Random Links.
Jake Bouma has a great round up on some interesting ways to use Twitter. I’m now using 2 of them . . . one that calculates the fuel economy on my Vespa in real time and another that allows you to automatically Tweet any of my blog posts (you can find this at the bottom of my posts). I’m already using the TwitterFeed that automatically pulls in my blog content.
Here’s a great timeline on end times. This is another reason why I don’t hold to the conventional view. It’s too damn complicated. (click to enlarge) (ht: Nick)
Apparently, there is this thing called SmarterChild integrated into AIM. Anybody use it? Is it worth my time?
It’s worth reading Corey Hau’s blog just for the photos he takes. Let alone the great mini-narratives that go along with them.
This is AWESOME!!!
Random Links.
From now on when I do post random links, I’ll try do so around lunch so that those of you who are bored at your cubicle can have some lunch-time reading.
Check out this site. It’s called WalkScore. You put in your address and it tells you everything within walking distance as well as gives you a score on the “walkability” of your neighborhood. It told me what I already know. That suburbia is SUV heaven and the suburban gods mega-loathe walking. (ht: Wess Daniels)
5 Minutes To Kill Yourself Game – If you’re bored at work, take 5 minutes and try to kill yourself within the confines of your cubicle. It’s actually pretty amusing. Be sure to look for the Pentecostal chick who unleashes snakes on you, the pinata, and be sure to go in the bathroom and upstairs to the boss’s office.
Subversive Blogger Awards – My friend Jake awarded me with a Subversive Blogger Award. I’d like to thank my momma, Jesus, and Rick Rubin. Now I tag Ariah Fine and Corey Hau, for their fine work at flipping the system on end.
Keane Fine has another excellent Moleskin Doodle.
Julie Clawson is one of the best bloggers out there, consistently blogging great content and squeezing in time for podcasts too
Random Links.
Our podcast got transcribed from one of Slice of Laodicea and Ingrid’s henchmen. Ken Silva does a nice job of slamming us. Thanks for the link Ken!
Some beautiful reflections on Buy Nothing Day, our shared contradictions, and fashion among other things.
New podcast up with my personal friend Ed Stetzer, from my old Southern Baptist days.
Rudy Giuliani makes an excellent point (ht: Cindy Bryan). I only wish he didn’t want to resort to the same tactics that we’ve always used to resolve those struggles. Excerpt below . . .
I get very, very frustrated when I . . . hear certain Americans talk about how difficult the problems we face are, how overwhelming they are, what a dangerous era we live in. I think we’ve lost perspective. We’ve always had difficult problems, we’ve always had great challenges, and we’ve always lived in danger.
Do we think our parents and our grandparents and our great grandparents didn’t live in danger and didn’t have difficult problems? Do we think the Second World War was less difficult that our struggle with Islamic terrorism? Do we think that the Great Depression was a less difficult economic struggle for people to face than the struggles we’re facing now? Have we entirely lost perspective of the great challenges America has faced in the past and has been able to overcome and overcome brilliantly? I think sometimes we have lost that perspective.
Do you know what leadership is all about? Leadership is all about restoring that perspective that this country is truly an exceptional country that has great things that it is going to accomplish in the future that will be as great and maybe even greater than the ones we’ve accomplished in the past. If we can’t do that, shame on us.
