ask.metafilter.com is basically a large online community of Q & A’s. I’m getting more and more addicted to it’s random wealth of knowledge. Folks just like you can ask a question and have folks just like me and you propose their solution/answer to your question. Here are some of my picks for top recently posted items:
Month: February 2007
Cure writer’s block
languageisavirus.com hopes to help you cure the common writer’s block. Believe me – I’ve been there. The site offers a number of tools including different writing experiments like this one:
1. Homolinguistic translation: Take a poem (someone else’s, then your own) and translate it “English to English” by substituting word for word, phrase for phrase, line for line, or “free” translation as response to each phrase or sentence. Or translate the poem into another literary style or a different diction, for example into a slang or vernacular. Do several different types of homolinguistic translation of a single source poem. (Cf.Six Fillious by bp nichol, Steve McCaffery, Robert Fillious, George Brecht, Dick Higgins, Dieter Roth, which also included translation of the poem to French and German.) Chaining: try this with a group, sending the poem on for “translation” from person to another until you get back to the first author.
Via: lifehacker
Sunday morning quote
“We must stop simply being the church and start doing church.”
– Brian Treadaway pastor of encounter
Mike Huckabee videos on YouTube
Mike Huckabee – Decade of Duty 4
Videos are popping up on YouTube about possible Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee – former governor of Arkansas.
Books for my birthday
It’s my birthday today and Laurie and I had a great wedding shower this morning, thrown by ladies at our parent’s church.
I don’t think I’ve ever opened so many gifts on my birthday. Thanks so much for everyone who was there and everyone who brought gifts. I think our gift registry is about 70% full now.
But I got a couple checks for my birthday and I think I’m going to go buy some more books for my 30 in 2007 campaign.
I’ve finished four or five already. Not quite on track to reach 30 but I think it can be done.
If anyone has some suggestions give me a call but I think I’m going to head to the bookstore in a few minutes and see what intrigues me.
Barack in Texas this weekend
Presidential candidate Barack Obama was greeted in Austin yesterday by over 15,000 people in the state’s capital. The Star Telegram reported 20,000.
Sources for the Austin American Statesman suggested the candidate may have raised over $250,000 during his trip to the “Longhorn State.”
Standing on a platform slickened by intermittent rain, the third-year U.S. senator from Illinois and Democratic presidential candidate celebrated the nation’s history of overcoming injustices, ranging from slavery to civil rights discrimination to the denial of voting rights to women.
Obama, who has proposed a phased removal of U.S. troops from Iraq starting in May, said he’s proud of opposing the American invasion of Iraq from the start…
Obama said: “I am an imperfect vessel. This campaign is not going to be about me. Ultimately, it’s going to be about you.”
Urging people to enlist friends on his behalf, he said: “Tell ’em it’s time for you to turn off the TV, stop playing GameBoy. We’ve got work to do.”
Read more from the Statesman, Morning News, Chronicle and Star Telegram.