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Should Women fight on the front lines?…they do in Narnia

May 28th, 2008 · 8 Comments

There is an interesting post about the new Narnia film depicting Susan fighting in the battles when she does not in the books at the CBMW and how the director argues that he want to represent secular opinion on women fighting on the front lines stating: "When the issue of Susan not participating in the [...]

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Mid Week round up

May 13th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Probably the first of its kind in the UK, Worship Central, a really superb ministry from Holy Trinity Brompton, has worked with Kings College London to produce an MA in contemporary worship.   Tearfund have begun publishing Daily prayer podcasts, though somehow whilst moving house last week I lost my iPod!Trevin Wax writes well on the subject [...]

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Mid Week Round Up

April 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Plenty of News and good blogging going right now, these are in no particular order there is tech, apple, theology and everything else crammed in:The mighty design software company adobe has released a beta version of free web based software called Photoshop Express. It has some great tools for retouching and free storage. Best of [...]

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End of Week roundup

February 1st, 2008 · No Comments

As you can tell I have had somewhat of a hectic week and attempt (through various technological means) to blog some of it. Norway was fun but hard work in many aspects and so now I am looking forward to relaxing over the weekend. Im going to see Cloverfield tonight with my ole flatmate Fraser [...]

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Charlie Wilson’s War in review

January 16th, 2008 · No Comments

"In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas who seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, prodded by his major conservative supporter, Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight of the people are suffering in the [...]

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The Golden Compass - More reviews

January 10th, 2008 · No Comments

Relevant published a good review on the Golden Compass which highlighted what an excellent film it was and answered some of the Christian politics surrounding it with: The American Christian response to The Golden Compass feeds Pullman’s view of religion in general and Christianity in particular. In his world, a movie that would dare call the Magisterium to task [...]

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Apple to reduce UK downloads to 74p within 6 months

January 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Apple is to reduce UK downloads to 74p from the current 79p within 6 months says BBCThis is well overdue, Ive given up on the iTunes store apart from the odd impulse buy, its not all as good as it sounds either as apple only plan to match continental european prices which are 74p not the [...]

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Pandora Shut down in the UK

January 8th, 2008 · No Comments

This is an email I hoped I would never have to send. As you probably know, in July of 2007 we had to block usage of Pandora outside the U.S. because of the lack of a viable license structure for Internet radio streaming in other countries. It was a terrible day. [...]

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Golden Compass - Fuss over nothing?

December 13th, 2007 · 2 Comments

I saw the Golden Compass over the weekend, really enjoyed it and am perplexed as to why there is so much outrage about it. Quite possibly a clever marketing scam? If so they have many hooked and lined. I am willing to be wrong and deny my desire to see the rest of [...]

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Open Letters

November 5th, 2007 · No Comments

Dear People Behind the "Now That’s What I Call Music!" Series, We’re just going to have to agree to disagree. Yours,Maggie Koerth Quite. HT: Daily Awesome More Here, well worth a read These were pretty funny for me as our friend Leslie Stephen wrote [...]

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