Weekend Links

Here are a few weekend links you might find engaging:

• Good, concise thoughts on inward-facing intellectualism at Agkyra (line I most appreciated: The problem facing evangelicals, particularly in this area (of intellectualism) is not that we're anti-intellectual as much as that we concentrate our intellectual talents on a narrow range of concerns.)

• 50 motivations to make yourself work (specifically for writers, though the principles could easily apply to other disciplines)

• My friend, Ed, has a piece called "Getting Things Done: 9 Online Task Management Solutions" up at Low End Mac (even if you're not a Mac user, this might be helpful)

• Latest Zogby poll (I actually was surveyed for this one, so it's interesting to read the overall results and how my answers did and didn't compare)

• Barlow's got a helpful primer on Missouri's cloning bill (it's taken from one of his Friday class discussions at SLU and is a concise look at the debate)

• And finally, if you're wondering why cloning is so much of an issue these days, read next week's cover story of Time titled "How We Became Human" to better understand some of the background (if we're little more than chimps, who cares?)

I'm knee-deep in Hebrew until Monday's mid-term, though I'll probably take a break to watch/listen to the Cardinals at noon today. We've got a marriage dinner at Memorial tonight as well, so it won't just be me, my vocab cards, and my Hebrew grammar all day long (though it needs to be that way for a large part of it). Oh, and I'm teaching on Law tomorrow morning, so I should probably finish that up (if you're interested, class starts at 9:40, with worship at 10:45).