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• And don’t wear white after Labor Day

  Published: July 26, 2007, 10:04 am

  Tags: Politics, Social Issues, Pop Culture, World Religions, First Person, Sex

  The intersection of religion and dress is most fascinating to me. I grew up with a mother who was far and away the most fashionable pastor’s wife I knew. And then I also had acquaintances and neighbors involved in the Christian modesty movement, which required women to wear large pieces of fabric that covered them extensively. As I prepare

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• Dark night of a reporter’s soul

  Published: July 21, 2007, 11:02 pm

  Tags: Catholicism, Evangelicals, First Person, Sex

  much I would say to him in person, most of it rooted in the idea that it is better to wrestle with eternal faith issues in the context of a living, vital faith community than on one’s on. But that is hardly a journalistic comment either, now is it? As C.S. Lewis noted in The Horse and His Boy, there are times when God tells each person

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• GoldenEye 007

  Published: June 25, 2007, 2:32 am

  Tags: Nintendo 64, First Person Shooter, Rare

  GoldenEye 007 is not only the best movie-tie in game of all time, but perhaps one of the best games of all time. It’s aged quite badly, like a lot of Nintendo 64 games, but back in the day this was easily the best First-Person Shooter around. It came out on the Nintendo 64 in [...]

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• Man gets BSOD message tattooed on his arm

  Published: July 28, 2007, 5:45 am

  Tags: Bsod, Crrl Alt Del, Error, Mishap, Person, Skin, Tat, Tattoo, Windows

  Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Wearables If anyone gave that Zune tattoo guy props for his bravery / stupidity, you owe a handful of kudos to this fellow, too. In an admittedly bizarre move to show one's disdain (right?) for the always infuriating Blue Screen of Death, this man has went so far as to tattoo the BSOD error message on his arm,

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• Dept. Of Time Person Of The Year: You: Everything's Just a Lame Online Diversion These Days, Including the 'New Deep Throat'

  Published: August 1, 2007, 4:42 pm

  Tags: 9 11, Alberto Gonzales, Blogs, Blogthroat, Cia, Deep Modem, Deep Throat, Dept Of Time Person Of The Year You, Dick Cheney, Doj, Fbi, George W Bush, Impeachment, Nsa, Nsc, Ovp, Plamegate, Rnc, Talking Points Memo, Verizon, Watergate, White House

  In the Watergate era, “Deep Throat” was supposedly a government insider who met Bob Woodward in a parking garage and moodily smoked cigarettes while wearing a trench coat. The fact that...

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• Late-summer GetReligionistas lull

  Published: August 2, 2007, 12:32 pm

  Tags: Journalism, Announcements, First Person

  Long-time GetReligion readers will know that my favorite place in the world is the mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina, where my family flees from time to time to escape telephones, offices, commuting and, to a lesser extent, weblogs and email. If you can find Pensacola, N.C., on a map, then you own a really good map. However, we are able to

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• Crysis Gets Official Release Date

  Published: August 2, 2007, 5:50 pm

  Tags: Crytek, Gamer Life, Electronic Arts, Computer, Games, Crysis, Crytek, E3 2007, Electronic Arts, Filefront, First Person Shooters, Fps, Game Critics Awards, Pc Games

  PC games and first person shooters of 2007, recently winning Best PC game from the Game Critics Awards: Best of E3 2007. Crytek is constantly striving to push the boundaries of both game design and technology, while maintaining quality at the highest bar, said Cevat Yerli, CEO and President of Crytek. We're thankful to our

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• Late-summer GetReligionistas lull

  Published: August 2, 2007, 12:32 pm

  Tags: Journalism, Announcements, First Person

  Longtime GetReligion readers will know that my favorite place in the world is the mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina, where my family flees from time to time to escape telephones, offices, commuting and, to a lesser extent, weblogs and email. If you can find Pensacola, N.C., on a map, then you own a really good map. However, we are able to

