TUESDAY
+ Clouds which you've probably never seen before -- "lenticular mammatus" in Joplin, MO.

+ bloggedy blog is back up and running.

+ Bruce and Katy Dockter, friends from church, are taking a year off to go live in Mexico. They are starting a blog about their new adventure.

+ Samsung is coming out with a flash memory hard drive that could revolutionize the way we do laptops.

+ Bradley Bergfalk has a little different idea of what constitutes an "emerging church."

+ A high school in the St Louis area is having a bit of controversy over the baccalaureate service (apparently some places still hold them). There is a group which does not want to attend a service where the Quran is read. However, they would be happy to listen to a heretical prosperity preacher. We are so strange.

+ Congratulations to Keith Drury, who has finished hiking the Pacific Crest Trail.

+ A great line from Ashley Woodiwiss's discussion of "radical orthodoxy": What Smith from his Reformed tradition, and RO theologians from their more Anglo-Catholic perspectives, seek is to re-direct Christian loyalties and re-form Christian affections away from the state (unlimited power) and market (unbounded desire), and bend them back towards the church which exists in the world, through God's Spirit, as the singular exemplary human community.

And that would make orthodoxy radical indeed.

+ A new Internet scam involves a malicious intruder invading a computer, encrypting the files, and then sending a ransom note for the key.

+ I fully support the boycott of Carl's Jr restaurants. They've been running raunchy television commercials. This is a company that lacks both scruples and brains. So, I'm not sure how responsive they'll be to a boycott. After all they didn't clean-up their act after I complained in 2003 about their Hugh Hefner commercials.