Another note, another resignation in the election I’m not paying attention to: Gordon Stamp is a Conservative campaign manager for Peter Goldring of Edmonton East. Stamp posted at rant about Alberta separatism at Free Dominion under the name ‘psycho’ Gordon Stamp has stepped down as campaign manager, and Goldring issued this statement:
“This evening [...]

Hilarious! Also, during the Quebec crisis the US supposedly moved tanks to the border. And if the US did decide to invade Canada, it wouldn’t be funny, there would be a lot of dead people. We’d best stay friends.
Invading Canada is an old American tradition. Invading Canada successfully is not.
via: Metafilter

In the chatter below in the comments section of the post - 2005 The year the god-blogs died, Andrew Carrega pointed out a significant decision by a ministry that has been online for 10 years. When I discovered personal computers in 1998 or so, one of the first faith resources I found was GospelCom.net’s [...]

I wandered over to BBC 4 to see if Real Live Preacher is scheduled or has aired for part of a program he participated in.
 Radio is like that - what may be planned can be changed.
Analysis aired it yesterday. - Is God on Their Side?
BBC online news programming has a article (summary) up.
The transcript is [...]

How are faith blogs and the blogosphere doing?
Growth
Blogging continues to grow, but that isn’t a surprise to those who participate. Technorati estimates that the blogosphere doubles every five and a half months. New blog platforms, new tools to track blogs and RSS were dominate this year and pod-casting (audio blogging) came into it’s own.
The explosive [...]

Author Michael Crichton’s speech to a public policy center.
Sounds boring, but it isn’t. Some points…

He starts with his assumptions about Chernobyl.

In other words, the greatest damage to the people of Chernobyl was caused by bad information. These people weren’t blighted by radiation so much as by terrifying but false information. We ought to ponder, [...]

According to The Associated Press, the US National Security Agency has been placing permanent cookies on visitors computers. The cookies aren’t enabled to expire until 2035.

A NSA spokesperson says it was a mistake that was shipped in some software.
Hmmm.

The Religion Newswriters Association put up the top religion stories of 2005.
Which leads me to ask, what did we think were the top religious stories in 2004? 2000?
I’m not a paying member so I won’t find out from the Association archives.
via: The Revealer