The first edition of Who Reads What is up. Now I need sleep, I have a breakfast meeting at 6:45.

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Give Peas a Chance

I laughed out loud.

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amazon4God? Who Links Amazon?

It dawned on me today that I have half a meg of info about how people in Who Links Who link to Amazon.com (and it's various national variants) and I thought I'd try an experiment, what are the top listed books / items on the minds of blogs4God's 1000 or so bloggers?

I counted the number of unique sites where the book was found, and here's what I found.

7 : Rick Warren: The Purpose-Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?

4 : adventures in missing the point
4 : The Emerging Church

3 : John Eldredge: Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul :
3 : A Cry of Stone
3 : Reclaiming God's Original Intent for the Church
3 : Joshua Harris: Not Even a Hint
3 : The Divine Conspiracy
3 : C. S. Lewis: The Screwtape Letters

After that it's a wack of 2s.

Right now I only work with URLs that match the 'ASIN/some number' patern somewhere in the URL. I know Amzon has some other formats, and I'll work on picking those up as well.

I plan on listing the source web sites in true WLW fasion. It would also be fun to pull more book info from Amazon and inclue that in the list.

So what do you think: Is this worth working on?

Angella has posted some of the tributes to Tooker Gomburg on their web site: Greenspiration. From
Farewell, Tooker

He convinced Edmonton engineers to adopt a scheme whereby a small city investment was used to pay for energy efficiency retrofits to an energy hog of a hockey arena. In this brilliant plan, the arena's yearly savings in operating costs were then applied to the city's second-worst energy hog, and so on. The entire program, save for the modest initial investment, was to be financed exclusively through savings.

Now that's smart.

I posted my memories of Tooker earlier this month.

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Import Tuner: Honda Stalks Wild Game

Honda has joined up with Thumbworks to put out Element Surfing, an arcade game you can play on select mobile phones that puts the spotlight on Honda's wacky Element SUV.

Just on cell phones, pity. This is Honda's second go at placing the Element in a game, the first was SSX 3 . Though in SSX the Element was in the background as a sponsor, it sounds like the new game puts the box wonder at the center of the action. Honda's been doing some imaginative marketing of the Element.

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Good Question: Incarnate Forever - Christianity Today Magazine: What is the scriptural and theological support for the teaching that Jesus, the God-man, remains eternally incarnate?
Answered by J.I. Packer.

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CFCN: Standoff ends peacefully

A three hour standoff in the city's south west Sunday afternoon ended peacefully.

Just after 2 p.m., the man called 9-1-1 saying he barricaded himself in the house in the community of Millrise and had a weapon.

Police surrounded the home and started negotiations. The man came out on his own and was taken to hospital for treatment.

Police say they have been to the same house before. The man had been drinking at the time of the standoff. No weapons were found in the home.

We watched this happen from out back window. The house in question is across the ally from us. There must have been twenty cops. I saw at least 8 SWAT team members, tons of other officers, a K9 unit and they had an amulance standing by. The news report only mentions one man. But we watched officers take another man who came out of the house an hour before.

CFCN played a clip of Kim talking about watching the cops take the guy down.

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Reverend Joyleaf told me about this great ad: I Feel Great. Too funny.

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LeadershipJournal.net - Catching The Passion Wave
Mel's movie caused a cultural wave, and we chose to ride it.
By Rick Warren

I think it's great that Rick's Church has been able to ride the wave of the passion. But what bugs me is it was all organized by his church. Why aren't the people of his church taking friends to see interesting movies and talking about them on a regular basis? Maybe surfing is the wrong metaphor, maybe we need to think like sailors who can tac into the wind, using not just Christian culture, but all culture to draw people to Christ.

I saw the passion on Friday, with a friend who is very interested in Jesus and it had a powerful effect on her, but as we talked afterward I realized the breadth of influences on her, her daughter who reads her Bible every night, American in laws who talk about their conversion, A Christian couple who welcomed her to Canada and helped her family with the transition to a new country. Personal witness and love are way more powerful than a movie. That got lost in the Passion outreach hype.

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