pimg alt="Desire and Deceit" src="http://www.challies.com/media/desire-and-deceit.jpg" width="120" height="192" style="padding-right:8px;float:left" /Dr. Albert Mohler has released four books this year and they have had very different origins. ema href="http://www.challies.com/archives/book-reviews/book-review-atheism-remix.php"Atheism Remix/a/em began as the W.H. Griffith Thomas Lectures Mohler delivered at Dallas Theological Seminary early in 2008; ema href="http://www.challies.com/archives/book-reviews/he-is-not-silent.php"He Is Not Silent/a/em is an original work, written as a book; ema href="http://www.challies.com/archives/book-reviews/culture-shift-by-dr-albert-mohler-1.php"Culture Shift/a/em and his most recent work, emDesire and Deceit/em, began as articles written over a period of years, most of which were posted at Mohler's blog. Each of these books speaks to a different subject that is of great importance in our cultural context./p pemDesire and Deceit/em is subtitled "The Real Cost of the New Sexual Tolerance." In this book Dr. Mohler addresses issues related to sexuality and, in particular, issues related to contemporary challenges on biblical sexuality. It begins in a unique spot, quoting J.R.R. Tolkien and the biblical wisdom he shared with his sons, warning them to avoid the devil's snares in deviant sexuality. From here Mohler looks at lust in both a secular perspective (quoting philosopher Simon Blackburn) and a Christian perspective (reviewing Joshua Harris' book emNot Even a Hint/em, a.k.a. emSex Is Not the Problem, Lust Is/em). Two chapters look at issues related to pornography while ten turn to homosexuality. Mohler wants his reader to understand that the acceptance of homosexuality on the part of Christians can only be done at the expense of critical doctrines and ultimately only at the expense of Christianity itself; the two cannot co-exist. He offers character studies of Alfred Kinsey and Andrew Sullivan, shows how male friendship has been negatively impacted by the widespread acceptance of homosexuality, looks to boys raised by lesbian mothers, and explains the historical developments that allowed homosexuality to become accepted and celebrated in our culture. A final three chapters look to the age of polymorphous perversity, turning to Freud and his followers who championed the idea that every child is a clean slate when it comes to sexual identity; it is only restraint and repression that keeps people from becoming who they are really meant to be. Overall, the book presents a solid, useful primer on issues related to sexuality and the many ways our culture is turning from biblical categories of sexuality./p pThose who, as I am, are regular readers of Dr. Mohler's blog, may find that they recognize some of the chapters. In fact, several of these chapters are almost unchanged from their original form. Though there is some thematic cohesion in the book as it moves from topic-to-topic and chapter-to-chapter, the book's genesis as scattered blog posts does show even as the book gets printed and put between two hard covers. Unavoidably, the book reads more as a series of articles than as a work that moves consistently and logically towards a certain conclusion./p pI suppose my sole wish for the book is that Dr. Mohler would have dedicated just a little more time to proposing solutions and to suggesting how Christians are to live in the midst of new realities. Certainly there is some of this, but not as much as I might have liked. It may be that this is unavoidable in moving articles from a blog format to a book. Still, a little more application would have been nice./p pemDesire and Deceit/em completes the list of four books coming from Dr. Mohler's pen in 2008. Like its predecessors, this book is both valuable and timely and is worth adding to any library. It deals with real issues and offers valuable guidance on them. 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spana href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001GCUC1S/dietofbookwor1-20" target="_blank"Lloyd-Jones on the Kindle/a/spanbr / emGreat Doctrines of the Bible/em is available for the Kindle for a measly $7.99. You're not going to find the printed edition for anywhere near that! hr / spana href="http://www.boundless.org/2005/articles/a0001863.cfm" target="_blank"Behold the Temple/a/spanbr / Justin Taylor writes an article for Boundless about the temple. "Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to step inside Herod's Temple in Jerusalem? It may surprise you to learn that Jesus himself never had this experience, since he never entered the Temple itself." hr / spana href="http://politics.mync.com/2008/10/author-donald-miller-speaks-on-faith-and-politics-at-unc-sunday/" target="_blank"Stumping for Obama/a/spanbr / Donald Miller was recently stumping for Obama at UNC, discussing "why he believes Senator Barack Obama is the candidate who will bring about the change we need in North Carolina." a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2088037/posts" target="_blank"This article/a also covers the tour. hr / spana href="http://www.culture-making.com/post/visualizing_the_bible/" target="_blank"Visualizing the Bible/a/spanbr / Culture Making blog points to an interesting (and beautiful) diagram of biblical cross-references. hr / spana href="http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/onsite/esvstudybible.html" target="_blank"ESV Study Bible Giveaway/a/spanbr / You can win a leather-bound ESV Study Bible at Monergism.com. hr / spana href="http://www.chrisbrauns.com/2008/10/06/the-forgiveness-quiz-ends-wednesday-and-the-book-giveaway-begins-on-friday/" target="_blank"The Forgiveness Quiz/a/spanbr / Chris Brauns wants you to take a forgiveness quiz. If you do, you can win a copy of his [excellent] book. hr / spana href="http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/wealthyboomer/archive/2008/10/03/grandpa-at-the-casino-s-one-advisor-s-take-the-financial-crisis.aspx" target="_blank"Grandpa at the Casino/a/spanbr / This article offers one financial adviser's take on this financial crisis. hr / spana href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122178219865054585.html" target="_blank"Look Who's Irrational Now!/a/spanbr / ""What Americans Really Believe," a comprehensive new study released by Baylor University yesterday, shows that traditional Christian religion greatly decreases belief in everything from the efficacy of palm readers to the usefulness of astrology. It also shows that the irreligious and the members of more liberal Protestant denominations, far from being resistant to superstition, tend to be much more likely to believe in the paranormal and in pseudoscience than evangelical Christians." hr /a href="http://www.worldwide-classroom.com"img src="http://www.adgrab.org/www/images/468x60.jpg" //adiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?a=251mM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?i=251mM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?a=k7y2m"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?i=k7y2m" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?a=IdMhm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?i=IdMhm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/challies/XhEt/~4/413669645" height="1" width="1"/

