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• "President-elect Barack Obama plans to tape a weekly address not just for radio listeners, as presidents have for years, but for YouTube Internet viewers, too." The real change will come if he does a weekly address for YouTube and then allows the radio stations to use it, too -- in spite of the fact that they'll be missing the critical graphic component. ~ link

• An anonymous donor has given $50 million to Wycliffe Bible Translators, the largest single gift they've ever received, to be used in translating the Bible into languages which don't yet have a translation. ~ link

• Ann E. Dunwoody -- first female four-star general in US military history -- and a sense of humor. "There is no one more surprised than I -- except, of course, my husband. You know what they say, 'Behind every successful woman there is an astonished man.'" ~ link

• Westmont College student newspaper live-blogging through the fire crisis ~ link

• Deacons in the United Methodist Church are going to be able to officiate in the sacraments if the local bishop thinks it is necessary. ~ link