Posted 5/11/2002 08:10:34 PM
The New Capital of Evangelicalism - Christianity Today Magazine

So Dallas is the new evangelical capital of the world? So says this article:

...Dallas has more churches per capita than any other city in the United States, but it also has more shopping malls.

I heard the other day that DFW has the most fake boobs per capita. So Dallas is the Plastic Surgery and the Evangelical Christian capital of the world? Hmm.

Posted 5/11/2002 07:06:45 PM
Don't waste yourself in rejection,
nor bark against the bad,
but chant the beauty of the good.
r.w.emerson

Posted 5/11/2002 06:47:13 PM
joho on kids slam philosophy.

and a cool link to an akma quote:

My resistance to binary approaches to complex problems stems from my conviction that simplification generates more advanced cases of the very problems it's invoked to resolve.

Posted 5/11/2002 04:20:11 PM

Posted 5/11/2002 01:28:34 PM
time too is a construction.
this does not limit its affects in the way we dwell with it,
it simply is not ultimately determinative as we have been prone to think,
as a species we are only now coming to the cusp of time,
only now considering its contingency.

Posted 5/11/2002 01:25:46 PM
Not Only in America: Gun Killings Shake the Europeans

interesting article i just received from cha-cha in NY.

Posted 5/10/2002 11:14:01 AM

put to death:

The best thing to come out of the Enron debacle was the swift and unrelenting vilification of Andersen. Enron may have been run by a pack of theiving, lying bastards, but that didn't come as a surprise to anyone -- they were in the energy-trading business, not the trustworthiness business. But Andersen, ah, they were in the trustworthiness business. Their entire value was as a disinterested, brutally honest third-party auditor. It's become clear -- to my surprise -- that Andersen can't ever rehabilitate their reputation. They have been sentenced to death by the marketplace for betraying its trust.

Posted 5/10/2002 09:28:12 AM
read on /. this morning that drudge is reporting Episode II released on the net. growing up we used to call these "camera print" (spoken with the best apu accent you can muster).

Posted 5/10/2002 09:26:16 AM
predators at peace are not domesticated...

Posted 5/10/2002 12:24:40 AM
i just watched a beautiful mind for the first time. i missed it while in the theaters. tonight i watched an academy copy (thanks bigT). the grandeur of the mind is so evident in the lives of the brilliant academics portrayed in this film. these reminded me of the brilliance of so many i have been honored to walk beside in this life--kdh, jw, rs, kn, et al. more than brilliance, the grandeur of love and the courage to love in the worst of times shown in this film brought me tears--again reminding me of so many.

Posted 5/9/2002 09:56:51 PM
a bunch of us went to the arlington museum of modern art last night to partake in a poetry night. it happens weekly. we went last week, but were two hours late. everyone was walking out as we were walking in. so, as blogged below, we went to bentley's and had our own impromptu poetry night…. but i digress… this get together last night was a very cool experience. a diverse audience, widely different writing and delivery styles, lots of smiles, snaps and a cool space... i had to leave early. saw senator and raptor on the way out. i was moved to write a bit—though i probably should have been more discrete with it. one of those weird premonitions...

Posted 5/9/2002 09:43:43 PM
on a short enough timeline suspense intrigues me...
but without mystery even suspense becomes routine...
that, oddly enough, can be comforting as well...

suspense motivates
mystery captivates
routine makes it all real

Posted 5/9/2002 01:11:00 PM
soundtrack for my life today: The Saint - the score.

it has been resonating throughout my car and condo on repeat for 5 hours.

Posted 5/9/2002 12:12:07 PM
some very well articulated thinking on p2p by specz.

p2p is one of those shifts in thinking that spawns ideas that impact far more than just computing.

