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Happened across this site a few days ago: Break the Chain. Excellent companion site to Snopes. Definitely a link for our revamped intranet at school.

Now if only the new xServe would arrive…

That’s a horrible title, and I apologize.

Dave Winer has compiled a list of presidential candidates with weblogs. I don’t know why. I’m much more interested in a candidate’s stand on issues than I am in whether he or she has a Movable Type site running (and I did notice that most of these candidates are using Movable Type, which I think is pretty funny considering the source).

I like the whole idea of blogging, but it’s just writing. It’s nothing new. There’s nothing new under the sun.

And this whole thing: Meanwhile questions linger. Are today’s bloggers the modern-day Emersons and Thoreaus or Charlie Chaplin, PT Barnum or Erma Bombeck? Is blogspace a Second Superpower, a ride on the Cluetrain, the venue for the next election or is it even worse than it appears, just good enough to make a difference, or the revolution so many say it is? Gimme a break.

TheOneRing.net: Exhib guidelines call for a 3 p.m. showing of “Fellowship” followed by a 7 p.m. screening of “Two Towers” and then an 11 p.m. screening of “Return of the King, and ” which will carry over into Dec. 17 — the day of its global release.

Chris Tomlin writes: From Dallas, we flew in to Orange County to be a part of the Saddleback Church worship conference. It was what I refer to as a top 5 night. Meaning that I thought it ranked maybe in my top 5 all time experiences in playing music.

Yep. I was there. It was amazing. Chris goes on:

It was one of those concerts you wish you had on a live cd.

I wish I had it on a live CD, too. He joked that night that he wished he had recorded it all so he could the MP3s on his web site for us to download. That would have been way cool.

I was so tired the night he came out to lead worship. We were all exhausted. We had finished three days of training, of conviction, and of very moving worship. By Friday night, the finale, I was ready to be entertained. I really didn’t want to worship. I just wanted to sit.

But within moments, I was on my feet.

We all were.

We had to be.

ABC News: “A lot of people have the idea that you can only find God in the church,” says Nelson Searcy, a teaching pastor with the church. “We believe that if you seek God you’ll find him, even in the movies.”

Amen to that.

I can’t express how ungrounded I feel in a world where Gary Coleman ran for governor of California.

Next, you’ll tell me Jerry Springer’s getting into politics.

Why are you laughing?

Washington Post: The corporation, however, has also directly or indirectly influenced curriculums and research priorities, drawing an outcry from critics who say the donations are turning computer science departments into vocational schools where mastery of proprietary computer programs are valued over the study of theory. This scares the daylights out of me. I remember a couple years back when Microsoft was offering professors kickbacks for using and endorsing their products in class. Wish I could find a link for that one, though.

Hey, Microsoft! I run Active Directory, and I have tons of machines running 2000 and XP. I still actively support NT 4 and Windows95 for crying out loud. Where’s my kickback? Huh?

Actually, I don’t need a kickback. If anything, I wish I could have back the two weeks I lost rebuilding Active Directory three times because Windows2000 is so sucktacular. Not to mention the sleep I lost over the long-standing, long-acknowledged, took-way-too-long-to-fix bug in AppleTalk services on a system with dual Intel NICs.

Mike Tyson has offered some advice and sympathy to Kobe Bryant. “I’ve been in an ordeal like him, and I know how easy it is for a young man to be a big shot, a big star in America’s eyes and then get in another arena and he’s nobody. That means the judicial arena.” Eloquent as always, Mr. Tyson.

MSNBC: Christian game developers seek to put God in the machine, while thinkers like Thomas and Clark say that the notion of God is already there. Differing opinions, but both hold a core belief: A game’s influence doesn’t end when you turn off the console.

And on the subject of weird religious stuff: Boy dies in “healing” service; death ruled homicide. This is the kind of stuff that really burns me up. First of all, don’t kill people. Stop doing that altogether. Secondly, don’t kill someone and then say, “God wanted him back.” This was an 8-year-old boy with a medical condition, for crying out loud. I believe in miracles and healing, but I don’t presume to expect anything from God on my terms.

New York Times: No matter how eagerly awaited, however, Napster 2.0 will pale by comparison with its renegade predecessor in some ways. Well, duh. It’s going to cost money.

Read the great flavor/flavour debate here.

Here’s what truetech.org would look like if I had designed it in 1996.

Sesame Street for grownups.

RSS comics. Woohoo

There’s an official home page for the Blue Star LSD Tattoo Urban Legend. Took me back to my childhood.