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Last login: 13 days agoRichTatum: Rich is a 40 year old married guy from Muskegon, Michigan, USA.; Likes 182 pages, 10 videos, 6 photos • 17 fans; Member since Aug 31, 2006

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deputydog | ever seen a creepier tower?: Jul 18, 5:01am 21 reviews architecture, odd, sculpture, czech, tower
http://deputy-dog.com/2008/07/17/ever-seen-a-creepier-tower/; This is what happens with painful history, authoritarian regimes, bad taste, and cultural pride in quirkiness collide. Wow.

Religion Clause: Lawsuit Challenges Publishers Translation of Bible Verse: Jul 10, 5:29am 1 review christianity, religion, bible, homosexuality, zondervan
http://religionclause.blogspot.com/2008/07/lawsuit-challenges-publishers.html; Get the full text of Fowler's civil complaints against Zondervan and Thomas Nelson. Instructive.

Stop Making Sense&58; Bradley LaShawn Fowler sues Zondervan over use of the word…: Jul 10, 5:05am 1 review christianity, religion, bible, homosexuality, faith
http://gregorybeamer.spaces.live.com/blog/cns%21B036196EAF9B34A8%21669.entry; Good analysis of the case brought by Fowler and its lack of grounding.

Biblical Studies and Technological Tools: Get Lost in Jerusalem - Free Interacti…: Jul 9, 5:20am 1 review software, religion, windows, bible, jerusalem
http://bibleandtech.blogspot.com/2008/07/get-lost-in-jerusalem-free-interacti...; A review and links to an interactive (Windows) program to acquaint you with Jerusalem. Fun!

YouTube - Where the Hell is Matt? (2008): Jun 30, 10:45am 79 reviews dancing, video, happy, joy, matt
http://video.stumbleupon.com/?p=5exgfsi2cp; What a lot of fun, and a great way to communicate joy without ever uttering a word...

Revival Sermons at SermonIndex.net - audio mp3 sermon archive: Oct 4, 2007 3:37am 5 reviews audio, mp3, podcasts, text, sermons
http://www.sermonindex.net/; Great comprehensive site with text and audio from contemporary and classic preachers. A great resource, especially for commuters with mp3 devices!

ReviewJournal.com - News - Four-month trial ends with no convictions: Oct 3, 2007 4:07pm 1 review politics, silver, coins, gold, numismatology
http://www.lvrj.com/news/9893062.html; "ReviewJournal.com: Four-month trial ends with no convictions"

Apparently, the IRS doesn't have a law regarding how to claim income on circulating gold and silver coins (I didn't even know there were gold coins in circulation! Though I have seen the occasional silver dime show up). It seems you can report the income based on the face value of the valuable coins, even though their collector's value could be much higher. The Government lost 160 verdicts.

Amazing.

YouTube - Who Am I Casting Crowns: Aug 30, 2007 4:48pm 12 reviews acting, religion, video, song, human-video
http://video.stumbleupon.com/?p=yl5ymz3fdv; I expected this to be cheesy, it was actually very nicely done, and kept my attention the whole time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En0A8KGMgq8: Jul 30, 2007 9:33pm 24 reviews vocal-music, video, song, amazing, six-year-old
http://video.stumbleupon.com/?p=uwc4juouyu; Oh, sure, I thought, another six-year old wannabe singer.

Then I listened.

Kapow! Tears in my eyes. it's more than the pitch-perfect singing. She's stunning.

The Monty Hall problem: Jul 28, 2007 8:13pm 1 review gambling, random, game, numbers, logic-problem
http://www.curiouser.co.uk/monty/montygame.htm; Remember the Monty Hall game show where you got to choose one of three curtains, and behind one curtain was a car, but the other two were goats? When you've made your first choice, the game-master reveals one of the other two curtains, which always contains a goat. You are given the option to switch your pick if you want. The counter-intuitive strategy to have a better chance to win this game is to change your first pick to the other unrevealed curtain. Intuitively, you feel you still have a 50/50 chance by sticking with your original choice, but in reality your odds have improved to a 66% chance of winning the car if you switched. I played the game twenty times both ways (switching, vs. not switching). Switching saw me winning 60%. Not switching saw me winning only 35% of the time. That's with a fairly low sample.

Fun!

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