- maggie dawn is taking questions to ask the archbishops of canterbury and york
- photographing the homeless is banned.. tip chris wage, note this is satire
- as one in the youth minister profession, i feel like this guy a lot. tip marko
- a place for the nashville dad. tip rob
- writing more effective emails
- a future s.a.t. question
- a cool & creative way to pump water in third world countries. via ariah
- how interruptions make you more creative
- full version of the latest nooma video for the next 48 hours
- church sex abuse in the sbc, by the nashville scene
Culture
the things you find
i am always amused at what shows up when i start looking for visuals and videos for youth gatherings. this week, i just knew i was in for a treat. the theme/title is "God Man" which is simply a short way of saying we are going to study Jesus, God made into man. that isn’t fun. so searching "God man" over image search i found the adventures of "God Man" on richard dawkins website (prominent atheist for those who do not know). i think the comics are supposed to be slamming, i found them kinda funny.
i think the funniest thing though is "God man tv" which boasts an energy drink or the god boy comic books (note there is only god woman doll, which is pretty lame, sorry ladies you miss out on the "God man").
getting canned from yahoo
ever wonder what it looked liked to get canned from yahoo? follow this twitter chronicle
the geek way to say you are anti-war
i guess you need to know basic html to get this one. i got a great chuckle out of it. if you don’t get it, then.. don’t worry about it. tip marko
evening of oovoo
it took forever, those on my twitter might have seen my frustration. but i finally got logged in and joined a little chat time with joseph jaffe, new media marketing guru. i didn’t contribute too much to the conversation, other than my drinking a beer, in part because i got in late on the conversation, but i was also feeling sick.
as for the oovoo software, well, it was frustrating to not be able to get online. the software froze on me twice when i did get on and then when i finally got connected my screen froze at some point, but the audio was good and the idea of chatting like this was pretty darn cool. the mac software just got released a few days ago, so maybe it was partly software issues. though it could have just been our high speed internet. due to the location we live cable signals get bogged down rather regularly every few days.
as for the conversation. the one thing interesting that deals with much of the content of this blog. when i introduced that i am a youth pastor who lingers around these conversations to glean info. joseph mentioned that the ‘passion of the Christ‘ was one of the biggest community effort promos to date. which was something i had never thought about. probably easy as your have an 1600 year old community to help spur that on, but it cannot be denied the phenomenon of the buzz that movie generated out of normal means.