- Scholars give us antiquity — the colorized version. “We now know that the unblemished white surface of Michelangelo’s ‘David’ or Bernini’s ‘St. Teresa in Ecstasy’ would have been considered unfinished according to classical standards. The sculpture and architecture of the ancient world was, in fact, brightly and elaborately painted. The only reason it appears white to us is that centuries of weathering have worn off most of the paint.” 09/30/2007
- Thomas Friedman questions if we have become The United States of Fighting Terrorism. “Times columnists are not allowed to endorse candidates, but there’s no rule against saying who will not get my vote: I will not vote for any candidate running on 9/11. We don’t need another president of 9/11. We need a president for 9/12.” 09/30/2007
Introducing my first youth group
September 26th, 2007 | 
Eikon, originally uploaded by jakebouma on flickr.
When I worked as a youth ministry intern at Valley Church, my boss (and youth ministry guru), Brandon Barker, had an old picture hanging in his office of one of his first youth groups. I always thought it was really cool- in a nostalgic kind of way.
Anyway, these are (most of) the kids in my senior high ministry, and judging by the picture, I think they really like me. I hope that in twenty years I’m still doing youth ministry and I can look back at this picture hanging on my future office wall with pride and joy.
P.S. Brandon, if you’re reading this, can you refresh my memory on the story of the aforementioned picture hanging on your wall?
Are you suffering from Heroes hysteria?
Sometime least fall, I came down with a horrible case of Heroes hysteria. Not much is known about the disease, so I just let the thing run its course, and although it took about eight months, I eventually conquered it. Well, Heroes hysteria has returned to my system. At least, I’m feeling the symptoms, anyway. I have a feeling that it will worsen tonight at about 9/8 central.
Since last year’s iteration of the disease, Heroes hysteria has mutated itself to become stronger and more contagious. Not convinced? Here are seven reasons why (warning: spoilers).
Please pray for me while I battle this wonderful, wonderful disease.
- Grist.com offers an incredibly detailed list of articles called How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic which contain responses to the most common skeptical arguments about global warming. This could come in handy. 09/23/2007
Free entry into a $4000 prize draw
In order to celebrate the 1 year anniversary of his blog, David Airey (along with the help of several sponsors) is giving away over $4000 worth of blogging-related prizes, and all you have to do to enter is to write a blog post about the giveaway. Easy enough, huh?
And if the $4000 in prizes isn’t enough to entice you in itself, here are just a few of the things being given away:
There are PLENTY more prizes being given away, so what are you waiting for? Blog about it and get yourself entered into the drawing!
- How (not) to cheat in online poker. 09/20/2007
- If you haven’t yet heard, the NY Times just discontinued their Times Select subscription program and has made much more of their 150+ years of content available for anyone to read and/or link to. Gems from the archive of the New York Times is a fantastic roundup of some of the free goodies now available, including an early report of Lincoln’s assassination, a front page report on the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and the first mention of pre-phenomenon Harry Potter. 09/19/2007
- iConcertCal is hands down the greatest plugin for iTunes. Ever. Using iTunes’ visualizer, it shows you (in the form of a calendar) when artists from your iTunes library will be playing live in your area, AND it shows you when artists in your library are releasing new albums. For a music lover and new-music-aholic like myself, this plugin is just amazing. 09/19/2007
- RelevantMagazine.com is streaming the entire EP of The Reign of Kindo on their website. The rock/jazz/funk band includes four members of the recently dismantled band This Day & Age (who, if you remember, I love). Hopefully this is merely a sneak peek of what’s to come with this new band. 09/19/2007
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