Swimming in Syrup
Thursday, September 30th, 2004 Posted in Technology | 1 Comment »The University of Minnesota has proved that people can swim just as fast in water as they can in syrup. It will be a defining scientific break through for our times, and it happened in my home town. Proud does ...
Relient K on eBay
Tuesday, September 28th, 2004 Posted in Art, Music | No Comments »Gotee Records is auctioning off a giant 7-foot square version of the cover art of the new Relient K album to benefit DATA. Gotee commissioned artist Jimmy A to paint his interpretation of the cover art and is now auctioning ...
Broken Again
Monday, September 27th, 2004 Posted in Introspection | No Comments »Bad news comes in the form of unexpected communication. A phone call interupting the otherwise normal day. A letter with a strangely familiar return address. An e-mail from someone you haven't heard from in a while. It's that long streak of ...
Poker: It’s Not Just for Old Men Anymore
Monday, September 27th, 2004 Posted in Society | 3 Comments »The newest fad among teens? Sitting around a table in a darkened room shuffling cards and cracking jokes. You'd think they were a bunch of old men. Thanks to the popularity of online poker and cable TV shows like "Celebrity ...
Jesus Raps
Monday, September 27th, 2004 Posted in Music | No Comments »Seems like everyone is noticing those rapsters talking about Jesus. At least Kanye West anyway. This time around it's The Washington Post, focusing mainly on the Stellar Awards committee nominating Kanye West for best rap/hip-hop album and then taking it ...
I’m in a Place Called Vertigo
Friday, September 24th, 2004 Posted in U2 | 5 Comments »The new U2 single "Vertigo" is available today. Officially it's available on radio, but that seems rather quaint. Several U2 fan sites are either providing or linking to downloads of the song (I'll let them do the heavy linking)* or ...
The End of Television as We Know It
Tuesday, September 21st, 2004 Posted in Technology | No Comments »A former TV academy chair ponders the future of TV and home entertainment -- by looking at his family watching different screens spread throughout the house.
The New Bodice-Rippers Have More God and Less Sex
Tuesday, September 21st, 2004 Posted in Books | 1 Comment »The New York Times on the rise of Christian chick-lit, predictably a few years behind the mainstream. But apparently it's not the author's fault: one writer penned a church-friendly chick-lit novel four years ago but her agent couldn't sell it. Now ...
Teenager in the Cinema
Monday, September 20th, 2004 Posted in Movies | No Comments »Ready to be frightened by the tremendous power movies have on the lives of teens? 58% of teens go to the movies in a given week. 92% of teens list going to the movies as an "in" activity (ranked higher than any ...
