Category Archives: Websites

Go On…Open Pandora's Box

October 24, 2006 – 12:51 pm

First, go to Pandora and register. It’s a web-based music player through which you can create your own stations based on your favorite artists. While playing the songs, you can rate the music, thus allowing Pandora to learn your musical tastes and play more music it thinks you’ll like. It’s fairly addictive.

Once registered, go to OpenPandora and download the desktop client. It adds some quite nice functionality, like a mini-player and the unnecessary use of a browser to listen to the music. You can even look up lyrics. It’s great.

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Christianity Websites

The Emergent Church Meets Digg

August 17, 2006 – 3:35 pm

I love stumbling onto a new website and being pleasantly surprised at what it contains. WhatsRemarkable.com is a Digg-like site for articles and posts pertaining to the Emergent Church. It’s user-submitted, user-driven, user-voted, user-commented, user-friendly, and remarkably remarkable for mashing up two great ideas. It’s hosted by the Emergent Village, which describes itself as “a growing, generative friendship among missional Christians seeking to love our world in the Spirit of Jesus Christ.” Both sites are worth checking out, and WhatsRemarkable.com is worth joining in on the conversation.

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Funny Websites Writing

Never Underestimate the Power of the Comma

August 7, 2006 – 4:52 pm

[or the 2.13 Million Dollar Comma]
[or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Comma]
[or Comma-tose: When English Majors Sleep on the Job]

“A grammatical blunder may force Rogers Communications Inc. to pay an extra $2.13-million to use utility poles in the Maritimes after the placement of a comma in a contract permitted the deal’s cancellation.The controversial comma sent lawyers and telecommunications regulators scrambling for their English textbooks in a bitter 18-month dispute that serves as an expensive reminder of the importance of punctuation.”

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Funny Websites

Egogoogling

July 25, 2006 – 5:54 pm

…is where you search for your name in Google, or add certain words after your first name, and always within quotation marks, to see what the great Google has to say about you. Here are some good ones about yours truly:

Blake is renown as a poet, mystic, painter and engraver.

Blake is known for his speed, extraordinarily powerful forehand, and intimidating service returns.

Blake is a special player and more importantly a special person.

Blake is a complementary color.

Blake is in the TV spotlight.

Blake is coming off a season-high 20 against Dallas.

Blake is a smart artist and comes off as an even smarter curator.

Blake is the New “Cranky Old Man.”

Blake is a renowned vampire hunter, needed by law enforcement but loathed by many nosferatu.

Blake is fit to be a King.

Judging by this, I’d have to say that Google has a pretty good opinion of me, and just remember about the vampire hunter thing in case you ever get on my bad side.

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Life Websites Writing

On Hiring English Majors

May 24, 2006 – 10:40 pm

I think anyone who reads this blog should read this article. Jake Schrum, President of Southwestern University, my alma mater, wrote it.

It’s entitled Looking at Hiring? Take a Look at English Majors, and it quite succinctly makes the case why English majors are a necessity to any business.

I feel vindicated and encouraged.

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