Sunday, November 24

Author walljm

I have been writing on the web since 2000. I am a christian , a photographer, an occasional poet, a recovering dreamer, an occasional philosopher, a software developer, an autodidact, and I resemble the INFP personality type.

The Movie Timeline If all the movies were mapped chronilogically, just how many facts would line up?

3106_2_6348.jpg (JPEG Image, 380×253 pixels) Finalist in the natural category for the 3rd annual photo contest held by the Smithsonian Magazine.

Rachel Papo: Serial No. 3817131 Photos of women serving their mandatory two years in the Israeli Military

The New Yorker: HERE’S WHY – A sociologist offers an anatomy of explanations. by MALCOLM GLADWELL “In “Why?” (Princeton; $24.95), the Columbia University scholar Charles Tilly sets out to make sense of our reasons for giving reasons.”

Blumpy.org : In-Brain 3D An example of 3-d video without using goggles. The same way you can create 3-d photos by viewing two photos from slightly different angles and then crossing your eyes to blend them, you can take a video and if you set the second video to play 1 frame behind the first, it will appear 3-d. Cool.

Goodbye, war on smoking. Hello, war on fat. By William Saletan “Should we regulate French fries like cigarettes?”

callofezekiel’s Xanga Site – 4/17/2006 9:05:42 AM “White people are hard to understand…” In the linked post, Warren explains the frustration sometimes felt by pastors from different church cultures when preaching in different congregations. I’ve experienced this first hand, because when visiting more charismatic (in the sense of worship style) churches, people sometimes ask me if I’m ok because I look serious.Some people just don’t participate in worship the same way others do. I can attest, that in many “fundamentalist” churches, the “AMEN!” and “PREACH IT!” sections are large, and though I enjoy hearing the congregation and preacher get into…

Fibonacci Poems Multiply on the Web After Blog’s Invitation – New York Times “More professional poets may be attracted to the form”, said Annie Finch, a poet who teaches at the University of Southern Maine. “Poets are very, very hungry for constraint right now,” said Ms. Finch, who has written about formal poetry. “Poets are often poets because they love to play with words and love constraints that allow the self to step out of the picture a little bit. The form gives you something to dance with so it’s not just you alone on the page.”

5ives >> Five suggested Flickr tags “Rows Of Seated White Men Typing At Conferences”

Honeymoon (kottke.org) Jason and Meg are back. Why does this matter? Well, because as nice as Greg Knauss, David Jacobs, and Anil Dash are, they just aren’t very good at links, not like Jason is. I depend on Kottke’s link log for a fair portion of my new internet interest, and it is good to have him back.

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