Now this is cool! Not only do you get to still play it on a mobile device, but then it happens in real life!
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Angry Birds LIVE (video)
Underage Kids on Facebook
Do you have Facebook? Do your kids have Facebook? Did you know that it is against the law for children under the age of 13 to create an online profile that collects their personal information?
In the last couple of weeks I have read a number of articles and such regarding this interesting phenomena (I call it that because what we all do online is still a phenomena) of parents knowingly letting their underage children create a Facebook account or looking the other way.
This article on ChurchMag entitled “Breaking the Law to Be on Facebook” is worth the read if you want to know what the law really is all about as well as what the Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, thinks about the particular restriction.
NPR recently did a story called “Social Networks: Thinking of the Children” where the author references a father whose 11-year-old son wants a Facebook account. Here’s what gives the father pause:
It is legally verboten — by the Children’s Online Protection Act of 1998 — for a website to collect personal information or track the cybertrail of anyone younger than 13, without parental consent. Rather than create software to prevent digital tracking, most sites insist that users be of age. Many general-interest, multigenerational social media websites — like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter — solve the problem by requiring that all users be at least 13 years old.
Still, kids will be kids. And recently it has come to light that millions of young people are flouting the rules to create accounts on the social networking sites. According to the New York Times, a 2009 survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project reported that 38 percent of 12-year-olds in the United States participate in social networks. And in June 2011, Consumer Reports estimated that about 7.5 million people who use Facebook are younger than 13.
So what do you think? Is the law good or not good? Is it out-of-date (or out-of-touch)? Should parents allow their children to skirt the rules?
How Much Happens in One Minute on the Internet?
Minutes go by quickly and we rarely think about them. However, if you were to stop time for one minute and gauge what happened in that short 60 seconds on the internet, the above graphic is what occurred (click on the image to make it a little bigger).
Interesting… what did we do with our time before the World Wide Web?
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Shouldn’t Church Be Fun?
Growing up, I loved going to McDonald’s. I loved the play area, the Happy Meals and the Happy Meal toy. In other words, I wanted the “Mickey D’s” experience because I knew it would be fun, I would get fed and I would leave with something. Shouldn’t the church be the same way?
Jelani Lewis on ministrytodaymag.com
via Children’s Ministry Magazine July/August 2011 pg. 22
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Kids and the Gospel (video)
I’m a children’s pastor, so I’m supposed to emphasize the value and importance of children in God’s kingdom. But I’m in good company. Jesus did as well (actually, I did as well, Jesus was first!).
via Ministry-To-Children
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Digging Up the Philistines
The annual digging season has begun in the city of Gath (a former Philistine city). They are unearthing some interesting things that tell us today what the Philistines were like. An article @ msnbc.com tells some of the discoveries and connections that have been made in reference to this ancient people group and their affiliation with the Israelites as mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.
In Israel, diggers unearth the Bible’s bad guys
It’s interesting to me that archaeologists seem to start with suspicion of an ancient text (i.e. like the Bible) and seek to go all out to disprove the claims and the stories contained within (and they are super-surprised if the stories appear true). I don’t know, maybe these findings and the resultant articles and theories that are written paint the discipline in a bad light. Not because of the stellar work archaeologists are doing, rather they appear to be written with a particular slant toward continual suspicion of the biblical text.
It seems, at least to this amateur theologian, that if one thinks that the Bible stories are true and view archaeological conclusions at this point are premature are definitely in the minority of scientific opinion and labeled at best ignorant, but at worst uninformed and out-of-touch with reality.
Regardless of who is right or wrong, the point for me at least, is to hold down the side of the debate that isn’t getting the most press…
