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Jim Tomlinson wants us all to watch The Story of Stuff:
It takes 20 minutes to watch, and if your Internet connection is slow, maybe longer than that. But I think you’ll find that this short film is extremely well-done and more than a little thought provoking. Give it a look!
What is The Story of Stuff?
The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It’ll teach you something, it’ll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.
And there is, of course, a Story of Stuff blog.
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The Creation Museum is in the red? Financially? From Answers in Genesis:
As the year draws to a close, I’m asking you to pray diligently about how large a gift you can give to support AiG’s year-end ministry and start 2008 strong.
We need to raise $400,000 by December 31 to finish the year on-budget—armed to stand as effective witnesses for Christ against Satan’s attacks while 2007 closes and a new year begins. I have no doubt we can reach that goal, if every person who truly wants to see the world acknowledge the truth of God’s Word will reach out with one final, generous gift in these last few weeks of 2007.
Pray to find how God wants to use you in this situation…
I fear that God wants to use me to laugh uproariously.
Mad Magazine apparently finds the museum risible, too. They’ve listed it as #14 in the 20 dumbest people, events, and things of 2007
Links from Bluegrass Report.
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from the NYTimes:
The United Nations General Assembly voted on Tuesday for a global moratorium on the death penalty. The resolution was nonbinding; its symbolic weight made barely a ripple in the news ocean of the United States, where governments’ right to kill a killer is enshrined in law and custom.
But for those who have been trying to move the world away from lethal revenge as government policy, this was a milestone. The resolution failed repeatedly in the 1990s, but this time the vote was 104 to 54, with 29 nations abstaining. Progress has come in Europe and Africa. Nations like Senegal, Burundi, Gabon — even Rwanda, shamed by genocide — have decided to reject the death penalty, as official barbarism.
The United States, as usual, lined up on the other side, with Iran, China, Pakistan, Sudan and Iraq. Together this blood brotherhood accounts for more than 90 percent of the world’s executions, according to Amnesty International.
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