This man makes his living scrounging for gambling tickets that others have discarded but actually have value. It's called "stooping," and the featured stooper in the story is named Jesus. If you're preaching/teaching/writing about Philippians 2 and can't find a way to use this, turn in your ordination papers....
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Emily Bazelon in Slate explains why kids self-destruct with cell phones and online. Good warnings here for parents of middle school and high school kids.
"Precisely because the gospel stands athwart all ethnic claims, the church cannot erect a new racial boundary," N. T. Wright argues in The Climax of the Covenant against this so-called two-covenant theology. "The irony of this is that the late twentieth century, in order to avoid anti-Semitism, has advocated a position (the non-evangelization of Jews) which Paul regards precisely as anti-Semitic." (CT's "All Israel Will Be Saved")
Holy Cow! “A calf with a white marking on its forehead in the approximate shape of a cross was born last week at a dairy farm in Sterling, a small rustic town on the Rhode Island border. Owner Brad Davis tells WFSB-TV he thinks the marking may be a message from above, though he's still trying to figure out what that message might be.” Yeah, get back to me when you’ve figured out what that message might be. Yeesh.
“I wonder what people are thinking of me right now?” said Matt Marquess, an employee at a public relations firm in San Francisco whose Twitter account was recently hijacked, showering his followers with messages that appeared to offer a $500 gift card to Victoria’s Secret. Mr. Marquess was clueless about the offers until a professional acquaintance asked him about them via e-mail. Confused, he logged in to his account and noticed he had been promoting lingerie for five days.” (NYT piece about malicious viruses invading Facebook and Twitter accounts with weak passwords. If you get some strange status updates from me, let me know!)
Having connection problems with your iPhone? (I have an iPhone.) This guy at the NYT says its more Apple's fault than ATT.
“When we examine the iPhone users’ arguments defending the iPhone, it reminds us of the famous Stockholm Syndrome - a term that was invented by psychologists after a hostage drama in Stockholm. Here hostages reacted to the psychological pressure they were experiencing, by defending the people that had held them hostage for 6 days.” (Interesting. The authors give the answers that iPhone fans give to 20 objections about the technological weaknesses of the iPhone.)
Austin came in 7th on the list for best tap water, but how Waco escaped the top ten list for WORST tap water I'll never know...
Art in My Coffee
Cool video of a motorcycle assembling itself:
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