(from XKCD via TEV)

• Why Mary thinks multitasking is bad for writing and anything else (here).

• “Stories give us resources for thinking and for acting.” Here’s more from the Don Taylor video on how stories shape people. I don’t agree with everything he says, but there are a lot of interesting videos from the upcoming Desiring God Conference speakers.

• Another law restricting prayer in America (here and here). I could care less. I think they should make Christianity illegal. The growth in faith would be amazing.

• A food critic is so angry at the Times for deleting one words from his last sentence of a review that he wrote a scathing (profanity-laden) rant in the Guardian (here via snowbooks).