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If you’ve got a spare $2,900, please consider buying me this:

That would be a handmade, musical drum table. Video at the link too.

Intrepid, determined, professional TV reporter Charlie Rose was presented with this moral dilemma.
Click through to see if he thought his face or his MacBook Air was more important, then come back.
The story reminds me of one I heard from a professional wedding videographer I had the pleasure of working alongside for a season. He was [...]

AMC Theatres is hosting a day-long showing of the five best picture Oscar nominees on the day before the Oscars. If you didn’t know, those films are Michael Clayton, There Will Be Blood, Atonement, Juno, and No Country for Old Men. And it’s only $30. And you get a free large popcorn. And free refills. [...]

There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson’s new movie, hasn’t been hyped in the traditional sense; it’s just won or been nominated for a plethora of awards. I plan on seeing it, but the following review makes me even more anxious to view it, especially in light of the movie I took in last night, [...]

Via Phil Cooke at The Change Revolution:
Media theorist and writer Neil Postman (Amusing Ourselves to Death) has a pretty brilliant comparison of the two visions:
“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted [...]

Tunefind allows you to search by TV or Movie title or artist for songs recently featured on television shows or movies. I stumbled across it because I was looking for a song used in, yes, you guessed it, the opening episode of this year’s Friday Night Lights (Fridays at 8pm on NBC). The song, by [...]

When missionaries approach a cannibal tribe, they don’t protest outside the village, call them names, put an ad in the paper, or complain that they eat people. Missionaries develop a relationship with the tribe, earn their trust, and become part of the community. Once they do that, the tribe is far more open to listening [...]

Stark. Contrast. Black and White. Maybe by going simpler on the design, I can focus more on the content. If only my lazy mind could awake from its slumber. There have been far too many days recently when I’ve felt oblivious to the world around me, and it’s a very large world.
The change of name [...]

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I’ve been busy the last few weeks attempting to get my church to tread into this century. There’s more we could be doing via the Internet, but it’s difficult to steer a large group of people to adopt new technologies for communication. So here’s a list of a few things I’ve incorporated over the last [...]