Valve, Blizzard Reach DOTA Trademark Agreement
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/05/11/valve-blizzard-reach-dota-trademark-agreement.aspx
That's about right.
- Obama: I like Coke
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New York bishop speaks out on religious liberty in a pluralistic society
“So long as any particular religious activity is not supported in any way by public monies, and so long as that activity does not enter into economic competition with regulated competitors, then the government should refrain from interference. When those two standards are not met, however, religious activity should be conducted under the same regulations as all other such activity in society.”
The Front Row: Keeping “The Hunger Games” Kid Stuff : The New Yorker
“I greatly enjoyed my colleague Amy Davidson’s post hypothesizing that Collins’s trilogy “is a story about a long counterinsurgency campaign,” and Collins herself has said that it was inspired by a conjunction of reality television and the Iraq war. But I think there’s something else going on, something that resonates both with some of the high lines of modern history and with the tone of the times (and that the latter is one of the things to which its success with young readers is, in part, due): in order to lead a revolution against the prevailing authorities, you first have to win at their game. For all the movie’s rebel spirit, it’s a story of playing the game as if one’s life depends on it.”
Being Without Communion: Thoughts on Communion of the Unbaptized
On communion of the unbaptized:
“Yeah, theoretically, we could change the canons and permit this. But will it really build up the church? Without broader commitment to formation, mission, and ministry, I don’t see how it would. If we give someone communion and then never talk to them at coffee hour and don’t empower them in their baptismal ministry, we will have accomplished nothing.”
Del Tumbles: Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) has introduced the Women’s Option to Raise Kids (WORK) Act, which would allow low-income mothers...
Current law does not count low-income stay-at-home parents who are raising young children as meeting the necessary Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) work requirement. Current law also bans states from counting these individuals toward that…
Oh hell yes. THIS IS WHAT WE NEED, and something both sides of the political divide over abortion should be able to support.
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here’s a good rule of thumb for young artists struggling to understand what is permissible in making art: anything that jesus is lord of, you can and should make art about.
FEEDBACK BLOG: safe for the whole family: the marketing of jesus
we live in a world of categories. it’s a symptom of the nearly unlimited choices which bombard us online and offline every day. things must be organized, sorted, and categorized to be manageable. while this can sometimes be incredibly helpful, in other cases it can be dangerously deceptive.
an…
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Feminist Frequency on race and casting for The Hunger Games
Happens with male roles as well, one of the many reasons I hate the media.
the truth.
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Philosopher’s Minimalism by Genís Carreras
Prints available at society6. Entitled “Philographics”, these minimalist geometric shapes represent various philosophical doctrines like existentialism, empiricism, nihilism, and solipsism. Several more can be seen on Carreras’ website, but spoiler alert: there appears to be no mention of Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, which is just as much a code of ethics as it is a religious experience.
(via: io9)
I love this. Very minimal, but to the point.
Not sure I like some of the implications of hedonism being a pink triangle but otherwise these are pretty great (and helpful teaching tools!).
And oh gosh that Idealism one. If there were a graphic to describe my philosophical leanings, that would be it.
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Have never heard an argument against that doesn’t fall back on a religious belief or a complete ignorance of the history of the institution.
-Joe
As a religious person who is pro-gay marriage, I can affirm that this is unfortunately true…
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