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For those of you who make sure that even your text messages uphold the Chicago standards there’s a new FireFox extension you might be interested in: YouTube Comment Snob. Its customizable interface lets you literally block comments from YouTube videos that contain too much punctuation, no capitals, all capitals, or too many spelling errors (you can choose how much is too much).

Designer Manfred Klein has posted an insane number of amazing fonts online. Free for personal use, but if you do anything for profit he requests that you donate to a charity like Doctors Without Borders. Everyone wins here! Most the fonts are TT but there are some OpenType mixed in. Check them out here.

Here’s a full-screen flash website that mimics a Windows desktop with classic books designed in a fake Powerpoint document that lets you read books when you’re at work. It’s clever and totally worth a look, but I question its usefullness.

Usually in books dealing with science fiction that takes place in the future people tend to speak in regular English. 1984 was the exception that proves the rule. Other stories like Battlestar Galactica or Red Dwarf hint at linguistic changes by introducing made-up slang but leaving the bulk of the dialog intact. Here’s a site in which its author describes in depth what s/he thinks will happen to the English language over the next thousand years. Of course it’s all speculation, but isn’t it fun to speculate some times?

“For Thy perfect wisdom and perfect goodness:For the love wherewith Thou lovest mankind:For the love wherewith Thou lovest me:For the great and mysterious opportunity of my life:For the indwelling of Thy Spirit in my heart:For the sevenfold gifts of Thy Spirit: I praise and worship Thee, O Lord.”-John Baillie, A Diary of Private Prayer That one line “For the great and mysterious opportunity of my life…” has been bouncing around in my head for days, doing some very good work in me. The birth of yet a third beautiful, perfect child is another opportunity to reflect on God’s goodness to me and the great and mysterious opportunity he has given me in this life I lead.Completely undeserved I have a wife who loves me, children I delight in, a home that shelters me in more ways than one, food in the pantry and clothes in the closet, a church full of people I love who allow me to help teach and shepherd them…There are times when I am just awestruck by the gift of my life, and by the God who would give it to me.

6. “And because it illustrates my point so well, just one more story about my kids…”5. “For the last time, the money was just *resting* in my account!”4. “If you’ll open your Bibles to the book of Lamentations…” 3. “I saw the most amazing thing at this conference last month and I’ve been thinking…”2. “Now, point 18, and don’t worry- I only have a few more…” 1. “Hi… it’s Pastor. I know it’s late, but… I need someone to come bail me out.”

I have no words for this one. None at all. None. The only way this picture could be improved would be to make the white horse a unicorn instead…

Ed Note: Is it possible for Jesus to get TOO manly? Yeah… it is. (Oh, lighten up, people. All in fun, all in fun)

This morning, I came across the following sentence in a periodical. Names have been changed to protect the innocent.

“Heather, Peter, and Amy relax as they download ideas to each other.”

No, no, no! They discuss ideas. They share ideas. They do not–under any circumstances–download ideas! (Even if they were computers, someone needs to explain to me how they could download ideas to each other.)

If you have any questions, I direct you to Merriam-Webster Online. See also Dictionary.com.

[Also, crackdown. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/crackdown (accessed: August 20, 2008).]

I put this out there, not because I think I’m a great preacher you all should hear, but because I imagine that at some point, many of you will come up against 1 Cor 11 the way we did recently and might be just as intimidated at the thought of preaching it as I was… and maybe this will help in some way. Keep in mind- this is from a community that has worked through the Scriptural issues and come out on the other side affirming women in leadership. Here’s the manuscript and here’s the audio…