Random

• Apparently David Scholer, one of the great American New Testament theologians of the last 50 years has crossed the finish line. He was an outstanding scholar and a genuine man of faith -- approachable -- passionate and steady. He was an acquaintance of mine from his time at North Park Seminary. ~ link

• Buy a 250 sq ft condo in San Francisco for $279,000. It's a foot in the door -- but not much more would fit. ~ link

• More on the removal of trays from college cafeterias -- have we reached a tipping point? ~ link

• Google decided that for some reason I needed to be a part of the iGoogle left navigation experiment -- completely screwed up my iGoogle start page to deliver a set of features that I don't want and can't get rid of. They are redundant and aren't my style -- the gadgets don't work -- and there is no way to opt out in the system. This is the first time that I've been really annoyed with Google.

I've been playing with my old my.yahoo.com page -- lots of cool new stuff over there these days sending out a siren's call.

• North Korean answer to national malnutrition -- develop a noodle that keeps people from feeling hungry -- the old ignore the disease, treat the symptom trick -- assuming that the noodle actually functions as advertised ~ link

• "Greenland ice core reveals history of pollution in the Arctic -- but there’s a twist, it was worse 100 years ago" ~ link (via)