Links to Your World, Tuesday August 28

Famed treasure hunter Forrest Fenn wants you to find his treasure. He's filled an antique lockbox with more than a million dollars’ worth of "ancient figurines, a 17th-century Spanish ring, and turquoise beads excavated from a cliff dwelling near Mesa Verde, American eagle gold coins, gold nuggets, a vial of gold dust, two gold discs, and 'a lot of jewelry,' including rubies, sapphires, and diamonds. Among these wonders he included a copy of his own autobiography, rolled and stuffed into an ancient olive jar. Then he went “into the mountains north of Santa Fe,” Fenn says, and hid the lockbox, to be found by anyone who can decipher the clues embedded in a 24-line poem that ends: 'So hear me all and listen good,/Your effort will be worth the cold./If you are brave and in the wood/I give you title to the gold.'" He hopes you'll have as much fun looking for the stuff as he's had hiding it.

 

Here's an interesting study on what a sudden infusion of cash will do to someone. The guy seems to be losing his integrity as fast as he's losing the $100 million he won in a lottery. Closing paragraph: "Maybe he felt he didn't deserve it. Maybe the money made him feel invincible, like the badass he always suspected he was – or wasn't. Maybe he was trying to simultaneously redeem and punish himself. Maybe he broke beneath the burden of divine good luck. But here's the thing. Even though he has been arrested, sued, banned from bars, robbed, and ridiculed…and stands to lose thousands more in legal fees, Jack Whitaker has another 100 million or so to lose."

 

This family decided to live on Martian Time.

 

States with the least religious residents are also the stingiest about giving money to charity.

 

Stunning shots: Winners of the National Geographic Travelers 2012 Photo Contest

 

7 Essentials of a Healthy Hospital Visit

 

"We’ve all felt like throwing our phones one point — because of badly designed interfaces, lousy reception, shatter-prone screens or the rage-inducingly awful person we were just talking to. But what if you could hurl your phone as hard as you can and actually be rewarded for it? Welcome to the Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships, held each year in Finland." (story)

 

Here are some "modesty glasses" designed to keep men from gazing at women.

 

Timothy Dalrymple says it's true: Christians are haters--and here's what we hate.

 

Darryl Dash: "It's no wonder that church revitalization is rare. In each case, the turnaround took years, and the pain was significant. Both church planting and church revitalization are necessary, and both are costly and risky. But churches can be revitalized, and the cost, though significant, is more than worth it." Read the rest.

 

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