Music
- Beethoven's 7th
The best of the 9 - Coldplay, Parachutes
I started listening to them in 2000. While they've certainly had more popular records, their first is still their best. - Pandora.com
A site you can train to play music you like. - The Manchester Orchestra
Top 2: Where have you been? & Sleeper 1972
Books worth reading
- Ann Rule, A Stranger Beside Me
If you like true crime, this is for you - Augustine's Confessions
Monumental - Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy
Academic and devotional at once - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Cost of Discipleship
Theological meditations on the sermon on the mount - Elie Wiesel, Night
Must reading - Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless renunciated wealth by abandoning his possessions, giving his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska, to return to nature and live off the land. - Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air
Mt. Everest climbing catastrophe - Lee Child, One Shot
Read the entire Jack Reacher series - Michael Connelly, A Darkness More Than Night
Read the entire Hieronymus Bosch series - Philip Gourevitch, We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families
Stories from Rwanda
Causes worthy of your attention
- Blood:water mission
Be sure to see their 1000 wells project - Save Darfur
Not on our watch.
Research Tools
- Bible search engine
Various translations/versions - Christian Creeds
Various types - Google Scholar
Wish I'd have thought of this
Art
- Artcyclopedia
Search tool - Web Gallery of Art
Fine collection
Movies worthy of your time
- Finding Nemo
Hollywood's finest animated parable - Hotel Rwanda
Watch the movie, then read the Gourevitch book - Minority Report
A sci-fi movie with theological claims - Star Wars vols. 4-6
Theological: good v. evil; the hero's journey. The cover alone is worth the price of the trilogy DVD set. Superior to vols. 1-3. - The Shawshank Redemption
Great film adaptation of the Stephen King short story
TV worth watching
- Lost
Theology, ethics, drama, action, suspense What more do you want? - The Colbert Report
Pure comedic genius - The Office
Pam and Jim forever
Scholarly
- MyCourseList
Online advising system.
Just for Fun
- Elvis is alive
See the supporting evidence - Hot Tamales
Greatness - Red Vines
The best licorice. Period. Not to be confused with the more famous, but less tasty Twizzler.