10, Binary 26 Edition

What? We’re not in a new decade yet? December 2010 ends the 3rd phase of a decade of research at the National Study of Youth and Religion. A lot of really interesting preliminary findings available to sift through here. The Arts Council of England is funding this inspiring app that i’d love to copy/paste. And maybe OpenLayers will let me do it. Plus, did you know you can order replacement parts for most board games and toys? What’s stopping you from building lite-brite furniture now? An inexplicable viewpoint from subdivision planner Rick Harrison (from a Milwaukee Journal piece): “People don’t want to walk five minutes to a park,” said Harrison. “They want to see it outside their window. And they don’t want to see their neighbors and they don’t want to sit on their porch all day.” He calls it “Prefurbia“. Developing new suburbs and exurbs, no matter how “sustainable” we make them, seems like a bad idea to me. State capitalism: the worst of all worlds? And is the Fox News broadcast really the best place to evangelize Tiger Woods? The row over Allah continues: Muslim groups in Malaysia protesting use of the word Allah firebomb christian churches. Still seems like a non-issue: it’s a pre-islamic arabic word that means “the one God”. Case closed? As always, drop your related comments or links below.

[ posted by danhq @ January 10th, 2010 in Free Reads! ] >> [ 0 comments ] >> [ ]