100 days of Barack Obama’s Facebook news feed. Read more

A Kinder Gentler Marxism Read more

The Pew Forum released a survey detailing the high number and frequency of changing religions and denominations among Americans. Read the linked article to find many interesting findings regarding this regular occurence. One quote:  “Most people who left their childhood faith did so before turning 24.” Read more

Twitter for the Local Church Read more

How Gadgets Lose Their Magic But now my daydreams are different. As technological magic becomes routine, I wonder whether a visit to a preindustrial society might teach me more than it teaches them. The only thing more fascinating than our technology is the idea of getting along without it. Maybe the way to recapture the magic is to turn all that stuff off. I’ve been repeatedly amazed by how enamored much of the tech community has been with the idea... Read more

How much is watching TV costing you? To put it into perspective, if you watch an average of 31.5 hours of TV each week (which the average person in the US does) and you value your time at minimum wage of $5.85 an hour, you are spending nearly $800 a month ($798.53) to watch TV. That comes to nearly $10,000 ($9582.30) a year. I would imagine that most people reading this value their time well above minimum wage, so the... Read more

I come back from a busy day to find quite a lot had changed. To begin, it looks like you and I are now the majority shareholders in General Motors. Rather poor move no matter how I examine it. I’ve resisted the evil “S” word (that’s Socialism) seeing many statements of it as premature and more based on rants than reason. However, this looks like a textbook example of government running of a massive section of private industry. Hence if... Read more

Would someone explain inertia to Joystiq’s Exitebots reviewer? Read more