Random

~ The trend toward personalization and specialization in funeral services continues. Check out this new Harley Hearse. I know a few people who will be excited about this option. (via)

~ John Morehead has a brief interview with Terry Muck which touches on the issue of why it is essential for evangelicals to be involved in inter-faith dialog. He's right but "dialog" sounds so liberal -- so much like we're giving up the gospel imperatives in order to have a nice pc conversation. Of course, that's not the true nature of dialog.

~ Note to self: Don't ever buy property on the border.

~ McDonald's has Shrek green straws as a part of their promotional. Cool.

~ I finally got around to watching the season finale of Heroes. Oh, that was anti-climactic and predictable. We'll have to see if they can recover enough to make the second season worth the time.

~ It sounds like Kevin David has accepted the call to serve as the lead pastor of Cornerstone Covenant Church, the position I left in order to serve at PIBC.

~ I chatted with Dave Owen yesterday. He's in San Diego, trying to get used to the cold. San Diego is like Guam in that it has a small predictable temperature range. Typically SD has a high of about 72 degrees and a low of perhaps 60 degrees. Guam's typical high is 88 degrees and the low is 78.

~ There are tangible benefits to choosing marriage over living together -- Don Johnson summarizes the Economist article.

~ It happened again this past week -- email sent to someone with a Hotmail account never made it through. Their filtering system is so primitive that most of the email I send to those addresses ends up in the spam/trash box. I do have a Hotmail account of my own for experimental purposes -- and even though I've never given the address out or posted it on the web -- it gets spam in the in box. Whatever they're doing at Hotmail just doesn't work. Gmail does.

~ Worth a look: David Fitch's post "Postmodernity as Good News for the Church"

~ Worth a look: Kurt Fredrickson on the American church's low-grade fever

~ Rapidly emerging trend: Facebook and iLike