Kester Brewin

Author: KB

  • Double Bind | Should Environmentalists Buy up Gas-Guzzlers?

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    Our car, a truly horrible beast, has been making strange noises from the engine for about a year. In January our mechanic deemed it a fatal problem: it wasn’t worth the cost of fixing, and it might run for 2/20/200/2000 miles. It did about the 2000. Which got us over the Severn Bridge into Wales…

  • Emerging Church Critique | David Byrne & Jesus Camp

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    Great to see a fabulous line up for critiquing the Emerging movement. Eight. White. Men. “I hope that the movement or conversation in its present form will increasingly divide between those who deeply and intelligently desire to be faithful to Scripture while learning to communicate the gospel to a younger generation, and those who, whether…

  • Would The Real Islam Please… Sit Down?

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    “You say I’m violent once more, and I swear I’ll smack your head in” The furore over the Pope’s ill-chosen comments created an interesting debate on the radio this morning. It seems that his apology has not been enough for many Muslims, who have reacted to his perceived accusation of Islam being a violent religion…

  • The FlowMarket™

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    Thanks to Saga for this [link] All products available from The Flowmarket™ Technorati Tags: Art, Consumption, Design, Flow Market

  • Shortcuts | Dirt | Journeys

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    I watched a student at school take a shortcut today. And then watched as they were followed by countless others, taking a few quick steps on a worn brambly path, while a few others took the concrete slab route round and about. I’m guessing that eventually the school will give in to the inevitable, and…

  • Backside Cache | Dirt and Computing

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    Great article in Wired at: http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,71763-0.html?tw=rss.index At first sight, a computer is a system that seems “clean.” Early mainframes were housed in dust-free rooms bathed in unvarying white light. Nobody ever got physically dirty handling a laptop. The computer-using proverb “garbage in, garbage out” is just a metaphor; nothing physical goes into a computer, and…