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a diversion–Swan Lake

Got a link from the Internet Evangelism Bulletin for this. Quite incredible. The Great Chinese State Circus does Swan Lake  

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Headline: wife finds use for ‘blog’

I was once at a meeting with Dr. Bob III where I introduced myself this way: “My name is Don… “I am a blogger…” This was due to Dr. Bob’s noted antipathy for blogs. My wife has typically shared his...

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today 99 becomes 50

My American friends might not know what that headline means. I would guess almost all of my Canadian friends would. Today, Wayne Gretzky, unarguably the greatest hockey player ever, turns 50 years old....

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maybe you’ve seen this one

BREAKING NEWS: The epicenter of the quake has been pinpointed to a graveyard outside of DC, where all our Founding Fathers just rolled over in their graves due to current leadership in Washington. A...

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more hilarity from a spammer

Got a spam e-mail from someone claiming to be doing social work in North Korea and also claiming I had been in contact with them in the past. Then it closed with this disclaimer: CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE...

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does this strike you as funny?

The latest 9 Marks eJournal is out. There is an article by Owen Strachan attempting to sketch the history of the doctrine of conversion in America. In the article, he cites George Whitfield in the line...

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What about tatttoos?

An article in the National Post highlights an unlooked for objection to the modern craze of tattoos. Christians should object to tattoos for a number of reasons, but everyone should think about what...

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the double cross

A funny little vignette from my reading of A Brief History of Britain 1660-1851: The Making of A Nation. It seems that in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the people of Britain were very...

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crepuscule

This is dictionary.com’s word of the day today. It sounds disturbing, but it means “twilight, dusk”. Hardly as ominous as it sounds. The word comes to us from the Latin, they say, around the year 1400....

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not quite ready for prime time?

Check this out from Lenovo.com (click on the image for the link) Lenovo, who makes an excellent computer, by the way (more than one!), announced a new app today. But notice the “More text explaining...

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