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33 Things: This Week’s Amusing & Intriguing Links

1.     On Writing a Book That Doesn’t Totally Suck: Writing a book is like giving birth to a snarling 8 headed monster. It’s so much more than sitting down in front of your laptop and typing. It’s more like a war, as your own words and ideas battle you and each other. In...
August 27th, 2010 | Other, Thirty Three Things | Read More

33 Things: This Week’s Amusing & Intriguing Links

1.   Joe Carter Facts #joecarterfacts are not copies of #chucknorrisfacts. They are the Platonic Form Chuck Norris only wishes he could partake in. 2.     You are older than you think. Born when Ross Perot was warning about a giant sucking sound and Bill Clinton was apologizing for pain in his...
August 20th, 2010 | Other, Thirty Three Things | Read More

33 Things: This week’s amusing and intriguing links

1.     The fridge of the future: George Jetson sold separately.2.     How to pack the ultimate school lunch and be your kid’s hero for all time (or at least through the 4th grade)3.     Gambling for grades: the next best study motivator, or internet gambling gone wrong? 4.    ...
August 13th, 2010 | Other, Thirty Three Things | Read More

33 Things: This week’s amusing and intriguing links

1.     Going to lose your house? Ask Superman to save you!2.     How technology has made romance more Austenian than ever:3.     ?!4.     Judges exercise considerable (and disputed) power right and left- no wait, that would be left and left. 5.     “Civil suit” no...
August 6th, 2010 | Other, Thirty Three Things | Read More

33 Things: This Week’s Amusing and Intriguing Links

1.     Free ebooks in tens of different formats! ManyBooks. Many many. 2.     What did Albert Einstein think about god? 3.     A mother who recreates her infant daughter’s dreams and photographs them:4.     Shields up! 5.     Thoughts from 1941: Who Goes Nazi? 6.     ...
July 29th, 2010 | Other, Thirty Three Things | Read More

33 Things: This Week’s Amusing and Intriguing Links

1.     Beauty, sentimentality, and the gospel: “Indeed, as the church seeks a role in the arts, it must reclaim a more mature concept of beauty. As we recognize and embrace the heartlonging in many works of art, we may make a convincing proclamation of the whole gospel message. Finding a way...
July 23rd, 2010 | Other, Thirty Three Things | Read More

33 Things: This Week’s Amusing and Intriguing Links

1.     A Policeman Who Blogs…In Verse 2.     Zombie sign language!3.     Analysis and Commentary on the Comics Page 4.     Ebert on Architecture 5.     The Cult of Originality 6.     Don’t ever ask a professional designer to make a ‘lost cat’ poster.  This...
July 16th, 2010 | Other, Thirty Three Things | Read More

33 Things: This Week’s Amusing & Intriguing Links

1. Yet another instance of art proving intractable to science — now, with more shady dealings! 2. Organs to order 3. Analogies are like sandwiches. 4. German Court OK’s pre-implantation genetic screening 5. The Weight of Smut 6. The Chemistry of Fireworks 7.  Your Golden Years May be...
July 8th, 2010 | Thirty Three Things | Read More

33 Things: This Week’s Amusing & Intriguing Links

1.     A new thing to do with your iPhone: take arial footage or play helicopter wars with a friend. 2.     Wonder what the new wave is in google technology?  Here’s a guess: it’ll learn your language, not just process it.  For the philosophy nerds, that might mean it’ll...
July 2nd, 2010 | Other, Thirty Three Things | Read More

33 Things: The Week’s Amusing & Intriguing Links

Dustin Steeve 1. Ben Stein wonders what law gives President Obama the authority to “kick ass” and demand $20 billion from BP?   “The BP behavior is reminiscent of how, immediately after assuming office, Mr. Obama, with no Congressional authority or administrative allowance, simply made a phone...
June 25th, 2010 | Thirty Three Things | Read More