Random

~ I arrived on Guam at 4 a.m. this morning. Hiob picked me up at the airport. I've put together a small slideshow of pictures from the Singapore trip. Other than the long layovers in Manila it was a good trip -- met great people, got good ideas, and saw some great places I'd never seen before. This picture is from our hotel window in Singapore.

~ Smoking in New York City has fallen 20%.

~ Many Internet radio stations to go silent June 26th.

~ Tapping into the Google blacklist of malware sites.

~ Eugene gives testimony to the academic pressure that the children of Asian immigrants are under. He also notes a NY Times story about eldest children developing higher IQs. I don't know about that. I think that both of my younger brothers have more brains than I have.

~ CIA to reveal decades of misdeeds. Oh, my -- this won't be pretty. But it seems necessary.

~ Vernard Eller the great anabaptist theologian has died. Great loss.

~ Do Baptists constitute the holy remnant of the true church? A part of the unbroken succession that can be traced to the New Testament church? The president of the SBC is more than implying such. 8-)

~ I saw an ad in CT for a "teaching pastor" in a fairly young Chicago area church -- "a man who is 28 to 40..." Sounds kind of boxy. What if God sent someone who is 27 or 42 or 51? Or a woman? Can young people learn from old? Can old people learn from the young? Since when did God become so tied to demographics in calling pastors?

~ Google is going to save the world with the same enthusiasm it has for organizing the world's information.

~ We bought the tickets for Kent's trip to Korea -- July 22nd - August 5th. The whole thing is being paid for by some program he found. He will be doing his senior thesis at UCI next year on something about Korean migration (maybe he'll comment on the details) -- which makes a lot of sense for his poli-sci major but not a Spanish minor. Nope, you don't want to get too locked into a single region of the world.

~ Nigerian Pastor Sunday Adelaja, who leads a megachurch in Kiev, Ukraine, has been touring the US with a message. (via)

~ World's most expensive cities