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Thursday, April 03, 2014

Links to Your World, Thursday April 3

Coming Soon: The AromaFork, which will change the taste of your food by introducing interesting odors through your fork.

 

"What's your story?"

 

Actually, I think being a "professional namer" would be pretty fun.

 

Time for some spring cleaning: Decluttr will buy all your unwanted CDs, DVDs, and video games.

 

I liked "The Lost Art of the Unsent Angry Letter." I've written a few angry letters that ended up three-punched in a journal instead of mailed, and I've written a few angry emails where I ended up hitting the "print" button instead of the "send" button. This article says there's wisdom in doing so.

 

10 Ways to Be Outraged on the Internet

 

"God is not helpless among the ruins," Kay Warren said, quoting British Olympian and missionary Eric Liddell. Then she instructed attendees to turn to one another and take those words to heart by declaring: "God is not helpless among my ruins!" Kay Warren, speaking at the recent Saddleback conference designed to help churches address mental illness. Half of registrants were family members of someone suffering a mental illness. Beautiful report on a beautiful effort to adress unbeautiful circumstances.

 

"Having looked at both the despoliation of the earth and the evil in his own heart, Noah recognizes that mankind deserves God's justice. Noah's struggle throughout the film is to obey all that God asks of him. Portraying this inner struggle makes Aronofsky an ideal director for this project. Unfortunately, his directing style is otherwise unsuited for a two-and-a-half-hour epic like Noah." Summarizing Joe Carter's movie review of Noah. And Denny Burk calls it "the midrashiest midrash that ever was midrashed." I haven't seen it yet: Do you plan to?

 

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