"Oh Wow! Oh Wow! Oh Wow!" Steve Jobs' final words, according to his sister.
"In a piece written for Rolling Stone 20 years ago this month, producer Brian Eno identified why the rock band U2 is singularly enduring and enervating. “Cool,” he wrote, “sums up just about everything U2 isn’t. The band is positive where cool is cynical, involved where it is detached, open where it is evasive.” For 35 years, rock journalists, culture’s self-appointed guardians of cool, have monitored U2’s ups and downs, smash hits and embarrassments. The relationship between critics and the band was fraught from the start, with their anthemic, highly emotive music winning them millions of fans but just as many skeptics. The rock of rebellion and decadence seemed allergic to a band this earnest, emotive, inclusive, politically engaged, and, worst of all, openly Christian. You couldn’t invent a more mock-worthy outfit" (The U2 Paradox).
London's Daily Mail: "Religious apartheid and social segregation is being taught to a growing number of Muslim youngsters in our towns and cities; an agenda, it seems, increasingly being reinforced by beatings and brutality." Yikes.
What Did Jerusalem Look Like in Bible Times?
"How can you make people better at sports? Tell them they’re using equipment that previously belonged to a professional athlete. No, really. A new study finds that golfers significantly improved their putting ability when they believed the putter they were using belonged to a celebrity golfer" (story).
Indiana twins give birth on same day in same hospital
Some Dares Need Turning Down: Friends of a 21-year-old dare him to try and fit in a baby swing. He takes the dare, gets stuck, and has to be brought to the ER to be cut out of it. He can be grateful the EMS who took him in didn't release his name. No such promises that he won't show up on social media, though.
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