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• The 10 Geekiest Pieces of Furniture in the Universe: The scrabble couches were kind of amusing.
• Many Americans don't believe in hell, but what about pastors?: Amazing how sometimes the press brings out what the church by and large seems to ignore. I'd say it's a problem.
• Big Content: ludicrous to expect DRMed music to work forever: The media corporations - how about we call them corpses - are lobbying for the right to arbitrarily terminate access to content you've paid for. (Not quite as deliciously ironic, though, as the Amazon's recent deletion of purchased copies of Orwell's 1984 from the Kindles they sell.)

An exclusive KIRO 7 Investigation reveals an alarming number of Apple brand iPod MP3 players have suddenly burst into flames and smoke, injuring people and damaging property.

It’s an investigation that Apple has apparently been trying to keep out of the public eye.

It took more than 7-months for KIRO 7 Consumer Investigator Amy Clancy to get her hands on documents concerning Apple’s iPods from the Consumer Product Safety Commission because Apple’s lawyers filed exemption after exemption.

Excerpted from: KIRO 7 - Seattle

Somehow I doubt that this will get the Apple addicts to switch, although I do like my 8GB Creative Zen V Plus better than the iPod Nano that I owned for a while.

Given my recent readings - Fast Food Nation, In Defense of Food, etc. - I found it interesting that the theme of the current issue of Modern Reformation is theology and food. Once someone is back from Asia, I think that he'll be getting this issue tossed at him so he can read quotes such as:

... I cannot help but think that it is hard for most participants to picture the mystery of our participation in the eternal marriage feast in heaven, when they have as a model in their minds driving up to the window at McDonald's for a hamburger, fries, and a Coke.

(Daniel Eggold, "Consuming Communion", p. 33 of July/August 2009 issue of Modern Reformation)

Someone else is likely to enjoy the article "Holy Communion as a Strategic Plan for Church Growth".

Another oddity that this issue brought out is that the one of the authors of a book that I'd recently come across - Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want (covering how businesses can create [pseudo-]authenticity) - is actually a subscriber to the magazine.

Buzz Aldrin was a firm Presbyterian Christian and had communion on the Moon. However it was kept secret from the public as Nasa was fighting a lawsuit by atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair who objected to the Apollo 8 crew reading from the Book of Genesis. Aldrin's communion kit was prepared by the pastor of his church.

Excerpted from: The Daily Mail

Solo-communion seems a bit. although not entirely, self-contradictory. It's an interesting note none-the-less.

Go back 40 years, and Apollo 11 was somewhere in transit between the earth and the moon. That... and a certain Singaporean was wearing diapers.

Unfortunately, I don't that Google's lunar base is hiring anymore. Otherwise, sign me up to go.