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Take that, Wikipedia. Copyright 1978. (Taken with instagram)

I could watch The Civil Wars cover Michael Jackson all day. This is awesome.

(from Wired.com)

My thoughts? Pretty simple: Fill my shelves and my eReader, and you have my business.

“Amazon started out with a mission to make a low-cost, entry-level tablet that felt as fast as an iPad and cost so little that even people who would balk at the iPad 2′s cheap $499 price could afford to buy one. And it looks, like all accounts, that they succeeded.” - The Cult of Mac

Indeed, many foreign students eventually arrive at the shameful conclusion that the Chinese are mastering English far more quickly than vice versa. “There is no competition!” said Prof Li. “The passion that Chinese have for learning English is much greater. All of our exams, the university exams and the exams for professional certificates judge you on English skills. So unless the rest of the world implements an identical scheme in its schools, Chinese will never manage to penetrate as deeply.

The rise and rise of Mandarin – but how many will end up speaking it? - Telegraph

translation: “you foreigners are too lazy to learn Chinese.”

(via notadinnerparty)

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My church, Providence PCA, is currently offering a masters-level course on Biblical counseling (or more simply, discipleship) taught by seminary professor, Dr. George Scipione (from Pittsburgh’s RPTS). Since we’re also posting mp3s of Dr. Scipione’s sessions each week online, feel free to take advantage of this awesome resource! (Or just click to play the first session, an introduction to Biblical counseling.)

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NPR Music’s First Listen is streaming the new Blind Pilot album in its entirety, now until September 13th (the day it’s released). I love their album 3 Rounds and a Sound (2008) and will be purchasing We Are The Tide in two weeks! Until then, listen away…

If a person sees and delights in the beauty of your language, but does not yet see the beauty of the Lord Jesus, you have given them not only a witness to his beauty but an invitation. You have said, “It’s like this, only better. The beauty of my words is the shadow. Christ, who created and sustains and mercifully accepts imperfect beauty, is the substance. Turn to him. Go to him.
John Piper, from a talk asking the question, Is there such a thing as Christian eloquence?