Posted 5/9/2002 12:01:54 PM

people often invoke the darwinian principal, "the survival of the fittest," without knowing what charles was saying with these words. his most famous thought is made to serve people's justification for overwhelming power or some IQ prerequisite in office politics, national affairs or academic situations. what intrigues me is how fundamentally darwin's words are subverted when used in this manner.

it is not the strongest of
the species that survives,
nor the most intelligent,
but the one that responds
to change.
-c.darwin

Posted 5/9/2002 07:02:35 AM
BBC News | SCI/TECH | Cosmic catastrophe 'a certainty'

the end of the world as we know it...

Posted 5/9/2002 07:00:13 AM
i am finding myself in more moments of lucid confusion the longer i live.
fearing i have lost myself, i sit back and find joy in that prospect.

Posted 5/8/2002 12:42:24 PM

Posted 5/8/2002 09:28:50 AM

breathe deep.
exhale color and song.

Posted 5/8/2002 09:27:42 AM

with 7 questions i can clone your cell phone...

IBM is releasing a report on cloning GSM SIMs through analyzing signals received from a phone when queried in seven different ways. the electromagnetic field changes and power fluctuations allow a would be cloner to mimic a SIM's cryptographic identity. neato. you still have to guess the pin, but you can brute force a 4 number pin with 10,000 entries.

Posted 5/8/2002 09:02:43 AM

content is a whore

halley writes of content in a recent blog entry:

I don't call what I write "content." I call it my writing. I don't call the child I gave birth to a "consumer" or a "citizen" or a "voter." I call him my son.

It's only when someone wants to make money off my creative efforts that they call my work "content." Only a person who wants to manage, manipulate, steal or sell my words calls it "content."

if content is a whore it follows then that those seeking to broker content could be pimps. i think this is one of the real problems in religious circles. everyone wants to be a content manager. there seems to be too many jesus pimps roaming the land. who wants to serve like jesus? who wants to sign up to lose themselves like jesus? who wants to create without need for brand, duration, penetration... like jesus?

ideology brokering is inherently about power -- protecting "us" and winning "them."

how does one live, speak and write otherwise? or, perhaps, the more pressing question, who wants to?

Posted 5/7/2002 11:59:47 PM
BBC News | AMERICAS | US renounces world court treaty

another one of those unilateral moves that just kills our rep with the world. i understand the reasons given in withdrawing. the issues here are three fold for me. briefly:

1. governing continuity: we agreed to this and our former president pledged the USoA's commitment.
2. strategic hypocrisy: we are happy to use the hague to prosecute when it is to our advantage.
3. monarchial posture: we act as if we are the kings of the world who need not work within enforceable international law.

Posted 5/7/2002 10:22:16 PM
from angry coder.

The job market is pretty tough out there. Don't make it any tougher by slipping up in the interview process....

From the home office here at angryCoder.com, the category for today is:

Top 10 Things Not To Say To A Recruiter

10. Would I be a manager or would I have to do real work?
09. I think this phone is tapped. Can we meet at your house instead?
08. What's their policy on sexual harrasment?
07. When you say source code, what exactly do you mean by that?
06. My boss had an issue with on-the-job nudity. Is that a problem?
05. I'm not sure the FBI will let me work on computers anymore.
04. Oh sure, I know those guys. I already hacked into their web site.
03. This is great timing; they've just asked me to pack up my desk.
02. You know the Melissa Virus? That was my idea!
01. My manager has a restraining order against me anyways.

Posted 5/7/2002 10:06:51 PM
bow before young boba fett! [edit: is it just me, or does young fett look like a spy kid?]

Posted 5/7/2002 06:15:06 PM

deconstruction is a quasi-analysis and affirmation of unknowing and otherness, yet all the while seems to remain a deconstructive structuralism.

i suggest that a more adequate metaphor for our existence after the structuralism of modernity is the networked age. we find this age interconnected by definition, characterized by disruption through wider connections, holding onto a nuanced continuity in existential and communal identity through a more explicit selection of and innovation within the tradition which the network finds itself constituted by. it is nearly a case of a new cogito: i emerge in the network therefore i am.

