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Archives for December 2007

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Google and the Giant

Posted 17 DEC 2007 | Comments

The NY Times ran a fascinating article yesterday that delves into the battle between Google and Microsoft. It's really interesting to see just how different a foe Google is and how past tactics just won't work for Microsoft - a very good thing. Of course, only time will tell whether or not Google will remain a benevolent behemoth.

Energy Production Waste Levels

Posted 14 DEC 2007 | Comments
A family in four in France, where they reprocess nuclear fuel, would produce only enough waste to fit in a coffee cup over a whole lifetime. A lifetime of getting all your electricity from coal-fired plants would make a single person's share of solid waste (in the United States) 68 tons, which would require six 12-ton railroad cars to haul away. Your share of CO2 would be 77 tons.

- Gwyneth Cravens

I saw this in a Wired interview of a former nuke protester who contends that the only way to rescue "our plug-hungry planet from catastrophic global warming is to embrace nuclear power." I've no idea if she knows what she's talking about, but it's staggering if true.

I've always been intrigued by the idea of nuclear power, especially after I read The radioactive boy scout years ago. If some resourceful kid can do that in his backyard, what's stopping us from doing it on a larger scale?

Summoning God

Posted 07 DEC 2007 | Comments

The danger we face when we worship is coming into the experience assuming we are summoning God. Assuming worship is our initiative. Assuming we are somehow the ones in control, that we are bringing the best of ourselves and our holy desire to worship. When the reality is, worship does not begin with the worshiper. It begins with God. It is a response to God’s calling upon us.

Jared Wilson