DIY web site Instructables has an anybody-can-do-it tutorial for creating your own flexible tripod – capable of attaching itself to most objects – on the cheap.
All that’s required is 3 pieces of stiff wire (you can use wire coat hangers), a 1/4″ bolt, and electrical tape.
Via Lifehacker
D Magazine looking for new editor
D Magazine (in Dallas of course) is looking for a new editor.
This job is hard. It requires a skill set to which very few people can lay claim. We’re not even sure why we’re posting the job here, because we suspect we won’t get any qualified candidates, and it makes us sad to tell people that they’re not good enough. Oh, well. That said …
Driving a hybrid in Highland Park
Shannon Wynne is the head honcho at The Flying Fish, The Flying Saucer and 8.0 and has gone out and bought himself a Prius while living in all places – Highland Park.
Find out why.
Anyone else bought a Prius or considering buying one? Why or why not?
Verse and Quote of the day
From Sojo.net…
Happy are those who consider the poor; the Lord delivers them in the day of trouble. The Lord protects them and keeps them alive; they are called happy in the land. You do not give them up to the will of their enemies.
– Psalms 41:1-2
It is in community that we come to see God in the other. It is in community that we see our own emptiness filled up. It is community that calls me beyond the pinched horizons of my own life, my own country, my own race, and gives me the gifts I do not have within me.
– Joan Chittister
Hinn to travel by Gulfstream
The Lord provided a miracle to televangelist Benny Hinn: a Gulfstream G4SP plane to help deliver the Gospel to the world. Except, the Lord got kinda stingy when it came time to pay for the thing, dubbed Dove One. So Hinn has written a letter asking for donations.
I ask you to prayerfully read the brochure I have enclosed. I am praying that the Lord will speak to you to be one of 6,000 partners who will give $1,000 now or in the next ninety days to cover the remainder of the $6 million down payment for this powerful ministry tool for evangelism.
I’d expect a free trip to somewhere if I gave $1,000 for someone else to buy a Gulfstream. But then again I’m a little stingy.
via Frontburner
Teacher gets audited
A teacher in Chicopee, Massachusetts challenged himself to cut as much electricity as possible from his new home.
According to the Christian Science Monitor, he exchanged incandescent bulbs for compact fluorescents, put switches and surge protectors on his electronic equipment to reduce the “phantom load” – the trickle consumption even when electronic equipment is off – and bought energy-efficient appliances.
The changes cut his energy bill by two-thirds. Wow!
And the energy cut earned him an audit by the local electric company.
The company thought he’d tampered with his meter. “They couldn’t believe I was using so little,” he says.
Via Treehugger.com