[challies] Turn Off Your Phone (short video)
Big list of resources and tools related to Web Domains
[elsie] PHD Comics on the subject of Facebook
DVD: The Game
The Game has aged well: still a great thriller - even when you know the ending. More bad language in it than I remember. Michael Douglas is awesome as the lead.
periphrastic (circumlocutory, pleonastic)
Movie: Ocean’s Thirteen
Not as good as eleven, made all the more infuriating by its visual similarity to the original. Some character development has taken place, perhaps, in the intervening years, but this is mostly a couple of hours watching a group of old friends have fun together. Clever, but doesn’t have the heart of the [...]
Colour Inspiration from the Masters of Painting
A Long Line for a Shorter Wait at the Supermarket
[Between Two Worlds] Advice from a wise old Christian in countering depression: Talk, Don’t Listen, to Yourself
Career advice: 10 fatal flaws of a doomed employee
If you’re keen, Amazon will let you preorder a boxed set of Harry Potter Books 1-7.
A wet week in north sydney
For those of you reading this while feeling nostalgic for sydney weather, it’s mutual. Hard to believe that we were in a drought, wondering if it would ever rain again!
We pray for rain, but always secretly hope that it will only fall exactly where [...]
A technical guide to Surviving 100,000 instant Visitors on a Budget; how to tune your webserver and such.
Last night, I was in charge of both leading and playing piano in the evening service. I’m getting the hang of balancing these two responsibilities together, but it puts a certain amount of time pressure on the preparation for the evening service. This would be apparent to anyone who listened to my opening spiel last [...]
DVD: Infernal Affairs
This 2002 Hong Kong movie was the basis for Scorsese’s The Departed. Having watched this film, there’s not much in the latter film that is original - it’s just had the Hollywood treatment, which is to say, an increase in violence, more sex and adult themes, and a slightly more complex plot. The [...]
Movie: Zodiac
Most of the people I mentioned this movie to hadn’t heard it, which isn’t too much of a surprise. Unlike director David Fincher’s earlier, more enigmatic work, this is a much more restrained piece. Like a 2.5 hour episode of Law and Order, this meanders along, telling the story of a serial killer who [...]
On the way to the gym this morning, I was congratulating myself on the restraint that I showed at bible study last night.
One of the books I’ve read as part of going to college mentioned that the author would never allow a first year college student to preach. A first year, he says, has their [...]
[Zondar] How to Use a Coffee Plunger (you’ll be surprised at how chopsticks fit into the process)
Perplexing many, Episcopal priest announces she’s a Muslim, too. The truly worrying thing here, beyond this lady’s views, is that her bishop (the person who could ask her to step down from being a priest) thinks she’s perfectly okay in being both a Christian and a Muslim. I suspect she hasn’t really understood what it [...]
An article investigating how children lost the right to roam in four generations. We grew up in a cul-de-sac, and were allowed to play outside on our own street, but not cross any other roads. Kids today? Not so free.