StorySquared has promise written all over it by several different authors simultaneously! Whew, try saying that 10 times fast.
This is a story telling site where you get to offer the classic 'first line of the story' and then the community gets to write the rest of it.
"It was a dark and stormy night..."
"It was a dark and stormy knight..."
Your results:
You are Derrial Book (Shepherd)
Even though you are holy
you have a mysterious past.
Click here to take the Serenity Personality Quiz
Bruce Schneier brings joy to our lives with such wonderous observations...
Is Everything a Bomb these Days?
In New Mexico, a bomb squad blows up two CD players, duct-taped to the bottoms of church pews, that played pornographic messages during Mass. This is a pretty funny high school prank and I hope the kids that did it get suitably punished. But they're not terrorists. And I have a hard time believing that the police actually thought CD players were bombs.
Meanwhile, Irish police blew up a tape dispenser left outside a police station.
And not to be outdone, the Dutch police mistook one of their own transmitters for a bomb. At least they didn't blow anything up.
Okay, everyone. We need some ideas, here. If we're going to think everything weird is a bomb, then the false alarms are going to kill any hope of security.
Posted on February 23, 2007 at 12:38
With eloquence that befits the voice of reason The Head Lemur tells it straight...
You can do a simple search and replace using dope, booze, or sex in place of music. The addiction is the same. You are not special. The solution is simple. Stop Buying Music From The RIAA Member Companies. If you cut off their money, they will cease to exist, and you can build a better tomorrow.
God, grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
This is the very reason that 'I don't dance and I don't do magic.'
"The world is its own magic." - Sunri Suzuki
http://evelynrodriguez.typepad.com/crossroads_dispatches/
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http://contrapants.org/blog/2005/07/gmailthis.html
It is my fault that Joel Spolsky has not received the credit that he deserves. Let me make it up to him and to you by directing your attention to Joel's post
1. Fix everything two ways
2. Suggest blowing out the dust
3. Make customers into fans
4. Take the blame
5. Memorize awkward phrases
6. Practice puppetry
7. Greed will get you nowhere
8. (Bonus!) Give customer service people a career path
Moral of this story: Be careful who you get in bed with. If you lay down with dogs you will get up with fleas.
I have taken to turning the radio or the television OFF when advertisers insult my intelligence (as small as my intelligence is).
It is suggested that advertising pays for radio and television content, the shows. Content providers, the show producers, should be _very wary_ of who they allow to pay for their work. Because, if I turn off the radio or television I am really diminishing the value of the content at the price of the advertising. Advertising products that I will purposefully go out of my way to avoid at all costs. So now two providers are impacted, the content and the product.
1.) Products that allow or accept insulting advertising get what they deserve. It might be a great product but if you insult the consumer - oh well. In your case you will get what I will not pay for.
2.) Content providers that allow or accept insulting advertising are getting the fleas! And if you have ever been around a pet with fleas you know the feeling. By turning the radio or television off I am, in my small way, impacting the content provider's market share. Less market share means that they will have more and more difficulty coming up with the money to produce their quality content. It is a shame that content providers suffer because of the very advertisers that supposedly are paying the bills.
"...head first!"
I just assumed that it went without saying, "...head first!" But I found myself standing there and explaining it to him...
Some Tuesdays it doesn't pay to get out of bed on Monday morning...
Since I expressed my surprise and (muffled tongue-n-cheek) disappointment that CodeNut (Steven Hudson) didn't make the Top 10 "Bad Things" for blogging at Winextra.com it seems only fitting and proper that I acknowledge Winextra's achievement in making Spiderbait's Top 5 Underrated Blogs : Check Them Out!
Keep up the good work Steven!
tobyMac rocked HIS house!!! No, I don't mean he rocked his own house. I mean he rocked His house. He, Him, Jesus, that's who.
As the culmination of Elevation tobyMac 'preached' a 90 minute sermon that spoke directly to his congregation. Over 1300 middle and high school age youth came out to be Elevated, to be lifted up in the Spirit. And it was spirit filled. It was electrifying. It was as us old folks say, "cool!"
[Aside: Over the course of the past few days I have heard a number of detractors 'dissing' the very thought of a Christian Rapper. I was pleased and excited to watch those same detractors watch every second of the show with rapt attention - and receive the Word. I take great heart in the knowledge that you cannot unhear the message.]
It is OK that people, like myself, are coffee snobs.
It is OK that people favor one coffee shop over others.
It is OK that there is extreme competition between coffee shops.
It is even OK that one particular coffee shop in the greater Seattle area has chosen to "outfit" their Barristas in the skimpiest of 'uniforms'. (I believe that said 'uniforms' were worn voluntarily by said Barristas. )
It is NOT OK, in my opinion, for a venerable news organization like CBS Sunday Morning to showcase such a blatant 'grab' at the pulchritude of market share. It was a cheap shot and not even espresso.
