First, it was a bevy of gay activists protesting the invitation to Rick Warren to lead the invocation at Barack Obama’s inauguration. Now atheists are suing to remove all prayers and references to God from the swearing-in ceremony. The effort is being led by Michael Newdon. But Scott Walter of the Beckett Fund for Religious Liberty says, “Newdow's lawsuit over the inauguration is a lot like the streaker at the Super Bowl: a pale, self-absorbed distraction. And anybody who looks at it carefully can see there's not much there.” (WaPo story)
The iPhone, which only launched its App Store in July 2008, has more than 10,000 applications, and they’ve been downloaded 300 million times. If you have an iPhone, leave a comment or send me an email and tell me your favorite apps.
“Facebook” pic (HT: Neatorama). The growing popularity of Facebook has an unintended consequences for young people who used to have the social networking website all to themselves: their parents are joining and befriending them! Story:
The Facebook group entitled "For the love of g*d — don’t let parents join Facebook" has 5,819 high school and college-aged members who want to stop the growing number of parents who are joining Facebook, the massively popular social networking site, from "spying" on them. [...]
"It’s really weird that nonstudents and parents use Facebook," said Emma Gaines, a Tufts University sophomore. "It makes me feel really uncomfortable that my older aunt has Facebook, because she says that she likes to check up on her teenage nieces and nephews and takes our pictures for her own use. That’s creepy."
Erin McCarley — a singer/songwriter whose work was featured this past week on Apple’s iTunes Music Store — is a Baylor alumna. Her song “Pony (It’s OK)” was the site’s Single of the Week. McCarley’s album, “Love, Save the Empty” has been among the top 10 most purchased albums on iTunes for the past week. McCarley, a 2001 graduate, married another Baylor Bear and now lives in Nashville. (HT: Baylor Proud)
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“Risk ignorance is now too risky.” The CS Monitor says state lotteries are suffering under the current recession.
“Scientists have discovered true love. Brain scans have proved that a small number of couples can respond with as much passion after 20 years as most people exhibit only in the first flush of love.” (Times)
Bart Ehrman is the author of the bestselling book “Misquoting Jesus.” He calls into question the authority of the New Testament as scribal changes over time have changed the documents. So can we trust the scripture? Bible scholar Peter Williams believes in the reliability of the New Testament and that Bart's prognosis is far too pessimistic. Listen to their debate here. (HT: Between Two Worlds)
“Traditionally, more people file for divorce in January than at any other time of the year because they decide to take action after a dysfunctional family Christmas.” (London Telegraph)
Mashup of inspirational lines from a bunch of flicks:
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