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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
Trends for the church in 2015
The social transformation work seen during recent trip to the Philippines could be an example for American churches to engage their communities. Thom Rainer began a blog series about trends in 2015 for churches. Rainer (2015) suggested one of the trends would be...
Megacommunity thinking
A great pastor, Lowell Bakke, explained Paul's letter to the Philippians as a treatise on partnership, which made me think about the concept of megacommunities. A megacommunity consists of organizations from the business, government, and civil sectors joining forces...
Casino panopticon: a look at the CCTV room in the Vegas Aria
Via Boing Boing: The valuable trend in surveillance, Whiting says, is toward this data-driven analysis (even when much of the job still involves old-fashioned gumshoe work). "It's the data," he says, "And cameras now are data. So it's all data. It's just learning to...
Game to destroy CCTV cameras: vandalism or valid protest?
Via Boing Boing and Guardian: This is Camover, a new game being played across Berlin, which sees participants trashing cameras in protest against the rise in close-circuit television across Germany. The game is real-life Grand Theft Auto for those tired of being...
Game to destroy CCTV cameras: vandalism or valid protest?
Via Boing Boing and Guardian: This is Camover, a new game being played across Berlin, which sees participants trashing cameras in protest against the rise in close-circuit television across Germany. The game is real-life Grand Theft Auto for those tired of being...
Study casts doubt on idea that spending more per student leads to better educational outcomes
Via Inside Higher Ed: Research presented here by researchers from Wabash College -- and based on national data sets -- finds that there may be a minimal relationship between what colleges spend on education and the quality of the education students receive. Further,...
Study casts doubt on idea that spending more per student leads to better educational outcomes
Via Inside Higher Ed: Research presented here by researchers from Wabash College -- and based on national data sets -- finds that there may be a minimal relationship between what colleges spend on education and the quality of the education students receive. Further,...
Navy’s Top Geek Says Laser Arsenal Is Just Two Years Away
Via Wired: …shipboard testing is underway. Klunder wouldn’t elaborate, but he said that there have been “very successful” tests placing laser weapons on board a ship. That’s not to say the first order of business for naval laser weaponry will be all that taxing: In...