Deiknuo's Shorter Blog http://shorterblog.wordpress.com Quotes, illustrations, news items and stories Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:37:17 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/1d1d9e682b419388238c03c8598ce9c4?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png Deiknuo's Shorter Blog http://shorterblog.wordpress.com Handling warlike texts in a peacemaking church http://shorterblog.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/handling-warlike-texts-in-a-peacemaking-church/ http://shorterblog.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/handling-warlike-texts-in-a-peacemaking-church/#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:37:17 +0000 David http://shorterblog.wordpress.com/?p=258 ]]>

Some great thoughts here about how we handle the violence of the Old Testament in church today

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There’s an article on the BBC news website which gives encouragement to all of us who drink a lot of coffee. Coffee may make us twitchy, but at least it has the potential, so researchers have discovered, to reverse the effect of Alzheimer’s. Read the article here.

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Read this article and watch the embedded video to see Chris Moyles talking up church. Thanks to Baptist Bookworm for this!

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Looking forward to the new football fixtures coming out – less than a couple of months until the new football season starts!

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8082354.stm

OK, this has to be my favourite news story of the day – 194 prison inmates starting on a 1500 mile Tour de France. No breakaway sprints are allowed!

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8080630.stm ]]> http://shorterblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/its-official-eating-curry-is-good-for-you/feed/ 0 deiknuo The technology behind BakerTweet http://shorterblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/the-technology-behind-bakertweet/ http://shorterblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/the-technology-behind-bakertweet/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:16:25 +0000 David http://shorterblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/the-technology-behind-bakertweet ]]>

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8063975.stm

The gadget made especially so that staff at a design firm could get fresh bakery products

]]> http://shorterblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/the-technology-behind-bakertweet/feed/ 0 deiknuo Australian Government sends stimulus package money to dead people and to Australians living overseas http://shorterblog.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/australian-government-sends-stimulus-package-money-to-dead-people-and-to-australians-living-overseas/ http://shorterblog.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/australian-government-sends-stimulus-package-money-to-dead-people-and-to-australians-living-overseas/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 14:06:05 +0000 David http://shorterblog.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/australian-government-sends-stimulus-package-money-to-dead-people-and-to-australians-living-overseas/ ]]>

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8071299.stm ]]> http://shorterblog.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/australian-government-sends-stimulus-package-money-to-dead-people-and-to-australians-living-overseas/feed/ 0 deiknuo Quote from Alan Davies http://shorterblog.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/quote-from-alan-davies/ http://shorterblog.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/quote-from-alan-davies/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 12:32:27 +0000 David http://shorterblog.wordpress.com/?p=240 ]]>

Police are still looking for Manchester United after they failed to turn up in Rome last night.

Alan Davies

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http://consumerist.com/5268367/how-to-tell-if-you-have-religious-food

There seems to be a growing obsession with finding religious lookalikes in the food that we eat. What do you do if you find a snack that you think is shaped into a Jesus-like figure, or some other religious icon? ]]> http://shorterblog.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/religious-food/feed/ 0 deiknuo