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Archive for September, 2008

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Deep Fun

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Connecting the two previous posts (sort of) is a link (via Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools – Deep Fun) which points to UUA – Deep Fun. This is a booklet you can download with a whole lot of ideas for youth and youth workers for small group games and activities. (The resource is produced by Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, and while I wouldn’t fall into that camp, there’s no reason why the resources couldn’t be adapted to any small group situation – religious or not).

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Review of recent research on children, youth and family

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Via Mary (Great overview of new research on children, youth and family a link through to a resource reviewing the emerging literature on children, youth and Christian formation by Karen Marie Yust. See Review of the emerging literature on children, youth and Christian formation.

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Thinkism and the Singularity

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Interesting post by Kevin Kelly on why he thinks that the transhumanist emphasis on intelligence as the source of technological ‘salvation’ is somewhat misplaced.

See Thinkism.

Posted by stepheng, in AI/Robotics, Transhumanism No Comments »

Spirituality and Disability Resources

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

While tracking down some resources and papers today on the web I came across this one. Looks useful.

See http://www.acbc.catholic.org.au/documents/200503106.pdf – Bishops Committee for the Family and for Life (Australian Catholic Bishops Conference) – National Network for Disability and Spirituality Resource List.

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Church History vacancy at the University of Auckland

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

The School of Theology at the University of Auckland has just advertised for a full-time church history lecturer. You can read the job advertisement at VAC A377-08I Lecturer in Church History School of Theology.

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What texting does to your brain

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

You don’t really need advanced scientific research for this – there’s enough anecdotal evidence around the place that walking, running and driving while txting may not be a good idea – but it’s nice to know it does do weird things to your brain.

See What texting does to your brain

Posted by stepheng, in Digital Technology No Comments »

The Shield!

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

The Wellington Lions win the Ranfurly Shield!

And they beat Auckland to do it – even better.
And Auckland score no points – even better.

Well done to the whole team.

Go the Lions!

Of course, I’m in Christchurch and miss all coverage of the game, but first-born and second-born went to the game and had a great time.

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1 Cor 13 – The Academic’s Cut

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

From James over at Exploring Our Matrix we get Exploring Our Matrix: 1 Corinthians 13 paraphrased for academics.

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Run Mac OS X on an Eee PC!

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Someone has way too much time on their hands.

Anyway, this is pretty much what I want. Smaller and more robust than a MacBook, but bigger and more capable than an iPhone, but still running Mac OS X. Desktop at work for most of the grunty work and then throw something like this in the backpack for word processing, web and email.

Cool.

Full article at Run Mac OS X on an Eee PC – Wired How-To Wiki including a video of it working.

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Jeff Simmonds – New Zealand Music

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Works for me. A while back Jeff Simmonds’ band (AKA “Obediah and the Minor Prophets”) were a staple of various Christian events & dances. In particular, their “Imprecatory Prayer” brought the unfashionable psalms “out of the closet” for discussion.

See Jeff Simmonds – New Zealand Music

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