In his review of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Slate’s Troy Patterson is onto something. Evidence suggests that Late Night With Jimmy Fallon is not a normal talk show—or even an abnormal talk show in the self-ironic tradition Letterman pioneered—but a mutant multimedia experience, part chatfest and part reality show. It is an R&D attempt to reinvent the format for the way we live now (as perceived by a network generally agreed to have no idea what it is doing... Read more

Evan Williams Predicts That “Normal People” Will Use Twitter In Five Years . I agree. Twitter, like blogger and television and video games and film and the printing press, gets a bad rap not only because it’s new, but because it’s created in response to various cultural trademarks: short attention spans, a desire for connection no matter how, a craving for constant streams of information. While Twitter succeeds because of these things, it can also be used successfully by Christians... Read more

Anna over at Goannatree has been going through ChristianColleges.com’s list of top 100 Theology blogs and doing her own review of the sites on their list. Yesterday she reviewed CAPC: Making the Grade: Scope – A Quality – A- (will it stand the test of time?) Theological Leanings –  Read more

“The Other Journal” just posted a review of an interesting book by William Cavanaugh on consumerism and Christianity entitled,  Being Consumed. Here’s a few lines that struck me: “Transnational capitalism sells itself as the true catholic order that will bring all of the peoples of the world into a peaceful commercial unity while preserving diversity in the form of choice. This is yet another empty promise. The supposed diversity of global capitalism evacuates all significance from the communities of the world,... Read more

Soccer goalie gains an edge with his iPod. Read more

I wrote an article for Collide Magazine called The Reality of High-Def which is now online. If you have a high definition television or are thinking about getting one, or know someone who does, I’d say it’s a good article for you to read. Read more

Thoughts on why the U.S. struggles to get recognition in the European soccer universe! Read more

Patrol Magazine’s “Jonas Brothers 3D” Scream Index. You know you want to see this. Read more

A retired farmer just spent 30 years building a scale model of Herod’s temple. What do you think? Read more