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Margaret Feinberg
A Question of Civility: Why We Can’t Resist the Urge to Compare someone to Adolf Hitler?
Saturday, June 4th, 2011
I recently read in Mental Floss magazine (a mag for the hard core trivia lover) of an attorney and writer named Mike Godwin who noticed a disturbing trend in online message boards tracing back to the pre-historic age of the internet (also known as 1990).
Godwin began noting that whenever a conversation became heated online that inevitable a Hitler comparison emerged in the posts. To battle the trend, he created “Godwin’s Law of Nazi Analogies” which states: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.”
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Q Ideas: A Hidden Mural, A Reminder of God’s Resources
Thursday, February 10th, 2011
Do-It-Yourself (DIY) is a trend that doesn’t seem to fading in the United States or overseas thanks to the economy, but one couple from across the pond is upping the ante. While working on a DIY remodel of their living room, Rhodri and Angie Powell of Milverton, Somerest (UK), discovered a 500-year-old mural of King Henry VIII on a wall in their home.
The Powells were removing wooden panels from a wall, when they began the 20-foot high and 6-feet wide painting of the King seated on his throne emerged. Specialists were brought in to remove the layers of plaster and mortar which were hiding the image, then the mural was cleaned and holes filled in behind the façade. Continue Reading »
