A La Carte (8/17)

Popular Highlights - At Amazon you can see the most highlighted passages from the books read by Kindle users. “We combine the highlights of all Kindle customers and identify the passages with the most highlights. The resulting Popular Highlights help readers to focus on passages that are meaningful to the greatest number of people. We show only passages where the highlights of at least three distinct customers overlap, and we do not show which customers made those highlights.”

Who Respects the Human Body? - Nancy Pearcey writes for WND explaining how it came to be that “Gender has become a postmodern concept - fluid, free-floating, completely detached from physical anatomy.”

McKnight Interviews McLaren - There is so much to say about this video which chronicles Brian McLaren’s growing arrogance (“I understand what it’s like to work with that old narrative…”) and his diminishing theology.

A Bedtime Story - I got a laugh out of reading about this bedtime story. “I am sure that the lady who wrote this was so amazingly kind and wonderful. She loves her children and grandchildren. I am sure that she wants them to grow up with strong Christian beliefs and principles. I think however she misses the point. You will see in a moment. She takes classic nursery rhymes and puts a Christian moral twist to it. The only problem is she misses the mark completely.”

Mongolian Throat Singing - This is bizarre but strangely fascinating.

Comments (6)

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Anonymous's picture

Check out this mongolian throat singer performing with Bela Fleckhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzQY_Zi4D40

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Anonymous's picture

Ha! I knew there wouldn’t be many comments before someone mentioned Kongar ‘ol Ondar — the guy who sang with the Flecktones. That’s good stuff.

Strictly speaking, Ondar is Tuvan, which is a different Central Asian group living within the Russian Republic. But the throat singing seems to be part of a common culture.

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Anonymous's picture

On the Kindle highlighting note: I suspect that your “great things about ebooks” tomorrow will NOT include this feature. Maybe it’s just me, but I’m not very interested in what a preponderance of unknown readers found most interesting. I might discuss with someone I know what he or she found particularly interesting, but the consensus of strangers is not how I’d determine which parts of the book to pay attention to.

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Anonymous's picture

What a horrible thing to do to a fairy tale. I’m frankly amazed that she found a publisher. That is the worst piece of moralistic literary violence I’ve come across, and I’ve seen quite a bit.

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Anonymous's picture

I make that Mongolian sound each morning when I wake up. And give me that sound anyday over that Brit’s cockney accent!

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Anonymous's picture

Brian Maclaren…wow…passive-aggressive or what? Define “smug”…hmm…not impressed with his theology of non-theology…which “is” theology…gah…just answer the question already.