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Song for the Weekend: Ingrid Michaelson and Greg Laswell

Hope this brings a smile!  May you love someone like this, and find love like this …
You see the light that I can’t see
You see the light in me

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Jamie Arpin-Ricci’s Review of Avatar

I saw it.  Liked it.  Briefly talked about it with the guys at Taco Bell afterward.  But that was pretty much it.  I moved on.
The blockbuster film by James Cameron, Avatar has broken all sorts of box-office records.  But for me, it was just … well, ok.  Great computer-generated visuals – we saw it in [...]

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Am I Addicted to Twitter?! The Oatmeal Poll

Created by Oatmeal
Leave a comment and share your level of addiction!

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Looking Forward to PBS Frontline’s Series: Digital_Nation

This preview has me hooked!  Will definitely be tuning in to this.
I think the Frontline series will be a critical look at our culture and I’m especially interested to watch in light of this question: how will we “do community” in an increasingly digital nation?

Christine Sine writes in anticipation of this series and what it [...]

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Triple Evils, Interrelated

Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both. Now, when I say question the whole [...]

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The Words of 2009

Single words, but they speak volumes. These are the words that encapsulate the past year.
New Oxford American Dictionary announced their word of the year, “unfriend.”  Webster’s New World Dictionary went with “distracted driving.”  Here’s my list of the quintessential words of 2009:

Bailout
Obama (multi-purpose word – proper noun, adjective, and even curse word for some!)
H1N1
Tweet
Facebook (as [...]

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The Christian Sub-Culture’s Newest Product

Coming in 2010 to your neighborhood Christian trinket – er, “book” – store:

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Wired for War: Thoughts on a Robotic Revolution

Previous advancements in the human capacity to kill have dealt with the how – how the system, machine, technique can go faster, further, or bigger.  The use of increasingly advanced robotic deals with the who – who is actually fighting our very human wars.  So says Peter W. Singer in this thought-provoking video:

He asks some [...]

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