Ah yes, a new season of Flight of the Conchords. Watch last week’s episode on HBO.com (I loved Murray’s operatic song “Rejected“). Why you are the second-biggest fan of the band formerly described as “New Zealand’s fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo a capella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo.” (Why second-biggest fan? Nobody trumps Mel.)
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For the last 7 years, a ministry called xxxchurch has been leading a successful effort to reach people no one else was reaching – those in the porn industry. For years they have been making headlines with their controversial outreach venues and style as they maintain a presence at all the major adult trade shows, in many cases developing relationships with porn stars and producers…
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Here’s a collection of magazine and newspaper advertisements from the 40′s, 50′s and 60′s. Ahh to return to the golden days of yesteryear! You may be surprised by some of the stuff that used to pass for advertising back then…
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We went to bed with a few snowflakes gently falling and woke up this morning to this. We had enough snow fall for them to cancel school. Snow day! If you’re not from a part of the country that gets snow days, well, you don’t know what you’re missing. There’s nothing like a day off from school to make snowmen, build forts and go sledding…
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The economic downturn is affecting more than just the business sector. The news has reported the challenges churches are facing trying to stay afloat as budget-pinched members are giving less. Churches and non-profit ministries face a unique challenge in our economy because, even though they operate on business principles with budgets and boards, their income comes exclusively from the voluntary giving of their members…
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Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator, which is a fancy way of saying that Newsmap displays all the top stories visually on one page…
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Our friends Dan & Laura drove down from Michigan yesterday and spent the night here last night. Lisa and I were both up talking with them until we were I was practically falling asleep on the couch. Needless to say we didn’t feel like getting out of bed this morning when the alarm clock went off. On top of that Chloe had come into our room during the night saying she was having a hard time sleeping and kept waking up.
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My theory is that the content is not the most important thing. You’re gonna want a book title with some razzle-dazzle. Titles with just the right combination of buzzwords sell books baby, and that’s really what it’s all about. The holier the title, the better…
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Yesterday marked the inauguration of not only our first African-American president, but also our most tech-savvy. Obama is the first president to release a web video address, he’s glued to his BlackBerry and is a known Mac enthusiast. So it’s no surprise that one of the first and most public signs of his administration at work was the new WhiteHouse.gov web site that launched yesterday at noon…
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Dear President Obama, Who would have thought this day would come? Against all odds you were elected the first African-American president of the United States. And with a name like Barack Hussein Obama, I do mean against all odds! Five years ago I could have made a lot of money taking bets that anyone named Hussein would ever be elected to office…
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