Posted 5/7/2002 05:48:12 PM
the messy realities of actual communities in encounter with the other (divine and human) from where they stand at the moment -- this must be rediscovered and embraced. breaking the ever forming molds of ecclesiastic propriety with words and lives of mad beauty, biting wit and parabolic confusion/clarity. all else is too bold a pretense.

Posted 5/7/2002 05:44:14 PM
o man, take care!
what does the deep midnight declare?
"i was asleep --
from a deep dream i woke and swear:
the world is deep,
deeper than day had been aware.
deep is its woe;
joy -- deeper yet than agony.
woe implores: go!
joy wants eternity,
wants deep, deep eternity."

thus spake zarathustra, book 4, 12

Posted 5/7/2002 08:58:50 AM

do you know where i can score some sucrose?
Sugar pills fight depression - ... a higher percentage of depressed patients get better on placebos today than 20 years ago.... a trial last month... compared the herbal remedy St. John’s wort against Zoloft. St. John’s wort fully cured 24 percent of the depressed people who received it, and Zoloft cured 25 percent — but the placebo fully cured 32 percent.

Posted 5/6/2002 10:26:24 AM
Take my hand
Break my stride
Make me smile
For everytime I've cried

Hold my heart
In the palm of your hand
Don't listen to it breakin'
Just listen to the band

Do you wanna ride in my car
Its parked out on the street
Or just stay with me a while
Before I fall asleep
Take these tears
Wash your skin
I'm havin' trouble breathin'
Since you walked in

My hands are tied
My head is reelin'
My eyes have cried
A million tears
From wishin' you were here

All my life
I've welcomed pain
I've made up more excuses
To bring it back again

Now I'm here
And I'll drink to the shame
I'll drink to the madness
That made me this way

-Kasey Chambers

Posted 5/6/2002 10:24:45 AM

A million roads, a million fears
A million suns, ten million years of uncertainty
I could speak a million lies, a million songs,
A million rights, a million wrongs in this balance of time
But if there was a single truth, a single light
A single thought, a singular touch of grace
Then following this single point, this single flame,
The single haunted memory of your face

I still love you
I still want you
A thousand times the mysteries unfold themselves
Like galaxies in my head

I may be numberless, I may be innocent
I may know many things, I may be ignorant
Or I could ride with kings and conquer many lands
Or win this world at cards and let it slip my hands
I could be cannon food, destroyed a thousand times
Reborn as fortune's child to judge another's crimes
Or wear this pilgrim's cloak, or be a common thief
I've kept this single faith, I have but one belief

I still love you
I still want you
A thousand times the mysteries unfold themselves
Like galaxies in my head
On and on the mysteries unwind themselves
Eternities still unsaid
'Til you love me

-Sting

Posted 5/5/2002 03:18:44 PM
(a gift expiring with each breath,
replenished again and again in the circle of receiving and giving,
driven on with the childlike passion that unceasingly forgives,
that hopes with expectations of the impossible,
that embodies an ethic of love that knows not save the other.)

Posted 5/5/2002 03:02:13 PM

possession is an inadequate modality of relationship.
relationship is an ongoing gift that must be given and received to be anything.

Posted 5/5/2002 01:55:46 PM

our life is a story that is always already being told. outside of our capacity to defer, cover, repress--every detail of our being speaks forth its part in the story of us.

Posted 5/5/2002 01:53:10 PM
weekend update

ahh, recovering from a day of medieval hilarity, sunburn and 14+ hours in a kilt... saturday was my first renaissance faire experience. one of those things you miss growing up outside of the USA. lot's of fun.

after the faire a group of us went to zu bar for a recording industry party. one of our group from axxess works for one of the major labels and needed to make an appearance for vocational advancement reasons. we showed up on lower greenville in our faire outfits and somehow it seemed totally right. everyone around us was wearing the nuyuppie weekend uniform. the club itself was tre cul. we were in the back in a dim room with a private house dj and private bar. the room was laid out with people in mind. a long (20+ feet) couch L'ed one corner of the room. there were a few small tables and lots of pillows. the atmosphere, the people, the helium and the tanqueray made for a great time.