Archive for February, 2006

Young, hip, reverent

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

With all the ‘hip’ labels flying around Bluer, Solomon’s Porch and other emerging churches… I think the new Emergent slogan should be “We put the hip in discipleship!” Passageway had a desktop with that, but they never fully embraced it and it apparently disappeared in their all Flash redesign (don’t even get me started on […]

Sony Bravia Ad: Standing out by not shouting

Saturday, February 4th, 2006

Absolutely beautiful.
Watch the extended version for some special moments (the dog is my favorite).
When you’re introducing the next generation of television, you want to make an impact - but that doesn’t mean you have to shout at the top of your voice. And it doesn’t mean you have to be predictable. Sending 250,000 multi-coloured ’superballs’ […]

Weird science fact of the day

Friday, February 3rd, 2006

Ampulex compressa is a wasp that has evolved to tackle roaches, insert a stinger into their brains and disable their escape reflexes. This lets the wasp use the roach’s antennae to steer the roach to its lair, where it can lay its egg in it.
Wasp performs roach-brain-surgery to make zombie slave-roaches
As little Sammy would […]