Gospel Living

HT to Kevin DeYoung for introducing us to Julian Smith and wasting the next couple of hours of my life on YouTube.  Thanks for that.

HT: David Mora via Facebook.  (If you haven’t seen the humorous video that inspired this, extend your Funny Friday with Edward Khil, a.k.a., The Trololo Guy .)

Remember this gem from last year?

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Last month, several companies sent out warnings that their vendor company, Epsilon, had been hacked .  The result, at least in my inbox, has been a surge of spam emails. If you have a good spam mail filter, you'll probably find many of these emails go in your "junk" folder.  Those messages that fool the filters, however, might fool you, as well. For instance, a number of important upgrades have appeared in my inbox for products I use.  If you are in the middle of something else and not paying much attention, it may be tempting to simply click the link, provide your info, and step away from your screen to let the program do its thing.  Usually, that includes mining your address book for contacts and installing tracking cookies or something even more sinister in your now compromised system. Your closer look at the senders' email addresses will help you out.  For instance, here's one I received from someone claiming to be Adobe Support did not have an "ad...

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(HT: digitizd )

Just in case you are still wowed by email or still think "LOL" is funny: (Click for larger image, lol) (HT: Digitizd )

Tim Challies posted on AOL's release of search data. I highly recommend you read it. Now. :) What is so amazing about these searches is the way people transition seamlessly from the normal and mundane to the outrageous and perverse. They are, thus, an apt reflection of real life. The user who is in one moment searching for information about a computer game may in the next be looking for the most violent pornography he can imagine. Back and forth it goes, from information about becoming a foster parent to the search for incestual pornography. One user went from searching for preteen pornography to searching for games appropriate for a youth group. Others, spurned lovers, sought out ways of exacting revenge while still others grappled with the moral implications of cheating on their spouses. These searches are a glimpse into the hearts of the people who made them. It's hard to be exact with what is going through the minds of people as they search for items. However, it is vit...

(Courtesy of Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary )