Every week, our users put together the news, interviews, articles, videos and media that they have found important, interesting and informative. We post it every Friday. Here are the links for this week:
A US federal court overturns the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) that requires adult websites to verify the age of their visitors. COPA is a bill passed after the previous anti-obscenity law, the Communications Decency Act (CDA), was struck down by the Supreme Court. Maybe Congress thought the court didn’t really mean it the first time. COPA should not be confused with the Child Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) which requires all websites to verify that their registered users are at least 13 years old. COPPA is still in full force.
The Yankees have decided to save us all from blowing up. In order to achieve this, they have banned sunscreen at Yankee Stadium. Instead, they now sell their own “terrorist safe tubes” for $5 a pop in-house. Who know the War on Terrorism could be so marketable?
A look back at Jesse Jackson’s True Colors: “Unsavory business has been par for the course for Jackson’s career.”
A US appeals court has thrown out the $500,000 fine for Janet Jackson’s Superbowl wardrobe malfunction. The judges ruled that the FCC “arbitrarily and capriciously” violated its own policy in levying the fine. Reuters article
The U.S.A. is no longer the world’s fattest nation - Australia is.
The Anglican Issues
Monday’s Lambeth Conference News
Wednesday’s Lambeth Conference
Other Links
Rick Mansfield writes about the The Rise of the New Living Translation. The NIV still dominates sales but it is becoming increasingly dated. The TNIV has been largely rejected by the Christian community, leaving no clear successor to the NIV. The NLT has become a “major contender for the spot of top English translation” despite (or because of) flying “under the radar.”
I want a new NLT. All I have is the old original version, which I’ve stopped using.