This video is entirely created in Processing. It's a great open source programming language that was developed for both electronic and visual artists. It's also the program the Arduino IDE is based on. Amazing work!

This is the HD and finished version of my video 'Music Is Math'. I just let the program run till the end of the music, I felt reluctant to interfere too much by trying to sculpt an ending, and just let the code run its own natural course. Music by Board of Canada.

More about Music Is Math

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Its not just for co-founders anymore: if you lurk where the Googlers hang out, you may spot an Android-powered phone.

pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/networking/" rel="tag"Networking/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.cellular-news.com/story/33993.php"img hspace="4" vspace="4" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/10/led_wifi.jpg" //abr //div If researchers at Boston University's College of Engineering have their way, light bulbs of the future may be the highway your data gets carried along. A team at the school is working on low-power LEDs which could utilize an optical communication system to carry data wirelessly. Using a technique which rapidly switches the LEDs on and off data transmissions could be made via imperceptible -- yet undoubtedly brain-scrambling -- flickering patterns, and each light would be its own network entry point at speeds of 1 to 10Mbps. The concept is more secure than current RF techniques because it requires linked devices be in line-of-sight, and the technology would draw far less energy than conventional radios. Says professor Thomas Little, "Imagine if your computer, iPhone, TV, radio and thermostat could all communicate with you when you walked in a room just by flipping the wall light switch and without the usual cluster of wires." Yes... and talk about you behind your back. And plot your "accidental" death after taking out a large life insurance policy on you. You won't get away with this LED network!br /br /[Thanks, Travis]h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.cellular-news.com/story/33993.phpRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/07/light-bulb-networks-could-be-the-next-wifi/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1334891/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/07/light-bulb-networks-could-be-the-next-wifi/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~a/weblogsinc/engadget?a=W6IEKs"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~a/weblogsinc/engadget?i=W6IEKs" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=dIV4m"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=dIV4m" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=ohLZm"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=ohLZm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/413679387" height="1" width="1"/

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Toshiba propose son Portégé M800-100, un nouvel ordinateur ultraportable au format 13.3’’ sous plateforme Centrino 2 orienté vers le public professionnel. Le Toshiba Portégé M800-100 possède un processeur Core 2 Duo T9400 (2.53 GHz), 3 Go DDR2 667 MH, un disque dur SATA de 320 Go à 5400 tr/min, un chipset graphique Intel GMA X4500HD jusqu’à [...]img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LaptopSpirit/~4/413693168" height="1" width="1"/

The U.S. and Iraq are close to a deal to keep U.S. troops in this country next year but it will take "bold political decisions" to overcome the final hurdles, Iraq's foreign minister said Tuesday.

The ransom demand for a hijacked Ukrainian ship carrying tanks and weapons has been cut to $8m, according to one of the Somali pirates on board

The small island takes control of Landsbanki to offset a potential catastrophe.

