April 2008
47 posts
xTreme Dodgeball →
I have dreamed of this room
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus →
Clay Shirky argues that the Industrial Revolution created a ‘cognitive surplus’, and as soon as we all realize that it’s more fun to make and share things rather than consume things, we’re going to…
I can't keep up with these eight-year-olds
matt: what was that, Nathan?
nathan: I SAID that I just saw a glowing green ghost and he was doing his homework and playing the bagpipes and rearranging his room and stealing money from his mom's purse.
matt: . . .
nathan: I'm going to write a contract and put it on my blog.
April 28, 2008: Robinson on Loneliness →
“Such a separation, I imagined, could indeed lead to loneliness intense enough to make one conspicuous in bus stations. It occurred to me that most people in bus stations would be conspicuous if it…
April 24, 2008: Goncharov on Studying, and History →
“‘To study! Hasn’t he been taught enough? What does he want to learn? He’s telling you lies, don’t believe him: he deceives you to your face like a small child. Do grown-up people study anything?…
Mail a brick to junk mailers using paid postage →
I usually return those envelopes full of shredded Penny Savers - but here’s a way to up the ante a bit.
Earth Day Kansas Art 2008 →
You can see my highschool art teacher, Mike Henry, in a KU sweatshirt standing next to Stan Herd around 1:11
AirStrike is a new solution from LM3LABS which... →
I think we can all thank Tom Cruise for these innovations. Right?
April 22, 2008: Goncharov on overdoing it →
”’… and everything , everything is so remarkably, so thrillingly true to life… . I’ve heard extracts from it - the author is a great man! He reminds one of Dante and Shakespeare … ‘ ‘…
Kansas City is in Missouri →
Sooner or later, somebody was going to make this website. I’m just glad it wasn’t me.
BLDGBLOG: Hotels in the Afterlife →
giant, abandoned hotel skeletons in the siani peninsula
Australian territory expands with continental... →
look out, new zealand - australia just got HUGE
New ad for the Discovery Channel is pretty much... →
with a closing line, “The world is just awesome.”
April 19, 2008 →
“Then, suddenly, out of nowhere, there was connection between them again. It came on him as he was working in the fields. The tension, the bond, burst, and the passionate flood broke forward into a…
Hi Diggers! If you’ve seen In Vestimentis Ursum, then you might also like my plan to dissolve the US into smaller nations, or my Sketch Experiments.
New City Gates church goes live: Topeka Bible... →
Designed by TBC’s pastor of Worship Arts, Bryan Nelson. And powered by City Gates!
Edible online store sells 'challenging' foods. ... →
How could anyone pass up product descriptions like, “YOU MAY FIND YOUR ANIMAL SPIRIT IF YOU EAT IT”
Maybe Money Does Buy Happiness After All - New... →
Check out the two notable outliers on the graph here: Hong Kongers are less happy than comparatively rich people, and Danes are the happiest people on earth.
Designers Toolbox: OS Form Elements →
Helpful photoshop tools for mocking up web pages. Nice!
vertical resonator: Revamping or Creating a Church... →
City Gates client Bryan Nelson does a nice little writeup - and screencast! - of City Gates, the content management system for church websites.
The ampersand →
a brief history of everyone’s favorite glyph
Anastasia Ward takes apart moving toys and... →
It’s like the really-dedicated version of my In Vestimentis Ursum project. More dedicated, and more better.
April 13, 2008: Nordhoff & Hall on Antipathies →
“I had long expected something of the sort to happen, and had only wondered that an open break between Captain Bligh and the carpenter had not come before this time. There was such a deep and…
Jackson Knife rocks the Soho Apple store →
coming soon to an ipod commercial near you
Long story short: company needs to use the moon's... →
but they can’t, because Boing has a patent on using the moon’s gravity for that sort of thing. Seriously?
Remember Johnny Lee's Wiimote hack, turning the... →
Well, he’s got more, and he presented them this year at TED. Did you hear that? At TED.
The Onion's AV Club discusses one of my favorite... →
“The genius of Primer is that form matches content.”
Super Mario in 14kB Javascript →
that’s pretty much all you need to know. amazing.
The infinitely bad sneeze →
You sneeze, which delays you by two seconds. It doesn’t just delay you by two seconds, though; it also delays everyone waiting in line behind you. Forever.
Bill James shares his method to determine when a... →
It’s jayhawk-centric, too!
At The Buzzer on Vimeo →
KU fans at the Boardwalk in San Diego celebrate the last minute 3 pointer that put KU into overtime against Memphis in the 2008 NCAA National Championship.
Craftzine.com blog: Tetris Baby Blanket →
Kayleigh’s most recent craft project makes it big. Seriously, the Craft: Magazine people. How sweet is that?
Great photo: fans crowd Massachusetts Street in... →
rock chalk!
Thirty-fourth President: Dwight D. Eisenhower →
I like Ike! Sure, we can thank Eisenhower for his pivotal role in WWII, for the space race, for a more powerful Social Security. But personally? I’m big, big fan of the Interstate Highway System….
Thirty-third President: Harry S Truman →
What you already know about Harry S Truman: thirty-third President, military officer, from Missouri and had to be shown stuff, FDR’s final VP, narrowly defeated Dewey for reelection, saw the end…
The Great Wall of Hong Kong →
I’ve seen this postcard (they sell it in my old neighborhood) and often wondered the same thing.
Boring couple sue Google over photos →
SUCH a perfect headline.
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City Gates - the content management system for church websites
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April 7, 2008: Kierkegaard on Faith →
“Precisely because resignation is antecedent, faith is no esthetic emotion but something far higher; it is not the spontaneous inclination of the heart but the paradox of existence.”
—Kierkegaard,…
It's like a lifestream, except not. →
Seriously, that’s it.
April 6, 2008: Kierkegaard on the Teleological... →
“The difference between the tragic hero and Abraham is very obvious. The tragic hero is still within the ethical. He allows an expression of the ethical to have its telos [end, goal] in a higher…
Thirty-second President: Franklin D. Roosevelt →
FDR was one of our best-loved presidents: he saw the country through the Great Depression, another World War, and was elected four times! He was responsible for the New Deal, he supported…
back on the wagon
New Presidents! Our good friends FDR and Truman have arrived.