Interesting Things From Around The Web

Jerusalem | Filmed in Imax 3D (by JerusalemGiantScreen) Really cool clip from an IMAX movie that is being made about Israel and Jerusalem.

» Sarah Palin's letter from God - latimes.com

This was pretty good.

The Making Of The King James Bible Part 1 (by AngelEyesz89)

This is really good BBC documentary on the making of the King James Bible.

» Futurist Ray Kurzweil Isn’t Worried About Climate Change | Mother Jones

Don’t often read Mother Jones but this was interesting. This I think will be the solution to the high and increasing cost of medical care.

» American Thinker: The Story of the Egyptian Revolution

Nice summary of what’s happening in Egypt by an Egyptian student.

God Wants To Answer Your Prayers (via goyomarquez) This was pretty good.

» Shooting for the Sun - Magazine - The Atlantic

Loved this article about Lonnie Johnson an engineer who has invented a new type of heat engine and is trying to get it off the ground. Here’s a quote: “In high school, a standardized test from the Junior Engineering Technical Society informed Johnson that he had little aptitude for engineering;”

» Defining Chutzpah and the Spirit of Tzedakah/Charity - Windows & Doors

Nice Chutzpah story. Chutzpah in approaching God is the point of Jesus parable of the importunate friend, i.e. the friend with chutzpah.

» The tea party warns of a New Elite. They're right.

Interesting article, here’s the quote that stood out to me:

“There so many quintessentially American things that few members of the New Elite have experienced…They are unlikely to have spent at least a year with a family income less than twice the poverty line (graduate school doesn’t count) or to have a close friend who is an evangelical Christian.”

Strange times we live in.

RSA Animate - The Secret Powers of Time (via theRSAorg)

Really interesting talk about how notion of time effects behavior.

» The Volokh Conspiracy » How Separation of Church and State Was Read Into the Constitution (Hint: the KKK got its way)

Interesting notes on Separation of Church and State from a law professor at Northwestern.

» The Inner Ring, by C.S. Lewis

One of my favorite C.S. Lewis essays.

This is too funny and too true. Yes Prime Minister - on Religion (via trevthedevd)

“ I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

— Pithy Prose: the Wit & Wisdom of Mark Twain

» There Goes the Neighborhood | The Weekly Standard

Well I hadn’t heard much about this movement.