Love’s the best sensation hiding in the lion’s mane

I learn something new everyday! If you are chatting in Meebo and you double-click on a word in an IM window, a search drop-down menu will pop up next to your cursor with a link to Google, Amazon.com and Wikipedia. This is seriously the most convinient thing ever to be integrated into IMing. If this isn’t good enough reason to switch to Meebo full-time (like I have), then I don’t know what is!

Oh yeah, and has anyone tried Amazon.com’s new video downloading service, Unbox? I wonder if it’s worth it. Is it anything like Netflix?

Also, if you haven’t done it lately, go search for stuff on eBay. They’ve recently revamped their search results page and now it’s much cleaner, clearer, and just all around better. Look at this search result page for Leica Digilux 2 for an example of the new look.

What’s up with the Mat Kearney Wikipedia entry saying that there is speculation that he is gay? Weird!

Do take a look at this 2-hour time lapse photo of downtown Toronto. You can roll over the second photo and see the time lapse in “action”. It’s just beautiful.

For my friends in far away places who are missing the beauty of NYC, take one look at this photo and be brought back into the essence of this fantastic city.

Oh my gosh, haha, Banksy is the man. He placed a life-sized Guantanamo Bay inmate — in full orange dress — inside a ride at Disneyland.
Related: I still want to get Wall and Piece by Banksy.

Remember how I said I went and had the best hummus I’ve ever had with Melanie the other night at Cafe Mogador? Well, it was no lie and here are the pictures to prove it!

Here is a photo of our good Moroccan meal! Yum diddly yum!

American Apparel is giving students 15% off purchases until 9/30/2006. I think they only thing I would ever buy there are their T-shirts. Everything else for guys just feels so cheap. Plus, the American Apparel stores just freak me out with those weird model photos on the walls.

Remember my PUMA Basket-London shoes (picture1 & picture2)? Well, they’ve officially been released to the public now. I wonder if I’m one of the few who are actually wearing the shoe now. I feel somewhat privileged at the moment. :P
Oh, I’ve also finally realized that PUMA is written in all CAPS. Yeah, it’s weird, I know, but the PUMA catalogues are all like that at work and so is the Wikipedia entry for PUMA. Not to mention also that the PUMA corporate website capitalizes each letter in their name as well.

I bought a Calumet 6461 Large Tripod today for VERY cheap (with student discount). It was “expensive” in comparison to the other cheap-o tripods I’ve owned up until now, but I know that I just spent good money on a quality product that will probably last me the rest of my life (with good care). I can’t wait to pick it up on Monday. It looks like a personal missile!!!
Anyway, as I was browsing the Calumet website, I couldn’t help but noticed that the Canon Rebel XTi, the successor to the very popular Rebel XT, is only $799.99 (body). At this starting price, this most definitely means that the Rebel XTi will probably drop in price at online retailers real quickly and probably hit the current selling price of the Rebel XT in only one sales quarter (that’s my shotty prediction). Cheap or not however, what I’m really gunning [or dreaming] for is a Canon EOS 5D. Nothing quite like working off of a full-frame digital body. :)

The Greater Boston Vineyard church website is nice. I’m taking note of it because good “Christian design” is so hard to come by. And when you get to Asian circles, man, the problem just gets way out of hand (see the website for Oversea Chinese Mission for a perfectly ugly example). The problem with cheesy church design is probably related to the content that is fed to us through educational programs and Christian TV and movies.

In a new book, Son of WebPages that Suck, web designer Dean Peters said that church websites are filled with what he calls “Jesus Junk” that looks as ugly as sin.

Peters, who also teaches Sunday school, insisted that pastors get their Jesus Junk fixation from watching too much tacky Christian Television Network programmes, which tempt them to use things like giant, spinning animated crosses on the front page of their sites.

Yeah, the article is a bit dated, but the idea above still stands true in so many ways. With the exception of major conferences, some Christian bands, and major Christian concerts (see 268 Generation, Creation Festival, and 722 for some examples of good and/or better-than-most designs), I think the state of Christian design is still really bad. But there’s good news too. I’ve been seeing people focus a bit more on the aethetics of it all. Er, ok, that was a dumb sentence.

With the 5-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 approaching, it’s interesting to read the various articles and opinion pieces about how Americans, America, and the World has changed since that day in 2001. Without a doubt, widows who also became new parents shortly after the attacks have one of the toughest “jobs” to handle. This year, the babies who were born after 9/11 are old enough to begin questioning where their father is.

As each child discovers a lost father’s life, along come questions: How did Daddy die? Who are the bad guys? Where did the buildings go? When they cleaned up the buildings, did they clean up Daddy, too?

Cloitre says the conversation will change as they grow up. In a few years they will probably want to know whether their fathers would have loved them. As teens, they may wonder about identity — how am I like him?

I wouldn’t even begin to know how to properly explain the situation to a 5-year old. :O

I’ve posted this before, but refresh yourself with the miniature earth presentation. It puts things into perspective by describing how the world might be if it was reduced to 100 people. This thing is made well.

A quick reminder: The Starbucks Salon has started and is going on all week until September 17!

Man of the Year looks like it might be a good entertaining movie.

Want to see a genius at work? Watch the incredible, unbelievable, and mind blowing video below:

HOW DOES HE DO THAT?!
Man, talk about photographic memory! This dude has video memory!!!