Posted on August 13, 2008 by Zack
Check out this story about a guy named Herman Libshitz who couldn’t get the email address he wanted because of Verizon’s policy that email addresses and usernames not contain profanity.
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Posted on August 8, 2008 by Zack
Up until yesterday, you could buy an application for your iPhone that costs $999.99.
What does it do?
Nothing.
Not a darn thing.
It simply puts that red icon in your iPhone’s desktop so that people will see it and know that you are so wealthy that you can afford to waste money just for prestige…
Apple pulled the app, [...]
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Posted on July 25, 2008 by Zack
Greg Laurie is the pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship, where almost everyone in my family first learned about the Gospel.
His son, Christopher, was in a fatal car accident yesterday.
He has a toddler daughter and pregnant wife who he left behind.
Please keep their family in prayer, and stop by Greg’s blog and leave a comment to [...]
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Posted on July 3, 2008 by Zack
So it’s been almost a week since you’ve seen anything on this here blog or twitter get updated.
There’s a reason for that: I started my new job Tuesday.
With the new job comes a new office with new rules and new people. Here’s the skinny so far:
It’s 78 miles from our driveway to my new office [...]
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Posted on June 12, 2008 by Zack
Every time I come across something I want to draw your attention to via this blog, I leave it open in a tab, in hopes that some day I’ll have time to write what I really want to write about it.
…that hasn’t happened in a while though
And now my computer tells me that it must [...]
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Posted on May 5, 2008 by Zack
Very excited about this new EP, called ‘Ampersand’, from Derek Webb and his wife, Sandra.
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Posted on April 25, 2008 by Zack
Alright folks. I’ve been listening to “Wait, Wait: Don’t Tell Me” this morning, and I’ve narrowed down the dumb news stories of the week to two. Now you have to pick: Which is dumber:
A sales supervisor who used waterboarding to motivate his sales team (not a joke).
or
John McCain’s compaign trying to pass off Rachel Ray’s [...]
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Posted on April 16, 2008 by Zack
This is no joke!
Lali, the baby pictured above, was born in India recently. She is being worshiped as the reincarnation of a Hindu goddess. You can read more here.
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Posted on April 12, 2008 by Zack
I’m sure you’ve seen all the blog uproar about the song “Shout To The Lord” being used on the show American Idol. I honestly didn’t think too much of it when I first heard it. My knee jerk reaction was to be even more disillusioned with Hollywood that they took the word ‘Jesus’ out of [...]
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Posted on March 14, 2008 by Zack
I was listening to NPR this morning, and heard an interesting story. Apparently, the Dr. Seus book “Horton Hears a Who” has always been associated with the abortion debate. The premise of the book is that an elephant discovers that a whole world of “who’s” live on a dust speck that he discovers, so [...]
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