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Firefox 3: 8 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do – 5-8 – Solutions by PC Magazine

I like the “Change default mail” one.  That’s a handy tip since I’ve switched over to GMail (I love my iPhone!).

Beyond the Call: Free iPhone Apps – Facebook for the iPhone – Full Review – Reviews by PC Magazine

A very minimal look at some of the “great” iPhone apps that places a bit too much emphasis on the fact that the global economy sucks.

The 10 Most Absurd Social Networks – Reviews by PC Magazine

Bizarre….

Nero LiquidTV | TiVo PC – At A Glance – Reviews by PC Magazine

This is nice…I just wish DirecTV would let me read my DVR from a PC.

The Rock Church Worship Service

Paul

How He Loves Us

Jon

Kalle Lasn, Culture Jam: The Uncooling of America

Deep Resources of Love
Colossians 3:1-17

3:5-put to

3:1-comma important…Christ is ruling now

2:15-empire disarmed

Now-ism
Who’s dreams are we dreaming?
Of Jesus or of empire
Don’t worry about tomorrow

Matt 6:32-34

Col 1:21- empire encoursges doing evil
Be a blessing as you have been blessed

Col 1:6- new self, new virtues
Truth is in the person of Jesus

Col 1:15-20- Jesus is the head of the church

Col 3:1-
3:3-
3:4- Christ is our life

Not defined by what we do
Defined by Jesus my lover, my life
Glory- weight, significance, matter
He’s

3:11- relationships are done differently in the kingdom of God
In empire, relationships are a means to an end, fragmentatious
Before you deface another person in anger, think…
A new dream
World, flesh, devil are at work today…fragmenting us…
Not about margin shares…about people

1:9-10- fully pleasing to Him and Him alone
Increase in knowledge, bear fruit in every good work
Christ is our life

3:12-13,14-15,16-17
Do everything in the name of Jesus
Renewed things look like the Redeemer
Drape ourselves in our finest clothes…meekness, patience, forgiveness, love
Put on your Sunday clothes

1:20- embrace the world

Ex 3:7- He knows our sufferings

Luke. 6:36- merciful
Paul challenges us
Don’t clench…invite
We want to be included
Not for our sense of worth, but for our belief in restoration
Instead of complaining, be part of the solution
Only if sustained in forgiveness
Used 3 times in 3:15
Oh how He loves us

3:14- put on love
He’s got the whole world in His hands
Dwell in Jesus
3:16- teach and admonish
Be desperate for it
Let it dwell in our hearts (the words of our Messiah)

Det 4:3-9-
Singing, proclaiming that Jesus is IT!

3:17- Do everything in Jesus
Art, politics, business
Compassion, patience forgiveness and above all else, LOVE…because we draw from the source…Jesus

Paul

Revelation Song

Jon

Col 1:15-21

Obama Vs. McCain

McCain says Senator Obama, Obama says John.  Not very respectful.

What?  Did Obama really just switch to domestic policy issues on a question about foreign policy?  Oh that’s right…he’s just running through his list of talking points…ok…

Obama likes to play the blame game.  “We still don’t have Bin Laden.” What are you going to do about that Barak?  Pull troops out of Iraq, let it become a new hideout for Al-Queda and search for Bin Laden in Afghanistan?

McCain doesn’t support torture…oh…yeah…oops.  But as long as Jack Bauer government agents exist who are willing to take the temporary blame if the information is profitable, I’m fine.

I was surprised to hear Obama backpeddle in explaining what he meant by meeting with Ahmadinejad without preconditions…

Death Race

Takes place in 2012 after the US economy has collapsed…and both Laura and I go: “Wait, they’re four years off!”  ;)

A very enjoyable exposition of a societal return to gladiatorial games.

Yay Jason Statham!

Written and directed by Paul Anderson (Resident Evil, Mortal Kombat), the movie is fundamentally based on the 1975 film Death Race 2000 and presents a grim and violent future not too unimaginable from our present day.

The music was composed by Shoot ‘Em Up’s Paul Haslinger!  Yay!  Very fun music!

Hot girls, fast cars, violence…what more can you ask for in a high-octance action flick!

Joan Allen is fantastic as the Warden/villain.

I would like more information (a fleshed out universe structure) of the future presented in this movie.  How does the economic collapse affect…well everything!

Nice to see the corporations running the private institutions actively employ sadists as guards.

Ghost Town

Yay Ricky Gervais! Yay Greg Kinear! Yay Tea Leoni!

Wait…I know this plot! It happened to Robert Downey Jr. and Elizabeth Shue in the 90′s (Heart and Souls)!

Written and directed by David Koepp (Secret Window, the video renter eaten in Lost World), some reviews accuse him of handling Gervais (a genius in his own right) with kid gloves. But I think Koepp handles him perfectly for this movie and what it accomplishes.

I enjoyed this movie very much for it’s comedy (obviously) and it’s heart.

Exciting Trailers
Robert Downey Jr and Jamie Foxx do Finding Nemo Marlin/Dory subplot on land (Foxx has a mental disorder and when Downey Jr pays a modicum of attention to him, he endures life a little better).

Sam Mendes does the what-if-Jack-and-Rose-survived-the-Titanic. Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet fight to break the 60′s-women-are-homemakers mold.

Doubt stars Meryll Streep, Amy Adams and Phillip Seymour Hoffmann.

The Rock Church Worship Service

Jon

Colossians 2:1-15
2:2 full assurance of understanding
Recapture your imagination for Christ
1:8 the love in the Spirit
1:15-20 He is the true king
2:3 Christ has all wisdom and knowledge
Deut 6:4-9 Jehovah is God…write it everywhere!
2:6-7 walk in Him, root in Him, build up in Him
James 1:17 consider trials joyful
WB
The Gospel recaptures our imagination

Bangkok Dangerous

Astoundingly a remake (by writer/directors The Pang Brothers) of their 1999 Hong Kong film of the same title.  Looking at the IMDB summation, it’s clear that only a few core story details were altered, toss in a major movie star and you have….a very confusing movie.  Well not confusing per se.  It’s clear what the story is all about.  But it’s a movie that doesn’t actually make a lot of sense…in my opinion is does not define why it should exist as a movie.  But there’s explosions and violences and car/boat/motorcycle chases.  So it’s exhilirating….it’s just…weird…

Burn After Reading

Yay Coen Brothers! Except for a slightly unsatisfying ending (what happened to that character?), it was very enjoyable.

Again a film that I didn’t expect to be rated R, but is all the better, particularly for John Malkovich’s character.  “You’re Mormon!  Next to you we all have a drinking problem!”

Yay J.K. Simmons!

While Brad Pitt’s funniest moments aren’t all in the trailer, there isn’t more depth to the character.  And yet you laugh at Brad Pitt continuously.