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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else:

Christianity: From Relevant Magazine, five bad reasons to leave your church.
 
Also from Relevant, a partly humorous, but Biblical, and historical, defense of wearing beards.
 
Rebecca LuElla Miller asks some questions about that favorite type of fiction among conservative Christian women, Amish romance.
 
The Speculative Faith blog, written by Christians, has posted another review of the God's Not Dead movie, and it points out some flaws. (See here for my review.)

Computing: A National Public Radio reported had experts monitor his on-line activity, just to see what the NSA, or others, could learn about him. A lot!
 
Gizmo's Freeware points us to a web site that will rotate a video that you shot with the wrong orientation.

Health: Big problems still exist at the Japanese nuclear power plant damaged by the tsunami, a few years ago.


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Sunspots 374

Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else:

Humor: (or something) Fox News on why Taco Bell flew lunch in to a small town in Alaska.

Science: (sort of) NPR reports that Shell Oil is practicing their oil spill cleaning techniques.

Computing: Gizmo's Freeware has a page on free video editors.

Christianity: (Sort of) A definition of religion, in a review of books on the evolution of religion, more or less, in The American Interest: “system of symbols which, when enacted by human beings, establishes powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations that make sense in terms of an idea of a general order of existence.” The quotation is from one of the books reviewed, authored by Robert Bellah.

 

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