The Techology Show September 22, 2010 Show Notes
Today’s giveaway details-You’ve got to listen and be in the chat room for your chance to win $20 in Fandango bucks.
New Spring Conference: Update from Heath
Not everyone is praying for Christopher Hitchens Today
http://blog.christianitytoday.com/women/2010/09/not_everyone_is_praying_for_ch.html
An equal opportunity destroyer
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2010/september/24.71.html
Gadgets the iPad killls (Video)
Download of the week
1. “While some of these results may seem amusing, they show that staying connected is a very serious issue to many, no matter what the circumstance,” Stephanie Edwards, PC Tools vice president of marketing commenting on a Harris Interactive pole that says people want to stay connected to the Internet during many of life’s activities; even sex.
Source: AFP International Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ibd-fK7uWauc_vZwTzvuyU82lMQQ
2. “…the one man who has more campaign contributions from BP than anybody else in history is now sitting in the Oval Office, President Barack Obama, who accepted $77,051 in campaign contributions from BP.”
Doug McKelway, veteran anchorman for ABC’s WJLA News7 during a live broadcast from Capitol Hill where environmental groups were protesting the influence of the oil-industry. McKelway was latter fired.
Source: The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/16/AR2010091606645.html
3. “The Secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not scale heaven; but they laid waist the world”
G.K. Chesterton commenting on the legacy of liberal secular thought and scholoarship.
Source: The book Orthodoxy
4. I think people get sort of defensive about it – like, “I don’t use my Facebook for that reason” – because it’s a label that you don’t want to be slapped with.
Soraya Mehdizadeh, York University Researcher who’s recent study concluded that Facebook Users are insecure, narcissistic, and have low self-esteem.
Source: The Daily Mail
5. “It’s not that spiritual people are less likely to say they’re religious. Instead, nonreligious people are more likely to say they are spiritual.”
Mark Chaves, Duke sociologist quoted in the article Faith Unbounded: Why Sprirituality is Sexy, but religion is not.
Source: Christianity Today
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2010/september/22.74.html
Man Claiming to have a bomb in Watsonville bank…
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_16033532
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