Q marks the spot – Treasure Map 34 (July 2011)

Sacred Treasure

• Pete Saunders very helpfully lists 20 things that the Pratchett BBC2 doc on assisted suicide doesn’t tell you
• Krish Kandiah does a great service by his thoughtful comments on Grudem’s recent Politics book.

• Eddie Arthur’s Kouya blog has been putting together a really good series of links for issues of Bible & Mission – here’s the 5th.
• Carson, Keller & Piper do a great job discussing the impact of growing old and retiring on how they plan for the future:

Topical Treasure

• Some excellent resources and links about Orwell’s seminal 1984
• Postcards from Hell 2011 – Foreign Policy’s photographic survey of the world’s failed states
• Be careful what you put on Facebook…

Quirky Treasure

• Now this is a site to watch: Awkward Classical Music photos… once pointed out, you realise that they are an artform all of their own…(HT PhilWBass)
• Turning a disused elevated NYC metro line into a garden – fabulous.
• Check this out – Conan-Doyle’s shortest Sherlock Holmes story illustrating the difficulty of reading others’ motives.
• What happens when you paint a city blue… stunning…
• These are amazing – art from books…
• Tweeted about this a couple of weeks ago. It’s simply beautiful – just wish it had been something spontaneous for the love of it, rather than for an advert… ho hum.