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Sunday we reported on an interview with an MSI manager, who stated that internal research had shown that the return rate for the Linux version of MSI's Wind netbook was four times as high as that of the Windows XP version. He claimed that the unfamiliarity of people with Linux was the culprit. This claim sparked some serious discussion around the net, but now MSI's statement is being repeated by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu.

h4Fraud reporting recommendations ignored/h4 pMembers of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee will this Friday call on ministers to do more to battle security threats online..../p

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The Philippine embassy in London complains over a sketch featuring a Filipina maid in Harry Enfield's BBC show.

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As I noted (to much derision from the peanut gallery) back in August, Tina Fey bears a striking resemblance to Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin. It seemed like an innocuous observation to me - they both looked pretty similar to me. Vindication from comments like “you are trashing the site with the political drivel” came several weeks later when Tina Fey appeared on Saturday Night Live impersonating the political candidate.

The skit was subject to much discussion and dissection, as it was wildly popular online, and has been credited by some analysts I’ve spoken to as being the reason why the comedy show has seen a ratings boost in recent weeks (in addition to the millions of views accrued across Hulu, NBC.com and YouTube from that skit alone).

So hungry for viral video views was NBC and SNL that they even uploaded a copy of the skit to YouTube, something that hasn’t been done since NBC entered into joint venture with Fox with Hulu.

It seems that NBC might have a double standard, though, when it comes to where their viral video hits come from. A number of mostly right-wing political pundits are noting this evening that Hulu, NBC, and YouTube have all pulled what was an incredibly hilarious video lampooning the bailout bill announcement from CSPAN.

The reason being posited? The clip mercilessly lampooned billionaire liberal activist George Soros and the Democrat position in presenting the bailout bill. I’ll be honest - it sounds like a plausible position.  Not only have many of the cast members (including Tina Fey herself) come out as saying they’d much rather Palin were defeated at the polls than continue to have these wildly popular skits, but the skit is one of very few on the show that has portrayed Democrats in such a negative light in a long time.

Setting aside the politics for a moment, the skit (which I had the good fortune to see on Hulu before it was pulled this morning) is absolutely hilarious. It doesn’t do the skit justice, but Michelle Malkin was good enough to transcribe it and post it to her personal blog (Update: Pat Dollard has bravely locally hosted the clip at his blog). It’s definitely worth checking out.

What makes things look even worse for NBC in this case is that they’re not only going about the business of removing the clip wherever it showed up, but they’re also removing any comments that inquire as to what happened to the clip and why it was removed.

Is NBC really that far into the pocket of the Democrats or is there a more plausible explanation? I searched for one all over, and the answers were a bit difficult to arrive at due to the fact that none on the liberal side of the political blogosphere seemed willing to cover the story at all. The only clues I were able to find were from a blurb towards the end of one of Michelle Malkin’s pieces covering the topic:

One of the rapacious couples featured in the skit was Herbert and Marion Sandler (portrayed by Darrell Hammond and Casey Wilson). Unlike the other composite figures, the Sandlers are a real-life couple.

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As Todd Thurman at Heritage notes, the Sandlers are left-wing moguls who built “a mortgage company whose major product was subprime mortgages and they sold it to Wachovia for $24.2 billion in 2006. And what do the Sandlers do when they are not peddling subprime garbage? They are busy writing checks to leftist groups like the Center for American Progress, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). Yes that ACORN.”

The Sandlers are seething over the skit. And George Soros must be livid as well. Anyone else smell a legal threat behind the disappearance of the vid?

As you can see from the screenshot of the video, the segment with Herbert and Marion Sandler is subtitled “People who should be shot.”  We all know that Saturday Night Live is a comedy show, and that much worse things are said about folks on comedy programs on a daily basis, but the likely silver bullet here is that the Sandlers knew that this skit portrayed not only themselves in a bad light, but their ideology.

From here, the theoretical story diverges based on your personal ideology. One version says that with the Sandlers being people of means, it was likely no big feat to unleash the lawyers on NBC. As billionaires themselves (and likely backed up by their friend George Soros), NBC was forced to pull the clips and aggressively pursue those who would re-post it on YouTube (as well as remove all comments inquiring on the matter due the pending legal case).

The other version says that the Sandlers and Soros rang up Lorne Michaels and said: “Buddy. Pal. Friend. Get that crap of the intarwebs. It’s only hurting the cause, and we’ll compensate you the thirty bucks you would have made from your Partner Account on YouTube on all those video views.”

Does This Have a Meaning Beyond Petty Political Views?
Regardless of which version you believe, it does mark a very unusual situation for information dispersion on the web. On the one hand, the toothpaste is out of the tube, and certain segments of the population know about it.  On the other, due to a confluence of ideology and business interests, several very powerful forces (both in terms of corpo