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Microloans are a great idea. And now Kiva is taking it to the next level, leveraging the power of the network to connect entrepreneurs in developing nations with people in the first world who can make loans, all intermediated by Kiva (much in the same way eBay intermediates auction purchases, even down to Kiva’s […]

Faith, doubt and Nickel Creek
“I’m so sick of sugar-coated songs from the Christian perspective,” (Nickel Creek guitarist and songwriter Sean Watkins) said, in his online journal. “One of the most comforting and inspiring lines to me is from the last chorus of ‘Come Thou Fount’ where it says, ‘Prone to wander, Lord I feel it. […]

This week’s Chronicle of Higher Education lists the tuition costs of every college in the nation. Very interesting reading. Among the highlights:
- My alma mater, Indiana State University, is probably the least highly regarded of Indiana’s 4 major public universities (its reputation trails Purdue and Indiana and probably also Ball State). This […]

From Lifehacker:
New web app Frappr creates Google Maps for groups of people and incorporates their photos in a set of points which map their physical location.
Frappr helps folks visualize far-flung groups - say, for instance, people who post in a message board or who read your weblog or who play a multiplayer online game. It’s […]

Big ups to the Southern Baptist Convention’s relief efforts:
Southern Baptists now field the third-largest privately funded relief corps in the United States. By Thursday, September 1, in Mobile, Alabama, the Baptists were prepared to serve 20,000 meals a day for ten days. By the end of September, they had prepared more than 5.1 million meals […]

Tapscott’s Copy Desk has the list of senators who voted for and against the Coburn Amendment. Among others, Richard Burr (R-North Carolin) and Evan Bayh (D-Indiana) voted in favor of it and Elizabeth Dole (R-North Carolina and Hillary Clinton (D-New York) voted against it. John McCain (R-Arizona) was one of only 3 senators […]