Archive for December 1st, 2008
Where are kids going online?
eMarketer posted the top websites of teens & college students. I don’t know what any of this means, but it is interesting. Glad to see MySpace doesn’t make the guys top 5 at all. One interesting thing for me speaking of gender is that for the guys in college, CNN replaces YouTube. For the ladies, [...]
Are You Too Fashionable?
YOU MAY BE TOO FASHIONABLE IF . . .
You can look around at church and notice that everybody is basically the same age and they look and dress pretty much like you do.
You can’t stand singing a worship song that was “in†five years ago—much less singing a hymn from another century.
You believe social justice [...]
Paperback Swap & Other Money Savers
Save money on books. Check out Paperback Swap.
What is PaperBackSwap? PaperBackSwap is a free online book exchange service. You sign up there and list nine books that you’re willing to send out in the mail to anyone (just list nine books you have that you probably won’t read again and you’d probably end up taking [...]
Advent Links
The Rabbit Room & Mere Orthodoxy are a couple blogs that will be posting posts specific to advent. I’m subscribing to both of their feeds.Â
The Rabbit Room has a virtural Advent Wreath. Here’s a taste from Mere Orthodoxy.
“Come, Lord Jesus.â€Â This is the prayer that we pray on the First Sunday of Advent. It reminds [...]
You can’t take the car out of the parking lot until you pay for it.
So it can be done!Â
This is a refreshing story from the Chicago Tribune – Practicing abstinence, bride and groom have never kissed.
When the officiant tells Claudaniel Fabien he can kiss his bride at the altar Saturday, no one will fault the couple for a little “should I tilt my head this way, or that way?” [...]
Ends Justified – A Moral Disconnect
USA Today article Students cheat, steal, but say they’re good.
Some highlights…
In the past year, 30% of U.S. high school students have stolen from a store and 64% have cheated on a test, according to a new, large-scale survey suggesting that Americans are too apathetic about ethical standards.
Michael Josephson, the institute’s founder and president, said he [...]