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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:22:30 -0800

I was feeling old and paralyzed last night as I drove home. It was my daughter’s second birthday (she has officially graduated from tiny baby to little person). It had been a typical case-of-the type…

70 High Resolution Photos from Tron Legacy

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:02:10 -0800

70 High Resolution Photos from Tron Legacy:

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How awesome was the movie trailer for Tron: Legacy? I know I’ve watched it at least five times now, and that doesn’t count the two times I saw it in 3D at…

This new She & Him video is the most adorable thing you'll see today (unless you get to hang out with Bella).

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:58:32 -0800

Daniel Simon - Tron Legacy Designer

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:08:00 -0800

Daniel Simon - Tron Legacy Designer

I wish they had a video like this for pants,...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:05:00 -0800

I wish they had a video like this for pants, too.

putthison:

lonelysandwich:

“Ironing techniques by professional craftsmen (shirt)” - プロの職人によるアイロンがけテクニック(ワイシャツ)

This short instructional film showcases unmatchably masterful ironing technique that we’d all do well to learn from, but it’s also one of the most absorbing, delicious demo videos I’ve ever seen.

via Joel Zimmer, from a series of similarly beautiful instructional videos at Garra.jp (WARNING: ALL-FLASH and Japanese)

Get ready for These New Puritans to expand your horizons.

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:13:37 -0800

Hidden - These New Puritans

Special thanks to Andy Whitman for highlighting some brilliant music that I would have otherwise completely missed (second time he has done so this year for me).

WHAT TIME IS IT?

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:29:04 -0800

"What it means, rather, is that your life and happiness have been mapped out ahead of time with a..."

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:08:40 -0800

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What it means, rather, is that your life and happiness have been
mapped out ahead of time with a suffocating specificity. There is one
job — one particular, singular job — which is God’s Will For Your
Life. And there is one potential spouse — one particular, singular
spouse — who is GWFYL. And thus every decision which might in any way
lead toward or away from either of those must be pondered with an
agonizing consideration of just what is GWFYL. Every date (or
“courtship”), your choice of college (or Bible College) and choice of
major is a fork in the road leading closer to or farther from this
narrowly appointed happiness.

This notion of GWFYL transforms the process of living into something
like the fairy-tale path through the haunted forest — the Mirkwood
trail or the Yellow Brick Road. Except that those paths in those
stories are always clearly marked, whereas the trail of GWFYL is
invisible and inscrutable and can only be intuited by some visceral
sense of spiritual leading.

The idea is a kind of spiritualized version of the romantic pipe-dream
of The One — and it tends to produce the same fearfully tentative,
second-guessing approach to living. There’s a bit of good advice in
Conor Oberst’s “First Day,” in which he sings, “I’d rather be working
for a paycheck / than waiting to win the lottery.” But the notion of
GWFYL or of waiting for The One turns that advice upside-down, viewing
such practical work as a dangerous distraction from one’s
lottery-playing duties.

One reason I don’t much care for this idea of GWFYL is that I’ve seen
its effect on young evangelicals forced to shoulder its crushing
burden. No one can live like that, governed by an ultimate-stakes
gamble based on unwritten rules, offering no assurance other than that
the potential for inadvertent-but-damning disobedience lurks in every
decision.

Just as importantly, I don’t care for the way this notion takes
something explicitly clear and invariable — the will of God — and
twists it into something mysterious, ever-changing and idiosyncratic.

What is God’s Will For Your Life? the prophet asks, and then answers
his own question, “To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly
with your God.” That’s from the Bible — a book that’s rather
repetitive and unambiguous on the question of GWFYL.

”

- slacktivist on the evangelical concept of God’s Will For Your Life

The way I understand it, God does have a will for your life. It is
exactly what is happening to you. There is no “perfect will” that you
can fall out of by making a bad decision. That’s the whole idea of
Christ as the redeemer. God is sovereign. Or, to quote Lost, whatever
happens, happens.

Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn own you. (via brandonnn)

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:02:46 -0800

Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn own you. (via brandonnn)

#601; The Discovery that Changed the World

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:54:46 -0800

#601; The Discovery that Changed the World:

Foods That Will Win The War and How to Cook Them

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:34:36 -0800

Foods That Will Win The War and How to Cook Them

Sarah Palin Is Basically Snooki | TV | Hater | The A.V. Club

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:34:36 -0800

Sarah Palin Is Basically Snooki | TV | Hater | The A.V. Club

New Tron Legacy Photo Takes Us Inside Flynn’s Arcade

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:36:54 -0800

New Tron Legacy Photo Takes Us Inside Flynn’s Arcade:

The official countdown to the in-theater debut of the Tron: Legacy movie trailer continues (I call it “the slow tease”), with a third photo: Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund) inside the old…

Jonas Brothers' Screaming Teen Fans to Overrun Saddleback Church Easter Service? - Orange County Music - Heard Mentality

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:59:06 -0800

Jonas Brothers' Screaming Teen Fans to Overrun Saddleback Church Easter Service? - Orange County Music - Heard Mentality

Exclusive: Mad Magazine’s Avatar Parody

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:33:48 -0800

Exclusive: Mad Magazine’s Avatar Parody:

MAD Magazine has given us an exclusive look at Sergio Aragones’ “A MAD Look At Avatar” parody comic strip from the next issue (#503), which goes on sale March 23rd. Sergio has been working…

I didn’t care for the new Gorillaz single (Stylo) the...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:46:55 -0800

I didn’t care for the new Gorillaz single (Stylo) the first few times I heard it, but it’s really grown on me. I keep finding it stuck in my head.

Soothing Music of the Morning: Clogs

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:41:33 -0800

The Creatures In The Garden Of…

Featuring Sufjan Stevens, My Brightest Diamond, and the National, here’s some sparkling chamber pop that, for once, focuses on the “chamber” side of the equation. It will make your overcast day just a smidge brighter.

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Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:10:57 -0800

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Lady Astronauts!

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:00:00 -0800

Take a look at this great gallery of portraits of female astronauts by comics artist Philip J Bond! [via MeFi]

"Toodee, do you really have magic beans and can fly?"

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:22:27 -0800

“Toodee, do you really have magic beans and can fly?”

- Plex (from Yo Gabba Gabba)