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Tuesday August 26, 2008

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New WORLD
WORLD Magazine has redesigned their web sites and have done a good job of it.


How Your Printer Tricks You
You may want to file this article for the next time your printer [supposedly] runs out of toner. Here is a guy who got 1800 prints out a printer after it claimed it was out of toner!


Don Miller at DNC
At Don Miller’s site you can read the text of his prayer at the DNC.


Moonbats
Little Green Footballs has some amusing photographs and commentary from the protests that marked the first day of the DNC. “Hatred of the United States makes strange bedfellows, and for now the natural enemies — communists and anarchists — seem to have set aside their differences and agreed to bring down capitalism together.”


Abortion Is About God
This new curriculum from The Bethlehem Institute is now available. It features, of course, John Piper. You may also be interested in this video from Piper.


Flew’s Review
For atheist Anthony Flew has written a rather scathing review of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion. “What is much more remarkable than that economic achievement is that the contents – or rather lack of contents – of this book show Dawkins himself to have become what he and his fellow secularists typically believe to be an impossibility: namely, a secularist bigot.”


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