January 6th, 2005 |
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Humor and Satire
I can’t believe this worked.
(Via Kottke)
On the 22nd of December 2004, Kyle Van Horn taped a disposable camera to a piece of black foamcore and inscribed upon it the following message: “ATTENTION POSTAL WORKERS! Please help us with our project. As this camera travels across the country we want photos of all whom it encounters. Please take a photo before you pass it along. Thank you!”
I just want to conclude this by saying how awesome the United States Postal Service is. I think our mail system is grossly underappreciated, especially after seeing what an excellent sense of humour our postal workers have even in the post-9/11, post-”anthrax scare” world we live in. So, a big thank you to the Post Office, you guys rock.
January 5th, 2005 |
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Art and Design
GUUUI – Navigation blindness
“For almost seven years, my studies have shown the same user behavior: users look straight at the content and ignore the navigation areas when they scan a new page.”
I wonder if this stems from people not knowing the correct way to analyze something. For instance, alot of people probably just pick up a book without looking at the table of contents. But once you are trained to look at the table of contents, the jacket cover, etc. things make alot more sense before you start diving in.
January 5th, 2005 |
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Politics
N.J. man charged with aiming laser at aircraft
She said her client was playing with his young daughter, using the laser’s narrow green beam to point at stars and illuminating trees and neighbor’s houses. FBI agents and police swarmed Banach’s Parsnippany, N.J., home Friday night after a green laser was pointed at a police helicopter overhead.
The maximum sentence for this is 25 years. Unbelievable. Not that I think people should shine lasers at airplanes, but swarming some guys house because of it and arresting him is crazy. They should go catch terrorists or something with all that money they take from us.
January 5th, 2005 |
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Humor and Satire
Ever wanted to weave your own money wallet out of 20 one-dollar bills? Here are your instructions.
January 5th, 2005 |
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Art and Design
I’ve refined the header and the navigation bar a little. Looks a little sharper now, at least on my Mac!
January 5th, 2005 |
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Religion
MatthewHall.net » INDIVIDUASTIC SACRAMENTALISM
Matt Hall reports on Kent Hughes’s practice of infant baptism. Unlike Hall, the mode troubles me (I guess I still have some Southern Baptist left in me) as much as the “make your own sacrament’ sort of ecclesiology” (which I think is a great quote, by the way)!
January 4th, 2005 |
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Religion
What are some books that DG recommends?
…has been updated. There are some really good books on there! Now only if I had the cash to purchase them and the time to read them!
January 3rd, 2005 |
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Literature
Who is an unliterary man? Not what you may think, according to C.S. Lewis.
An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only. There is hope for a man who has never read Malory or Boswell or Tristaram Shandy or Shakespeare’s Sonnets: But what can you do with a man who says he “has read” them, meaning he has read them once, and thinks that this settles the matter? . . . . We do not enjoy a story fully at first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties. Till then, it is like wasting great wine on a ravenous natural thirst which merely wants cold wetness.
—C.S. Lewis, “On Stories” in Essays Presented to Charles Williams