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Internet addiction
Borrowed from a Usenet Newsgroup..:-) Binge eating, not sleeping, or napping whilst still sat at your computer, are you isolated and cut off from the real world. Socially awkward and inept. Are you a wimp unable to establish real life relationships but online are you an aggressive intolerant bully. Do you suffer withdrawal symptoms when […]
Thinking Biblically About Facebook
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 by Justin Buzzard Continuing the Ten Topics series I’m teaching this fall, tomorrow night I’m delivering a message titled, Facebook: Technology and Relationships. This message explores technology’s impact on how we do relationships and how followers of Jesus ought to engage technology. Because of its extreme popularity (especially where I live), […]
Blogging makes you happy
Blog your way to happiness July 3, 2008 Blogging makes you happy – it’s official. Elissa Baxter reports. WHEN the first blogs (short for web logs, or online diaries) were posted in late 1998, they were a novelty. Today, blogging is so ubiquitous that health professionals have begun investigating the health effects of blogging as […]
Blessing for People Overwhelmed by E-mail
As the internet becomes more prevalent in our lives, help me adapt to the changes it brings. Standing in awe of pictures and maps received on my screen from around the world let me not forget to actually go outside. Guide me to discern which e-mail is important, which to delete, and which furthers peace […]
Who Will Rule The New Internet?
Wednesday, Jun. 04, 2008 By JOSH QUITTNER/SAN FRANCISCO Correction Appended: June 6, 2008 Technology, San Francisco Bay old-timers tell me, blooms in four-year cycles. When I first moved her… April Fooled by Google and Virgin? Now that Google has effectively conquered Earth, the all-powerful Web giant is setting its sites on … How Apple Does […]
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
July/August 2008 Atlantic Monthly What the Internet is doing to our brains by Nicholas Carr “Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Bowman, […]
Stupefied by the info superhighway
Andrew Sullivan | June 16, 2008 THERE’S something I didn’t know: Friedrich Nietzsche used a typewriter. Many of those terse aphorisms and impenetrable reveries were banged out on an 1882 Malling-Hansen Writing Ball. And a friend of his at the time noticed a change in the German philosopher’s style as soon as he moved from […]
A Facebook group called Faithbook
A Facebook group called Faithbook has been launched to improve relations between different religions. Most people join the social networking website to get in touch with old friends or share embarrassing photos, while last weekend it was used to organise a drunken party on the London Underground. But the creators of the new group hope […]
Widow: My husband died from online drugs
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/05/21/online.drugs/index.html WICHITA, Kansas (CNN) — She found her husband on their bed in a pool of his own vomit, dead from an accidental overdose of drugs he received from an online pharmacy. Every night before her husband went to bed, he would open a prescription bottle of the muscle relaxant Soma and swallow the eight […]
Usenet Post from Rowland 19th May, 2008
Note to two posters on aus.religion.christian and alt.christnet.christianlife: Because our conversations can’t apparently be civil, it is not helpful for us to continue talking past each other, IMO. So I won’t be reading or responding directly to any of your posts here on arc. If you regard this as a victory, I’m happy for you. […]
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