From the actual site – We contacted heart specialist, Chris Thornley, and had him create a “highly accurate” map of modern human passions for a new tshirt. After years of research (and several transplants), Chris developed the above: a definitive map of human passions. While the items included apply to all… proportions may vary. For this reason, we are considering increasing the size of the region allocated to the Original Star Wars Trilogy.

I saw this through another Posterous that I follow for work reasons … but I thought it should be posted here for future reference and perhaps a lesson or two at church.

To me it is a scary picture of us.
Luke 6:45 says it well…
“The good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth that which is evil: for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.”

What do we think about?
What consumes our thoughts?

Technology drives the astounding pace of contemporary language change, so it’s hardly surprising that most landmark words today come out of tech. That and the fact that this industry is responsible for the production of 9/10s of the world’s neologisms.

No matter what, 2009’s top words came from tech. The American Dialect Society’s word of the decade is ‘google,’ and ‘tweet’ is the ADS’s word of the year.

“Both words are, in the end, products of the Information Age, where every person has the ability to satisfy curiosity and to broadcast to a select following, both via the Internet,” said Grant Barrett, chair of the New Words Committee at the American Dialect Society.

“I really thought blog would take the honors in the word of the decade category, but more people google than blog, don’t they?” Barrett said. “Plus, many people think ‘blog’ just sounds ugly. Maybe Google’s trademark lawyers would have preferred it, anyway.”