I’ve been crazy about The Submarine’s second album Honeysuckle Weeks for the last year or so. It’s fun, catchy pop with a great sound. I recently downloaded a live-in-studio session from daytrotter and it forced me to listen to the lyrics of “You, Me and the Bourgeoisie.”  If you don’t think you know the song, [...]

A while back, I posted about Instant Grants from the blog Urban Prankster. Recently, they posted about an LA improv group who spent some time to rain money down on the heads of unsuspecting pedestrians.
Watch the video for the general gist:

Aerial Philanthropy – GuerilLA from David Kartsonis on Vimeo.
There’s something undeniably cool about this: people [...]

I have a friend who used to work as a historical presenter. He would give tours of grist mills and other early 1900s structures while wearing period wear at a place called Greenfield Village. However, best of all he had the privilege of driving actual Model T’s around the Village’s streets whilst waxing eloquently about [...]

I love it when people take the Bible seriously:
The challenge began in April. The Rev. Jeff Greenway used $67,000 loaned by some church families and distributed $50 to adults and $10 to children, challenging them to use their talents to turn the money into something larger.
The $117,500 ultimately collected was enough to repay the families [...]

Former engineers from Google rolled out a new search engine Monday that they claim can, and I quote, “index faster a far larger portion of the Web than Google.” (Google claims to have indexed 1 trillion—as in 1,000,000,000,000—unique URLs.)
Instead of focusing on Web link and audience traffic patterns, www.cuil.com (pronounced “cool”) analyzes the [...]

Yesterday the Codex Sinaiticus site went live. Besides having one of the coolest titles ever, it’s also contains the earliest copy of the NT. The manuscript clocks in at around 1600 years old.
From their About page:
Codex Sinaiticus, a manuscript of the Christian Bible written in the middle of the fourth century, contains the earliest complete [...]

What will $5 get you around the world? There’s an interesting new photo project that collects images of things you can get for $5 around the world. As far as I can see, there’s no deep moral purpose behind the project, but there’s certainly fodder there for some good discussions about relative wealth in different [...]

What would your church do if it were robbed?
I’m not talking about something minor, like somebody stealing silverware out of the church kitchen. What would you do if your church were almost completely cleaned out?
That happened to Kinetic Church earlier this year when a trailer containing most of the church’s possessions was stolen. What did [...]

Another item from the “I’m not sure how useful this is, but it sure is cool” file: some intrepid soul has run many books of the Bible through Wordle, which generates a “word cloud” (like the tag clouds you see on blogs) based on the text. The results give you a visual sense of which [...]

Twitter has proved to be a useful means of communication in the aftermath of the China earthquake. The article rather briefly describes the ways that Twitter is being used to spread news and updates in the disaster area more effectively than traditional media channels.
When Web 2.0-ish tools like Twitter come along, it’s always tempting to [...]