27 Websites That Became Books

The AV Club has published a list of its favorite websites that have been made into books. My favorites from their list is Garfield Minus Garfield (HT to DK), Indexed, and The Joys of Engrish. And despite the rumors, there are NO PLANS for a Rethynk book… mainly because nobody cares.

You can see AV’s list HERE.

Winning the War

Andrew Sullivan wrote THIS over a year ago:

Consider this hypothetical. It’s November 2008. A young Pakistani Muslim is watching television and sees that this man—Barack Hussein Obama—is the new face of America. In one simple image, America’s soft power has been ratcheted up not a notch, but a logarithm. A brown-skinned man whose father was an African, who grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, who attended a majority-Muslim school as a boy, is now the alleged enemy. If you wanted the crudest but most effective weapon against the demonization of America that fuels Islamist ideology, Obama’s face gets close. It proves them wrong about what America is in ways no words can.

From ASBO

Thanks again, Jon.

We’re pretty awesome

…note false arrogance. Anyways, my church got another write-up on ChurchMarketingSucks.com about our current building/vision campaign and the web/web 2.0 communication behind it.

You can read the article HERE.

Letter from 2008

If you READ Focus on the Family’s Letter from 2012, featuring ridiculous predictions and fear-mongering tactics from the rightest of the right wing, than you want to read the rebuttal from God’s Politics. It is a letter which would have been nice to read back during the 2000 election, one that foretold the truth about what 8 years in a Bush presidency would mean.

You can check it our HERE.

Visual Worshipper

I am adding a link to my blogroll, Visual Worshipper. I got directed to this site/blog by Mike Work and have wasted a lot of time the last few days reading archived posts and discussions about lighting, sound, and projection display.

Right now there is a great one going on about IMAG in worship. I happen to feel that it is too much and a distraction to the worshipper, but I do not mind it during message/drama.

Anyways, take time to check it out and feed your creative bid-ness.

Terrorists using Twitter

Not me, I swear!

Read the article HERE.

Blogsecurify

If you use Wordpress to blog, you should find this helpful.

While it is the best and most comprehensive platform for blogging (IMO), Wordpress still lends users to specific security leaks and open to targeted attacks. Server-hosted users are most vulnerable (as I was able to demonstrate on a friends blog a few weeks ago), but no one is totally out of the woods. The good news is, the boys over at Gnucitizen finally released the WP Blogsecurify plugin for Wordpress bloggers. This plugin is truly on the cutting edge of the ever increasingly serious world of social media security.

The danger of dispensationalism

Once again, I have to redirect you to Rundio’s blog. He has a brilliant post about dispensationalism and how it has laid the framework for injustice and dangerous theology. Dispensationalism is the 100 year old way of interpereting biblical eschatology (end times). It is the most popular way of thinking in modern American Christianity and its exploits include the Left Behind series, pre/mid/post tribulation debating, a literal millenium, and other silly things.

Read what Matt has to say and then come on back and tell me what you think!

My thoughts exactly

Thanks to my buddy Matt for posting something I have neither the time nor desire to defend at his blog. End times and Revelation. His post summarizes, with scripture references and notation, my thoughts on this sometimes touchy subject. Basically, that final book of the New Testament isn’t what you probably have been taught.

If you are curious and have time, check it out!

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