Links to places where the gospel meets culture
Man sees two women are about to get hit by a truck. Man pushes the two women out of the way of the truck. Man gets struck by truck instead. Man lives! Man is then charged with jaywalking.
College acceptance letters are getting fancier. College rejection letters? They're getting colder.
NPR has put together an intriguing little piece about Twittering. Among many positive things, social media strategist Andy Carvin and senior news analyst Daniel Schorr also point out two significant dangers of Twittering: (1) it has blurred the line between audience and conversation, and (2) it has caused some people to call into question the important task of editing. (If you're like me when it comes to NPR - you're more of a listener than a reader - click here.)
Speaking of NPR, they also recently ran a piece about the efforts of Christian filmmakers to take the world of cinema by storm.
In the latest you've-got-to-be-kidding-me news, divorce via text messaging is quite popular among Muslim men.
Amazing things continue to happen in China.
Boy, we Americans sure do love to multi-task, don't we?
How does one define irony? Try this: The economy falls apart because of profound greed in America. So, what does the Financial Post identify as the lone "bright spot" of the battered financial world? The opportunity to capitalize on the battered financial world! Good call, FP! We're falling apart at the seams because of greed - what a great time to be?greedy!
I ran across a stat that was getting a bit of buzz late last week: "College students were asked to name their favorite book. Those who said 'The Holy Bible' had the lowest average SAT scores (980)." Well, I tracked down the source. Though I suspect this is going to be quoted by some folks, the data is not very reliable, my friends. Read all about it here. It's actually quite embarrassing that The Wall Street Journal actually thinks the little project is worthy of being a story.
Also in the world of stats: a new study indicates that when given the choice, most Germans would "ditch their spouses and do without a car in a heartbeat if they had to choose between having them or Internet access or a mobile phone."
And finally, perhaps you've heard about the Dutch artist who recently purchased a telephone number that people can call to leave messages for God. No kidding. But s it really all that encouraging to hear the outgoing message the guy put on the machine: "Hi, you are speaking to God. I'm not in right now, so leave a message after the beep"? Call me crazy, but it's sort of a downer to think that God's "not in" right now?
Posted by Brian Lowery at 3:41 PM on March 4, 2009
