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Tuesday, August 02, 2011

Links to Your World, Tuesday August 2

A teen's worst nightmare: Student driver crashes into DMV office.


Is the tooth fairy getting stingy?


Here's the REAL reason Google+ will beat Facebook: Circles keep you from having to wade through status updates of people who say, "Just saw Cowboys and Aliens--Don't know what I think of it," or "That was a great bowl of cereal today!" Here are 27 Circles you can use to rein in the most annoying social networkers.


Good advice for tweeting here. I need to crank down my practice of tweeting every profound quote I run across. Any Twitter violations you need to repent of?


Or you could just read "Chatting with Thoreau About Twitter" and decide to never tweet again....


"Turns out that "Friends" had lots of friends; splitsider.com found the 6 characters had 85 on-screen sexual partners during the 10-seasons" (@JamesEmeryWhite)


Ed Stetzer suggests 3 reasons why so many in the media were ready to tie Anders Behring Breivik to Christianity, particularly right-wing Christianity, following the mass murder in Norway that Breivik is accused of conducting.


Also, two of the best quotes from all the commentary last week:

James Taranto: "What do Barack Obama and Anders Breivik have in common? If you don't know they're Christian, liberals get enraged."

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He was a flaky extremist who might as well have claimed to be fighting for the honor of Hogwarts as for the cause of Christ" (Philip Jenkins, a Pennsylvania State University professor who studies global religion and politics)


Here's an $8 million iPad 2 made from a T-Rex’s thigh bone splintered and shaved into Ammolite sourced from Canada (a rock which is over 75 million years old). The 'Home' button is a single cut 8.5 carat flawless diamond.


How exercise keeps the brain fit




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