Eerie! A novella about a ship called the Titan which hit an iceberg and sank in the north Atlantic—published 14 years before the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank in the north Atlantic! (story)
Don’t try this at home, kids: A New Zealand teenager has survived with only minor injuries after falling 16 stories from his apartment.
In The Land Of Mao, A Rising Tide Of Christianity: Louisa Lim at NPR reports. Watch the slideshow that accompanies the 4 minute report.
It’s the projector wedding ring. This wedding ring will project an image of you and your loved one whenever you want to see it.
10 Common Errors “Spell Check” Won’t Catch.
“The escalating time, travel and financial demands of many competitive youth teams are pushing some parents over the edge. Many are pushing back, dropping teams mid-season, barring year-round competition for their children or refusing to make their kids available for holiday or vacation-time play” (WSJ).
The Best Months to Shop for Deals
“Across the country happiness peaks each Sunday morning, with a trough on Thursday evenings.” That’s according to a report on a study of the affective words in Twitter “tweets” tracked across a period of time. The report includes a fascinating video of the Twitter mood map.
“There may be a literal truth underlying the common-sense intuition that happiness and sadness are contagious. A new study on the spread of emotions through social networks shows that these feelings circulate in patterns analogous to what’s seen from epidemiological models of disease. Earlier studies raised the possibility, but had not mapped social networks against actual disease models” (Wired)
9 Undesirable Jobs That Pay Surprisingly Well
A college course for IT engineering students on how to flirt.
The Telegraph reports on the world’s strangest laws. Are they still strange if some of them make sense?
“During a year-long gambling binge at the Caesars Palace and Rio casinos in 2007, Terrance Watanabe managed to lose nearly $127 million. The run is believed to be one of the biggest losing streaks by an individual in Las Vegas history” (WSJ story).
Fla. church plans to burn Qurans on 9/11 anniversary. C’mon, can this really be helpful to our calling to be good neighbors and good communicators?
Posts at “Get Anchored” since last Tuesday:
The Latest Post from Film and Theology: Inception
“It's going to take some major concessions from everyone who isn't me”
The Things You Have to Do for a Diploma These Days…
Financial Literacy for High Schoolers
“Patterns in language offer a window on a culture's dispositions and priorities”
“The Internet records everything and forgets nothing”
“Worship has ONE object, TWO contexts, and THREE audiences”
Winning Ways: Christ’s Butler School
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