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Thursday October 5, 2006

Weird: Canada will be broadcasting a new show called “Little Mosque on the Prairie.” “Instead of raising pitchforks, tumbling down hills and selling eggs at the general store, this fictional Muslim family struggles to find its place in Canada’s vast western prairies in a post-September 11, 2001 world.”

Humor: Mumbled Musings has some funny reflections on the Calvinists at the Desiring God conference.

Driscoll: I think everyone else in the blogosphere has already posted this, a friendly discussion between Piper and Driscoll.

Weird: Some Japanese guy recently recited pi to the 100,000th digit. And I have trouble forcing myself to memorize a single verse of Scripture.


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