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:: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 ::

This blog banned in China?
China has blocked blogspot blogs like this one, according to a Reuters Asia report (via Google News). The ban comes as a Chinese court and a U.S.-based rights group said an Internet activist in the western region of Xinjiang had been tried for subversion, a crime that carries the death penalty. Tao Haidong, 45, was arrested last July for posting articles judged objectionable on Web sites. He was tried on January 8 and was awaiting sentencing in the provincial capital of Urumqi, the court and New York-based Human Rights in China said Wednesday.

News of the ban brought this response from a 20-year-old college student in the southern city of Hangzhou who calls herself "Leylop" on the Internet: "I was pissed off. Blockage only causes more dissent. The bloggers who have something to say won't be deterred by the blockage at all. We'll find other ways."

Information still wants to be free.

And in other news and views from the blogosphere...

Just in from The Onion (via Holy Weblog!):

Supernatural Powers Vested In Local Pastor
BILOXI, MS—Michael Cotto, 27, and Laura Winningham, 26, were pronounced husband and wife Monday, thanks to the supernatural powers vested in local Presbyterian minister Gerald Dreisbach by the Lord Himself. "We are so lucky to live near a man who is an actual conduit of God's will," Cotto told reporters after the ceremony. "We wouldn't have been able to get married otherwise." Dreisbach has also used his otherworldly authority to call for good fortune in the lives of parishioners, as well as swift passage to heaven for the deceased.

Why do you get up in the morning?
The question of telos is a question about one's "end." The Westminster Catechism asks, "What is the chief end of man?" In our time, it might sound more like this: What is the purpose of life? What is human existence all about, anyway? Thought-provoking stuff from Worldview Foundations, via Gideon Strauss. (P.S. Gideon, I can actually understand this one. Sort of. Thanks for dumbing down your blog for me.)

From the "it had to happen eventually" department: "Survivor," Genesis-style
The geniuses at Ship of Fools are at it again, creating a game from the Genesis tale of Noah and the Ark. Link via Richard Hall.

A pretty cool photo of a big red cross

Censoring Christian films
For the first time in its 25-year history, Regent University is developing "artistic guidelines'' for film students to follow when making movies at the evangelical Christian school. "It talks about the attitude of the Christian towards the arts,'' said Robert J. Schihl, who became dean of Regent's communications school last July. "We're not here to censor.'' More at ChristianityToday's Weblog. (Disclosure: Schihl endorsed my book eMinistry, so I think he's an all-right guy.)

:: Andrew 08:19 + ::
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