Saw this post tonight on Dr Jim West’s blog wondering what users’ virtual spaces look like..
Normally, I have a pic of my kids on my desktop but for several reasons I am feeling a bit more reflective right now, hence my current desktop…

Check back again in about a week and it will likely be a [...]

I have connected deeply with Michael Wesch’s work at Kansas State University. He has put together some marvelous work on the ways that students learn (or don’t learn) today and the ways that the educational system is not meeting students where they are at. On his blog, he recently posted a re-visiting of [...]

Ok - this is a non-political reflection upon the Sarah Palin email hack that took place in the last week or so.  Regardless of how one feels about Sarah Palin and her politics, it is wrong to an incredible level for anyone to hack into someone’s email account.  What is even more obnoxious about the [...]

I am a sucker for beta software.  I love just taking new software out and giving it a spin.  So, when I read this morning about Google’s Chrome browser, I figured I’d give it a go.  I know it would have to be spectacular to take over for Firefox, my browser of choice for the [...]

Being both a tech geek and one who is growing in his appreciation of classical works of art, this photoshop contest on Gizmodo was just brilliant.  There are some brilliant works that people did.
Here’s my favorites
By Rich Lim (posted on front page of above link)

By Michael Renehan

Ok - this might be (ok likely is) a bit of a reach, but I saw some parallels between the sad demise of Facebook’s Scrabulous app today and the way that we too often try to do church.
A bit of history
- Scrabulous created on Facebook and quickly becomes one of the most popular (and addicting) [...]

Well, Steve Jobs…you have done it to me again.  I have been eyeing an ipod touch for a while now (we can’t get AT&T service where I live, so no iphone for me), but already having a decent ipod and a decent PDA got me by.  Well, this week I was offered one that was [...]

Well, since finishing up my thesis (woot!), I have begun to fall in love again with the printed word. While I read over 150 books and other forms of “literature” as sources for my thesis, it is very different to read for a thesis than it is to read for “choice.” So, in the several [...]

One of the beauties of the Internet is that we can be a part of faith communities from afar. We can participate in worship from a distance away. Obviously, it is not the same as being a part of the community in person, but we can get a taste. A few days [...]

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I have been reading xkcd for a while via my newsreader and just found this one today really funny. For those not familiar with XKCD, it defines itself as a “A webcomic of romance,
sarcasm, math, and language.” In other [...]