Month: May 2008
Moments like this are reminders for me that the songs and trappings of Christian culture are not the hope of the world–Jesus is! We need to make him known. We need to love and seek to serve the world around us through prayer, through faithful evangelism, and through Christ-like service of those in need. Our goal is not building a more air-tight evangelical bubble. Neither should our goal be hoping that our subculture will burst out into the broader culture to great acclaim.
Instead, our goal should be to proclaim Christ and him crucified to the people we go to the school with, work with, and live next door to. Our goal should be to preach the gospel and live lives worthy of that gospel. Our goal should be to use our gifts in every sector of society so that God is glorified.
I mean to post this yesterday, but totally forgot…
Jonathan Wight asked how many covers of “Ring of Fire” one had in one’s iTunes library. For me, the answer is two: Joaquin Phoenix’s from the “Walk the Line” soundtrack, and the oldie but goodie from Social Distortion.
This led to the following random tracks being played after shuffling the results of a search in iTunes for “fire”:
1. “Ring of Fire” — Joaquin Phoenix, Walk The Line Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
2. “City of New Orleans” — Johnny Cash, Ring of Fire, Disc 2
3. “Consuming Fire” — Third Day, Offerings: A Worship Album
4. “Ring of Fire” — Social Distortion, Social Distortion
5. “Fire Woman (N.Y.C. Rock Mix)” — The Cult, Fire Woman EP (import)
6. “Far and Gone” — Day of Fire, Cut & Move
7. “Waiting” — Fireflight, The Healing of Harms
8. “Shine” — By The Tree, World On Fire
9. “Reborn” — Day of Fire, Cut & Move
10. “Wake Me” — Day of Fire, Cut & Move
Apparently, my copy of iTunes has a thing for the Man in Black and Day of Fire. I can live with that.
The May issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your reading pleasure.
Wes has a great round-up of the Mac blogosphere’s reaction to the Psystar Mac clone, as well as bits on Adobe Creative Suite, e-mail clients, Apple’s proceeds from Google referrals, profitability of potential iPhone software sales, and user interfaces. Finally, the blog about the column returns as Son of Bloggable. It’s about time, Wes!
Mark’s understandably unhappy with actions of the MBG (Britian’s RIAA), and notes the fallacy of DRM in light of the closing of MSN Music. Ed has a revised list of GTD applications in this month’s Next Action, while Lee dodges and burns up Photoshop for the Curious.
This month’s desktop pictures are courtesy of David Siebecker, and are from a six-day hike through New Hampshire’s White Mountains. All seems lost for Cortland and company as Lisa makes a last bid for victory, any way she can take it.
Yours truly pounds out a review on Apple’s latest keyboard, while Linus grills Blue Crab. Sylvester is impressed with Drive Genius 2, while ATPM’s Official Pilot™, Flight Officer Lawson, puts the Flipp Premium Leather Case for his iPod through its paces. ATPM is a labor of love, with no staffer receiving compensation, so we really can’t complain when Paul takes time to play with SpacePig.
As always, About This Particular Macintosh is available in a variety of formats for maximum reader comfort. Thanks for reading!
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Read about it in Guns & Ammo, but looks like it could come in handy for lots of different uses.