreneurship is all about tactics, [...]

45 Amazing Blog Designs

All can be found here. via

Contextless Links

The Ikea Badge of Merit For a position only second in importance to the Prime Minister, the Canadian Curling Association names a new CEO Republicans, weary of fighting with Democrats, turn on one of their own. Live and Let Live: It is a process that can be characterised as the deliberate abstaining from the use [...]

On The Take

I finally read On the Take by Stevie Cameron the other day. I had bought the book years ago at a used book sale and had never felt motivated to read it before but I wish I had. As Amazon.ca says about the book When On the Take came out in 1994, it made author [...]

Attack Dogs of Christendom

Christianity Today on those websites to attack other elements in the church. David Aiken asks, “Is this how to bring grace and savor to a crumbling civilization?” The angriest websites are those belonging to small, but disturbingly visible, fundamentalist Protestant groups outraged that fellow Protestants appear to be holding out a welcoming hand to Catholics [...]

Truscott Aquitted

One of the best arguments for keeping the death penalty abolished in Canada The Ontario Court of Appeal has acquitted Steven Truscott of murder in the death of Lynne Harper 48 years ago, saying the conviction was a miscarriage of justice. In a ruling Tuesday, a five-judge panel unanimously decided to quash the conviction stemming [...]

The Dave King Road Trip

On Labour Day, Dave King will be in town and to celebrate some of us are hanging out at our place. If you want to join us, feel free. Some more stuff will be posted on the when and where later this week.

Legality

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Virus

Okay, it looks like I have a virus. Not my computer but me. Doctor suggested it may be a mild case of this but am waiting for more blood work and now I need some more sleep. I am also not ruling out the dog is somehow behind this in her effort to get more [...]

Wisdom Wants To Be Free

I remember reading with great interest about the idea of the Disseminary when AKMA and Trevor started posting about it a couple of years ago. As the idea evolved, I started to think more and more about new ways of theological education in my local context and in many ways, it influenced the formation of [...]

How Twitter Will Change How Business Communicates (again)

Robert Scoble on how Twitter is changing how we communicate with each other. Twitter’s basic idea has proven so popular that others have copied its premise and added features. Jaiku lets me include blog posts, my link blog, and more along with my mini posts. Pownce users can send files to one another, as well [...]

Poverty Shouldn’t Be A Life Sentence

Dick Cheney: Prophet

I wish he had shared this bit of incite with the current administration. via