In this case, it happened because Shane has been fearlessly, creatively and lovingly preaching that gospel of resistance from inside of mainstream Christianity. He doesn’t stand on the outside criticizing and condemning. As a result, people listen. Almost all the speakers at that three-day conference preached on social justice issues, but usually they remained just inside of the audience’s comfort zone. Shane crossed that line and kept on going, and going, and going. But he has a magical ability to keep people with him as he goes. After his talk, I heard kids clustered in the hallways grappling together with all the ideas he had introduced. It was an incredible thing.
Archive for April, 2008
Jesus for President
GPS Navigation Could Boost Fuel Efficiency on Oceanic Flights
The potential fuel savings of CRISTAL ITP are bigger than you might think. Airbus estimates that a widebody jet could cut its fuel consumption by 374 pounds per transatlantic flight if it were able to shift altitude to reach maximum fuel efficiency. With 700 jets crisscrossing the Atlantic each day, that means over 260,000 pounds of fuel per day. Do the math, and that means a CO2 cut of 558,000 pounds per day (160,000 pounds of fuel = 23,390 gallons. One gallon jet fuel produces 23.88 lbs CO2 according to Earthlab). Airbus plans to have the CRISTAL ITP procedure up and running over the Atlantic no later than 2010.
Airbus isn’t the only one advocating the use of ADS-B technology. America’s Air Traffic Control Association can’t stop talking about it, saying that replacing the United States’ antiquated radar-based navigation with a GPS technology is the only way to prevent U.S. flight delays from getting far worse.
Polarizing Filters
Polarizing Filters: Part 1 – Controlling Contrast and Color
Of the many different types of lens filters available to outdoor photographers, the polarizing filter is probably one of the most popular, if not definitely the most versatile.
Why Use Linux?
The other day I got into a somewhat heated discussion about why Linux is a viable alternative desktop OS. Despite my best efforts, I was unable to move the other side past the rhetoric and myths that seem to surround Linux. It is because of this discussion that I am writing this…as a way to give accurate information. Let’s start by looking at some of the most common myths.
Lesser-known (and secret) Picasa features, cont’d
Sometimes we build little features into Picasa that are essentially invisible — they don’t show up in the interface at all. The color engine in Picasa 2.7 is one of those changes; it’s become far more adept at handling extra-orange or extra-blue photos. If you have some old ‘problem photos’ where the lighting just seemed hopeless, try going to the ‘Tuning’ tab and picking a neutral color with the picker. The color temperature slider in ‘Tuning’ also uses this new color model, and it can give you some wonderful results.
Mead Releases New Grad School–Ruled Notebook
After decades of only offering ruled notebook paper suitable for college-level education and below, school-supply giant Mead introduced its new grad-school-ruled notebook Monday, which features lines twice as narrow as college-ruled paper.
Percentage Contributions To The Linux Kernel
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