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Some People have Crazy Ideas!

This video really gets good around minute six.

The Future of the Automobile

A Glimpse of the Future from Microsoft

Thanks to Sharkride for pointing this out.

Ear Candy

What does the Future Hold?

Kevin Kelly has been the executive editor of Wired. This is a talk that he gave at the Q conference on the next 1,000 years of Christianity. Below is a talk he gave at TED talks about the next 5,000 days of the internet. Both, are insightful and I think that they go well together.

Illuminating!

Solar Balloon Technology

I love to see innovation. Check out this new solar balloon, which has the potential to create 400 times the energy of a normal solar cell.

Pretty Sweet Technology from Microsoft Labs

Visit Geek.com to find out more

Time Travel

I just used the oldest Index that Google search has saved and stumbled upon the first website that Lori and I ever put up for our ministry. I did not know that this site still existed. Not only is it still there, but you can still take the quiz that Lori designed for it (she had to design it from scratch, because there were not any quiz generators at that time). Seeing this makes me realize how much web technology has jumped in the past 7 years. It also makes me wonder what the next 7 will bring.

Direct Video Manipulation

This is crazy cool!

Clay Shirky: Institutions vs. collaboration

As you watch this think about how it relates to the church as an institution.

Unlimited Sustain

I am always intrigued by the latest guitar technology.

Pursuing God in a Technological Age

I have been reading AW Tozer's The Pursuit of God this week. I have been on more than one occasion impressed by the depth with which he writes and even though this book was first published in 1949 I am totally amazed at it's relevance for today. I want to share a quote:

"The idea of cultivation and excercise, so dear to the saints of old, has now no place in our total religious picture. It is too slow, too common. We now demand glamour and fast-flowing dramatic action. A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals. We have been trying to apply machine-age methods to our relations with God. We read our chapter, have our short devotions and rush away, hoping to make up for our deep inward bankruptcy by attending another gospel meeting or listening to another thrilling story told by a religious adventurer lately returned from afar.

The tragic results of this spirit are all about us: shallow lives, hollow religious philosophies, the preponderance of the element of fun in gospel meetings, the glorification of men, trust in religious externalities, quasi-religious fellowships, salesmanship methods, the mistaking of dynamic personality for the power of the Spirit. These and such as these are the symptoms of an evil disease, a deep and serious malady of the soul." (p. 65)

Nerve-tapping Neckband

This neckband will allow people to speak without talking. It also has possibilities for doing research through silent communication. It is freaky, weird, and cool all at the same time as I begin to grasp some of the possibilities.

Sweet way to view Photos!

I just downloaded this from Cooliris. It's a program for viewing online photos. It is pretty cool, it reminds me of the way you can view photos in Leopard, but you can do it online (an you can use it for a PC as well).

Crazy!!!

The "Luke" (Skywalker) Arm

I am always on the lookout for new instruments!

This Robot Guitar is Sick