July 2011
1 post
WatchJerusalem | Filmed in Imax 3D (by JerusalemGiantScreen) Really cool clip from an IMAX movie that is being made about Israel and Jerusalem.
June 2011
1 post
Sarah Palin's letter from God - latimes.com →
This was pretty good.
May 2011
1 post
February 2011
2 posts
Futurist Ray Kurzweil Isn’t Worried About Climate... →
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... →
Nice summary of what’s happening in Egypt by an Egyptian student.
January 2011
1 post
November 2010
1 post
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;”
October 2010
6 posts
Defining Chutzpah and the Spirit of... →
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...
The Volokh Conspiracy » How Separation of Church... →
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.
September 2010
4 posts
“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never...”
– Pithy Prose: the Wit & Wisdom of Mark Twain
There Goes the Neighborhood | The Weekly Standard →
Well I hadn’t heard much about this movement.
Derek Sivers: How to start a movement | Video on... →
The importance of first followers…interesting.
Derek Sivers: Keep your goals to yourself | Video... →
This was pretty good. Lasts about 3 minutes.
August 2010
3 posts
Scientists Prove That Designer Knockoffs Turn You... →
This is pretty interesting.
“But the prestige of doctors is curiously unaffected by their lack of success....”
– The man who said we are machines | Andrew Brown | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Analytical concordance to the Holy Bible :... →
Young’s Analytical Concordance, a book I’ve been looking for online for quite some time, is available online. This is the book that contains the Hints to Biblical interpretation including this which Papa Hagin referred to: 70. Active verbs frequently express only an attempt to do the action,e.g.-Deut. 28. 68 ; Eze. 22.13 Matt. 10. 39; 17. 11 ; John 1.9, 29; 12.32; Rom. 2.4;...
July 2010
7 posts
Personal Health - What Do You Lack? Probably... →
More on the vitamin D front.
A Word of Thanks to Four Black Men and A Gun «... →
This was very good.
Amazon.com: Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus:... →
Like this story from this book: One day while walking on a road near Bethlehem, Judith watched as three shepherds converged with their separate flocks of sheep. The three men hailed each other and then stopped to talk. While they were conversing, their sheep intermingled, melting into one big flock. Wondering how the three shepherds would ever be able to identify their own sheep, Judith waited...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning →
This was helpful.
Reduce Stress By Changing How You Think -... →
Be not conformed to this world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.
http://www.mapsofwar.com/images/EMPIRE17.swf →
Pretty cool visual summary of the various empires that ruled the middle east.
June 2010
9 posts
Vitamin D May Fight Crohn's Disease →
Still more on Vitamin D.
Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Diabetes, Metabolic... →
Still more evidence people need Vitamin D supplements.
Insufficient vitamin D tied to severe asthma... →
On the Vitamin D front.
Belmont Club » Whitewash versus Paint →
Interesting discussion of Global Warming.
U.S. Identifies Vast Riches of Minerals in... →
I hope this turns out to be true.
The Girl Effect - Home →
This was pretty powerful and very well done.
May 2010
8 posts
Creative Think: Paradoxes of Creativity →
This was really good. I like the whole blog, actually.
Creative Think: Color Names →
This sounds about right to me.
Mount St. Helens, 30 years ago - The Big Picture -... →
Amazing photos of the Mr. St. Helen’s eruption.
East vs West: cultural differences by Yang Liu on... →
This was really interesting. I wonder what this says about how we interpret the Bible. There are some scriptures we read as individual scriptures but could just as easily be directed to the group.
How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online? →
Pretty intersting breakdown of how much musicians get paid per song via different internet methods.
Life-Saving Lessons From the Nashville Floods -... →
“Here are some tips to live and drive by:
-One foot of moving water can sweep away almost any sedan.
-Two feet of water will sweep away a heavy pickup truck.
-If you’re driving and the flood waters begin to rise around you, bail out of your car quickly and get to high ground. If the water around you is too swift and high ground is the top of your car, then get up there. This...
April 2010
17 posts
Brazil Official Recommends Sex for Blood Pressure,... →
Brazil’s Minister of Health has created a stir this week by suggesting that to get healthier, his country’s people try to have sex five times a week. Hmmm… maybe I should forward this to Becky.
Why Carrying an Extra 10 Pounds Might Not Hurt -... →
From the good news Dept. “And it can make you look younger, too.”
FFOZ | Magazine Articles : Yeshua's New Wine →
Really good interpretation of Jesus parable of new wine in old wineskins. Anyone who has ever tried to teach will instantly recognize the truth of this interpretation.
A Plague of ‘A’ Students | The Weekly Standard →
This was pretty funny.
CultureLab: Is God a mathematician? →
I like this by one of my favorite authors, Herman Wouk, of Caine Mutiny, Winds of War, fame, still writing at 95 years of age.