The internet needs a way to help people separate rumor from real science
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web
This time what we need are trains. Yes, TRAINS! Not the archaic choo-choo’s of our grandparents’ day, but the sleek, high speed, ELECTRIC, mag-lev super trains that are now commonplace everywhere else! We are the only major industrialized nation on the planet without a modernized internal passenger rail system. Ford, GM, and Chrysler can re-tool some of those plants they’re closing down to build the cars. All of those airline people getting laid off can crew the cars and handle the baggage and maintenance needs. I imagine quite a few former NASA engineers will find that a familiarity with on-board computer systems will suddenly be in big demand in a new industry. As will system routing, technical support and maintenance, and a host of aerodynamic design disciplines. What goes better with trains than engineers? That’s not even beginning to calculate the boon for the construction trades. The iron workers alone will get giddy at the employment prospects.
We don’t even need to pay for more land. Just elevate them and run them right down the median or along the side the existing highway system. Lose a job at the Cape [Canaveral]? Don’t panic. You don’t have to move. You just hop the monorail to Miami, or Tampa, or Atlanta in not much more time than it took you for the car commute from Palm Bay. Oh, yeah, I forgot the best part. Your kids can BREATHE again! And your house won’t need to be fitted with a SNORKEL in 20 to 30 years!
All aboard!
All Aboard! By David Sherman
DMP-enabled devices would accept broadcast “orders” limiting capabilities. Cellphones could be remotely set to vibrate mode in restaurants and concert halls, and be turned off on airplanes and in hospitals. Cameras could be prohibited from taking pictures in locker rooms and museums, and recording equipment could be disabled in theaters. Professors finally could prevent students from texting one another during class.
Security Matters: I’ve Seen the Future, and It Has a Kill Switch
Excess consumption is practically an American religion. But as anyone with a filled-to-the-gills closet knows, the things we accumulate can become oppressive. With all this stuff piling up and never quite getting put away, were no longer huddled masses yearning to breathe free; were huddled masses yearning to free up space on a countertop.
Where you put your time and attention says a lot about who you are. It says a lot about you as a human being. You have some idea in your head of all the stuff that is high priority to you. All the stuff that really matters. If I sat down and asked you what’s really important to you - you would say ‘oh my family and my church group and I’m a deacon.’ But then I go and I look in your email box, newsfeeds and web browser… If I went and got all CSI on that, what would the last two weeks of your electronic life say about how it maps to the stuff that you claim is really important?
Merlin Mann (via)
It is a mistake to think that Christians ought all to be teetotalers; [Islam], not Christianity, is the teetotal religion.C.S. Lewis(via AZspot.net)
Worship is a lifestyle of humility before God. It is to exalt Him in your actions, thoughts, decisions, and words. Yes, you can express your inner worship to Him in song, but that is not “worship” in and of itself. Worship is a condition of the heart by which we live our spiritual lives prostrate before our King in utter humility. In everything we do, we seek to reveal Him (rather than ourselves) so that He may be glorified in the earth.
Supernatural Truth
Indeed, the crowds start thinning out as the miracles become less frequent and Jesus’ teaching takes center stage. Truth just isn’t as attractive or interesting as miracles. The point seems to be that without relationship there is no miracle. By the time we get to the cross, devoid of miracle, nobody’s there. The Naked Pastor
