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The following is a quote from Charles Spurgeon:

I love this ... "The Earth has issues...."
Anyway, check out the new joint venture between Google and Virgin, called Virgle. That's right - Virgle. Wow.

This article is an interesting read - it says that the world's largest publisher of Bibles is in China, and produces the Scriptures for the growing Chinese church. Neat stuff!

In this great blog post, Al Mohler describes the outrage of some parents when a school superintendent banned sexually explicit dancing at a school dance. Most parents agreed, but a vocal minority took the students' side and said that their kids should be able to "dance and dress the way they want to."

When we exclude God from the marketplace, moral ambiguity becomes the norm. When parents question authority and join their children in rebellion, it shows what a lost world results when there is no anchor for what defines morality and ethics. An interesting, if not worrying trend.

This is an excellent article posted by Phil Johnson over at the Pyromaniacs by Dorothy L. Sayers, one of my favorite authors, a friend of C.S. Lewis, a translator of Dante, and a Christian. Please read it. Thanks for posting it, Phil.

This is the craziest thing I have ever seen. How these guys manage to do this without turning into a greasy spot on the rock wall is just amazing.

You can see from my pictures on the right that we had the privilege of going to view the launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery for mission STS-120. My best friend Chuck Parker's college roommate at West Point was Doug Wheelock, and Doug just returned from spending 16 days in space.

This is a YouTube video about people that believe that in 20-40 years, we'll be able to upload our brains into machines and essentially live forever. Lots of interesting scenarios abound, but it raises ethical questions that become evident in this video once someone asks the question - won't we over-populate the earth?

Of course, the elites become the ones to either kill people off or prevent new ones from coming into the world. Sounds like an authoritarian world, if you ask me.

I saw this story when I was at the gym exercising - evidently Google is blocking ads that are critical of moveon.org. Here's the story:

Google Bans Ads That Criticize Far-Left Moveon.org

Of course, businesses are allowed to have political agendas. Google just has one that it pretends has something to do with trademark rights, while it accepts ads all day long critical of Microsoft and other companies with trademarked names.

Wierd.

I found this friendly poster in a conference room at work - notice anything missing?

I couldn't have said it better myself:

"Thank goodness we don't get all the government we pay for."
--- Will Rogers

OK, I acknowledge that I'm behind the curve on this, but I've just discovered del.icio.us. It's a cool way to park your favorite web pages on the Internet so others can see them and find them. I've placed a network badge to my links in the sidebar to the right, and if you haven't checked it out, I highly recommend it.

One of the things that really torques me is the slow upload speed on my BellSouth (now AT&T) DSL. Aside from the highly variable, but generally reliable download speeds, the upload speed on this is S-L-O-W. Regularly clocked at 37kbyes per second, as opposed to the 760k downlink speeds.

What's up with that? I understand that most of the consumers of this service are mostly surfers who don't need to upload much, but the world is changing. I keep my pictures on Flickr and it is painstakingly slow to upload to the servers.

Another fine post by my buddy Hugh ... he really does a great job of capturing the immenseness of the universe, and the God who made it all. You should read it.

I've long been a champion of teleworking and the virtual workplace. I recently ran across this article and accompanying video piece from ABC News: The Virtual Worplace

I have several friends that don't have offices - they work from home and go into the office for meetings, with the teleconference being the preferred venue for meetings.

Our place of work is still in the stone age - VPN connectivity is not available, and the CTO doesn't like the idea of people working at home. We're working on him, though.