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• Halo 2 & The Virginia Tech Massacre (What They Mean To Me)

  Published: August 9, 2007, 11:16 am

  Tags: Gamer Life, Article Back, Back Of My Mind, Blacksburg Virginia, Burned In My Mind, Cause Violence, Close To My Heart, Couple Days, Gunshots, Halo, Hokies, Level Games, Little Break, Long As I Live, Match, Peaceful Person, Playing Video Games, Play Little, Violent Game, Viol

  I am a very peaceful person by nature. However, the real world has changed what games mean to me. It's not as traumatic for me to play Halo now as it was back then, but the feelings are still there in the back of my mind. Real world violence can stick with a person forever I think. In-game violence isn't traumatic on it's own and

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• Holding Gerson to a higher standard

  Published: August 11, 2007, 9:14 am

  Tags: Politics, Journalism, Evangelicals, First Person

  typical problem with first-person tell-alls, in which it is hard to verify all of the facts, unless there is genuine documentation. I am interested in reading Gerson’s response, which is partially contained in this Washington Post story, but I get the feeling that there could be more from him if he wants to defend himself. I hope he lets

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• Clive Barker’s Jericho release date October 23rd. Preview videos show brutal horror FPS gameplay for Xbox 360, PS3 & PC

  Published: August 14, 2007, 7:00 am

  Tags: Videos, Interviews, News, Jericho, Clive Barker, Cliver Barkers Jericho, Horror, First Person Shooter, Xbox 360, Ps3, Playstation 3, Game, Videogame

  squad-based first-person shooter (lots of dashes, eh). It’s developed by Mercury Steam and published by Codemasters. The game features some really cool and unique mechanics. In addition to it’s hoards of unique monsters and nasty weapons, the player can switch on the fly from one character to any other in the squad. Each

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• Background takeover

  Published: August 15, 2007, 2:41 pm

  Tags: Nuffnang, Takeover, Background, Agreed, Encouraging, Spirit, Local, Person, Nice

  is, I said yes. I am a nice person and always say yes. Yes! Really! I am a nice person!!! I think some of you had probably seen the background takeover. It hasn’t shown up in my personal blog at 5xmom yet because the javascript won’t work. I had been in touch with nuffnang’s technical staff and he is working on it.

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• Pre-Purchase BioShock on Steam Now

  Published: August 16, 2007, 12:20 pm

  Tags: 2k Games, Computer, 2k Games, August 21, Award Winning, Bioshock, First Person Shooter, Gamers, Game Of The Year, Highly Anticipated, Playing The Game, Steam, Surprise, Today Announced That, Whe

  and award-winning first-person shooter by 2K Games is available for pre-purchase now via SteamR. Starting today, gamers can pre-order BioShock on Steam (www.steamgames.com) for $49.95, and begin playing the moment the game is made available. Via Press Release ---Related Articles at Gaming Today:Stubbs the Zombie, Top Spin 2, and a

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• Original Bioshock Story: Nazis on an Island

  Published: August 16, 2007, 4:43 pm

  Tags: Games, Bioshock, First Person Shooter, Nazis, Original Story

  Maybe it was a twist off of Wolfenstein 3d? Whatever the case, it’s a little strange that the original plot for Bioshock involved Nazis on an island. According to an article yesterday in CVG, this obviously was a first run idea of the Bioshock design team. “It’s impossible to sit down at the start of a project and say this game

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• That's What Friends Are For

  Published: August 19, 2007, 1:39 pm

  Tags: Friendship, Water, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Beach, Boogie Board, Children, Douglas Biklen, Education, Family, Friends, Health, Myth Of Person Alone, Ocean, Pdd Nos, Water

  about the “myth of the person alone,” indeed (Douglas Biklen has writen about this myth here). Charlie’s social skills may not be of the sort recommended by Emily Post—he ran around the house saying “Hal here” excitedly, and then walked pass Hal in the street without noticing, much less greeting, him. And

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