Scrolling around...August 8th, 2012

Google Adds Personal Gmail Results Into Search
In a major move to integrate personal search and Web search, Google is adding some users’ Gmail into their search results as a “limited field trial,” it said today.
So when participating users search for “Amazon,” information from their own recent purchase confirmation emails will appear on the right rail. Or, a user could type “my flights” as a search query, and see — directly at the top of their search results — itineraries drawn from their flight confirmation emails...

Rescue Me: The Moral and Ethical Problems of Creating Savior Siblings
Another story is in the news again brings us the issue of "savior siblings". Creating a savior sibling raises some serious ethical issues...

Billy Graham: 'Final call' for America to repent
...Timed to coincide with his 95th birthday, Graham is calling people in the United States and Canada to repentance as part of the “My Hope with Billy Graham” evangelistic outreach set for the week of Nov. 7, 2013.
Unlike his famous stadium crusades over the past six decades, Graham is asking Christians to invite family, friends and neighbors to their homes to watch the “Living Room Crusade” on their televisions, tablets or smartphones as part of a massive grassroots effort to ignite a spiritual awakening in North America...

Local Church Puts A "Drive-In" Twist On Worship Service
...When folks first drive up to the service they are handed a service bulletin and directed to change their radio dials to 88.9 FM because the service is broadcast on that station.

After listeners are tuned in and ready to go, they can sit back, listen to the pastor, and even enjoy coffee and cinnamon rolls passed out by service volunteers....

"To tweet, or not to tweet?"
...This seems like a timely question for days like ours. Recent Twitter-related scandals coming out of Britain surely have some in the Twittersphere experiencing what might be called Twitter's remorse...

Church of England Sells All Its News Corp Shares; Worth $3 Million
...In total, the church sold about $3 million worth of shares of the media giant headed by Rupert Murdoch, a church spokesman said Tuesday. The church's Ethical Investment Advisory Group (EIAG) was not satisfied with the company's reform in governance after a year of discussion between church representatives and News Corp...

Male Oxford students free to wear skirts to exams
Male students at Oxford University can now wear skirts to exams, following pressure from the university’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer Society(LGBTQ Soc)...

Obama's Columbia Class of ’83 College Classmate: "I never met him. Never saw him. Never even heard of him."
..."And none of the classmates that I knew at Columbia has ever met him, saw him, or heard of him"...

In Pakistan, Ramadan Charity Donations Benefit the Taliban
...In Pakistan, unfortunately, the benevolent intentions of Ramadan charity (zakat and fitrana—money and food) have been and are being used to support operations and recruit combatants for jihadist terror in their own country as well as in Afghanistan and Kashmir...

'I Didn't Even Notice'
...When I told my friends and staff members that the movie had 91 f-bombs, which averages out to approximately one version of the "f" word per minute, they were all shocked. "Really? I didn't even notice" was the most common response. Really, you didn't notice one "f" word each minute?...