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• Worship, Not Evangelism, The Most Important Task The quote here from Robert Reymond, although tending to paint a broad brush on evangelicalism, points out the primacy of worship over evangelism as the reason for going to church (a counterpoint to Christianity Today’s “What Evangelism Isn’t” perhaps).
• Should They Accept Christ as Personal Savior? “The sinner in his natural state has no power in himself to accept Christ as his personal Savior… nor has he any real desire or intention of doing so for the reason that, as stated above, his “carnal mind” is “enmity against God”"

• ‘Why Do They Hate Us?’ - washingtonpost.com
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• Can Your iPod Help You Lose Weight, Reduce Your Blood Pressure, and Alleviate Pain?

I should create a new category here called “Rips,” I’ve been covering copycats so much lately. A link to this article was sent to me yesterday by my boss. The Adfreak piece says that the new Apple video iPod commercial featuring Eminem is a rip-off of a 2001 ad for Lugz footwear . It indeed looks strikingly similar in terms of style and feel. The executive of the agency that produced the Lugz ad said in this article that his firm isn’t planning to “make waves” so this probably means Apple (and TBWA) are safe from litigation.

Related article: Washed Up Superheroes, a post I wrote in 2003 where I wonder whether Steve Jobs is losing his creative originality. The Incredibles, although derivative at many levels (it’s even got a little bit of Spy Kids in it), proved, as you all know, to be light years ahead of any prior works that share the same subject matter.

Update: There’s going to be a lawsuit after all. Lugz itself is coming after Apple.

I guess it’s all about wi-fi today.

Ryan left a comment on my reviews of free hotspots in my area, giving me a heads-up on his other site, BayAreaFreeFi.com. Available for download from the site is the wiPod, “an iPod-based guide to free wi-fi in the San Francisco Bay Area.” Cool. I am now downloading it and will install it on my iPod momentarily.

Quick! Launch iTunes and get today’s free download, Nelly Furtado’s Try. It may not be there tomorrow. Apple has been giving away free songs from different artists almost every other day since it released its latest version of iTunes a week ago. At that rate I can fill up my 1st gen, 5-GB iPod with free mp3’s* in about, oh, five years.

*or more accurately AAC’s. Bah, it just doesn’t flow.

Update: I really should be more thorough researching stuff before posting anything. It was only the first week that Apple was giving away one song a day. After that, it’s been one free song a week.