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This is an amazingly thorough article on whether the iPad can really be your only computer. Worth the few minute read.

In the end, having character is about settling. And I firmly believe one key to the happy life is settling. By settling I mean it’s a decision to no longer be gluttonous. I’m gluttonous in so many ways. Not just with food, but with relationships and praise and money and so many other things. Having good character means settling for what little I have, and participating in life rather than trying to conquer life.

-Don Miller, taken from this post on his blog

Don has written so many good things about living a better story, but this one in particular- this one has really been working on me. Little by little, I’m more uncomfortable -Because it’s something that I am terrible about admitting and owning.  Ironic-that “owning” is the word that I chose there.

Owning is such a strange concept for believers, but one that seems to be the catalyst for so many issues with character.  If I really believe the biblical narrative, and the origin of every human to ever walk the earth, it’s silly to accumulate and think of this collection of things- even if they are intangibles- as a true measure of who I am.

Here is what I’m learning.  Spending my time obsessing about and collecting the next “thing” will not get me closer to God.  In fact, they may just become the idol that keeps me from truth.  Good character is about consistently choosing to spend my time and energy on things that really matter.

RJ Moeller wrote this great article about it.

In the article he quotes Jake Tapper at ABC News:

[Obama:] “In a time when many folks are struggling and at a time when we have enormous deficits, it’s hard for me to ask seniors on a fixed income or young people with student loans or middle-class families who can barely pay the bills to shoulder the burden alone,” he said. “And I think to myself, if I’m willing to give something up as somebody who’s been extraordinarily blessed and give up some of the tax breaks that I enjoy, I actually thinks that’s going to make economic sense.”

The president continued: “But for me as a Christian, it also coincides with Jesus’ teaching that, from to whom much is given, much shall be required.”

Interesting to see Obama criticized for bringing religion into things, but I really agree with the article. While I certainly respect the president’s faith, I too feel that taking scripture out of context like this doesn’t really advance the kingdom.

Giving is not the same as paying taxes.

Only Cancer and bullshit websites grow fast.

-Xeni Jardin via Brian Lam

Saw this new app called Masterkey this morning and kept thinking that it looked familiar. I’m a pretty big fan of the Tapbots style and this -to me- looks like a Tapbots app.

A designer named Adam Ladd asked for his 5 yr old daughter’s perspective on a bunch of well known corporate logos. Great video-

Posted here at Kottke.org

Fantastic!