Emoji miracle
Sometimes, you just need to use tiny Asian pictures to tell a Bible story.
So sit back, kids, and let uncle Owen tell you about the time…
Jesus turned the water into wine… Read more
Posts from the ‘communication’ Category
Jan 28
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Teaching to Preach
The project of learning has changed fundamentally in the past few decades. Not too long ago, much of education was a matter of learning how to find information. That’s no longer the case.
Thanks to the advent of the Internet, locating a wealth of information on any topic is as quick and easy as tapping a few words into your web browser.
Finding information is easy. Figuring out what to do with it is the new challenge. What sources are trustworthy? How do I prioritize what I find? What is the difference between fact and opinion? These are the kind of questions a contemporary education must prepare the learner to answer. Read more
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Jun 21
Huntsman Campaign Typo
ABC World News snapped this photo at U.S. Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman’s campaign kick-off speech. The image shows an embarrassing typo on a press badge issued to an ABC reporter for the event.
ABC posted the image briefly to photo sharing service Instagram before hastily removing it. However, they couldn’t delete it before yours truly was able to snap this screen shot.
Can you spot the flub? Read more
The cell phone’s first words
Joel, this is Marty. I’m calling you from a cellphone, a real, handheld, portable cellphone.
Martin Cooper, speaking the first words ever said over a mobile phone. A Motorola engineer, Martin used his newly invented device to call Joel Engel, a rival at AT&T, on April 3, 1973. Many would say that the mobile phones have been rude and annoying ever sense.
See: This story from the BBC and this one from CNN for more
Colbert on the history of AT&T
Sorry, there’s one swear word. If you cough loudly from :10-:12 you’ll miss it.
Or don’t, if you enjoy profanity. I won’t know.
dim windows
This life’s dim windows of the soul / Distorts the heavens from pole to pole / And leads you to believe a lie / When you see with, not through, the eye.
William Blake, The Everlasting Gospel
sec. 5, line 101
