Best of the Web for Week 4 of 2009

• GameSpy: Zork Browser-Based MMO Announced

  tags: zork, infocom, news

  • Jolt Online Gaming will be developing a casual multiplayer game based on the legendary Zork franchise. The game will be web-based, playable from any Internet browser (including mobile devices).
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• Atmosphere cooler now than eight years ago (OneNewsNow.com)

  President Bush fixed the man-made global climate change problem! Yay!

  tags: climate-change, global-warming, environment, environmentalism, politics

  • George W. Bush will leave office on January 20 with the earth’s temperature cooler than when he took office in 2001.
  • "We put up satellites in the atmosphere to measure the lower troposphere. We did this 30 years ago because of the global cooling panic. So we’re measuring where we would find the cooling or warming signal, which is in the lower troposphere," he explains. "And we don’t see either; there has been a slight cooling in the last few years. The warming of two decades stopped in 1998."

• Biden shushes wife after slip-up on ‘Oprah’

  The spin begins already…

  tags: biden, obama, inaugeration, politics, oprah

  • "Joe had the choice to be secretary of state or vice president," she said. Her husband turned to his wife with his finger to his lips and a "Shhhh!" that sent the audience into laughter. "OK, he did," Jill Biden said in her defense.
  • After the exchange aired on television three hours later, Biden spokeswoman Elizabeth Alexander denied Jill Biden’s account in a statement e-mailed to reporters.

• "Barack Obama the Antichrist?"

  I’m not a conspiracy theorist by any means, but I had to pull my sweatshirt on a little tighter when I read this website.

  tags: obama, religion, end-times, revelation, anti-christ, antichrist

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  • Mission Statement

    A lot of people have been Googling "Obama Antichrist" or "Barack Obama Antichrist" and "Obama Messiah". This blog is dedicated to asking what is the cause of this phenomenon and where did it start?

• American Thinker – Comments

  I never bookmark a mere comment, but the hypocrisy pointed out in this comment on a blog post deserves to be recognized.

  tags: liberalism, hypocrisy, obama, inaugeration, bush, presidency

  • Headlines On This Date 4 Years Ago:

    "Republicans spending $42 million on inauguration
    while troops die in unarmored Humvees"

    "Bush extravagance exceeds any reason during tough economic times"

    "Fat cats get their $42 million inauguration party,
    Ordinary Americans get the shaft"

    Headlines Today:

    "Historic Obama Inauguration will cost only $120 million"

    "Obama Spends $120 million on inauguration; America Needs A Big Party"

    "Everyman Obama shows America how to celebrate"

    "Citibank executives contribute $8 million to Obama Inauguration"

• YouTube – I Pledge!

  As disturbing as the video is, the comments on YouTube leave me with at least SOME hope. Well, not much.

  tags: obama, liberalism, celebrities, pop-culture

• 22weeks The Movie

  "A young woman is locked in the bathroom of an abortion clinic after her aborted baby was born alive." — The trailer looks like a horror movie… But it’s based on true events.

  tags: abortion, movies, trailers

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Best of the Web for Week 3 of 2009

Sorry, I guess there’s not a whole lot going on this past week, or just nothing much that caught my attention.  Finally, though, there is an online video search place that ties together all of the various places around the internet to watch TV and other video.  Monica and I are currently using it to get caught up on 24.

• CastTV Video Search

  The one-stop place for finding all video on the internet, including TV shows.

  tags: tv, video, youtube, media, streaming, Favorite, television, search

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Best of the Web for Week 2 of 2009

• Christ is deeper still: On our watch

  tags: no_tag

  • Fewer than half of all adults can name the four gospels.
  • According to 82 percent of Americans, ‘God helps those who help themselves,’ is a Bible verse.
  • Those identified as born-again Christians did better–by one percent.
  • Another survey of graduating high school seniors revealed that over 50 percent thought that Sodom and Gomorrah were husband and wife.
  • This is on our watch. What can we pastors do about it? Here are a few obvious ideas.

• Adult Women Play House With Fake Babies

  tags: babies, parenting

• Staying stuck in habitual sin

  tags: sin, jesus, christ, christianity

  • We don’t really want to give it up. We think we do, which is why we pray about it, but in reality the only thing we want to give up are its consequences.
  • we derive some benefit from the behavior that we don’t want to give up.
  • Our initial recoiling from the badness of the thing over time can easily spin into the nebulous “I’m not convinced it’s really sinful” category. This is a dangerous place to get.
  • We keep it secret. Some sinful habits don’t seem that bad because there are no outward indicators that we are caught in something. No one can call us on it. This is also a dangerous place to get.
  • The primary reason we stay stuck is that we fail to look to Christ. We know that he died to the pay the penalty for our sin, which, unfortunately, all too often we use as an excuse to indulge just one more day.

• MyListWatcher.com – We Watch Your Amazon Wish Lists and will alert you when the price of any item meets your target price

  If this works, it could be a great service…

  tags: amazon, books, movies, bargains, shopping

  • We Watch Your Amazon Wish Lists and will alert you when the price of any item meets your target price. Never miss a bargain again!

• YouTube – MacBook Wheel

  Apple does it again… ;) (Thanks Tommy)

  tags: macbook, apple

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Best of the Web for week of New Years, 2009

• Climate change threat to alpine ski resorts – Telegraph

  tags: environmentalism, global warming

  • 6:28PM BST 21 May 2008
  • A study of snowfall spanning 60 years has indicated that the Alps’s entire winter sports industry could grind to a halt through lack of snow.
  • Climate change has been identified as one of the factors; warmer conditions cause snow to melt, making it more unstable and prone to sliding down the mountain.

• The Alps have best snow conditions ‘in a generation’ – Telegraph

  tags: no_tag

  • 4:02PM GMT 19 Dec 2008
  • Some 400,000 British skiers heading for the Alps over the coming fortnight will find the best Christmas and New Year snow conditions in a generation.
  • Val and neighbouring Tignes have already enjoyed more snow in December than in any year since 1981 and seem set to beat all records by New Year’s Day.

• Test Your GTD-IQ

  tags: no_tag

  • This means you have scored in the "Captain And Commander / Autocrat" quadrant.
  • Your answers indicate that you have a healthy balance of perspective and control. You are "on your game"!
  • The challenge that you face is more about fine-tuning the practices that you already (at least to some degree) have in place. Your improvement opportunity is to pay attention to the more subtle aspects of your work and life.

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