Trust and...

these are more entries to Post Secret

you can find a link to the site on the left but be forewarned the images and ideas expressed are not tame. None the less I think this site provides an interesting commentary on the shape of our world.

Where on Earth is Waldo, (Soon to Be) the Google Maps Version

 

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the Christmas Picto-RANT

(As usual the pictures are supposed to represent a word or concept - at times admittedly it is a stretch. In many places clicking on the pictures leads you to a related story...)
It's that

again. Time to let you know what I am

about.
A Few Suggestions to Help You Observe Christmas To It's Fullest

(and prepare for a good new year)

#1.

Make sure you give everyone on your list a

failing to do so could prove costly.

(failing to include all the appropriate people on the Christmas photo could evidently prove to be somewhat incendiary)

#2

Make sure you at all the right places. Especially, visit After all Wal-Mart is the beach where the war on Christmas won it's first big battle.

#3
No need to worry about how much

or you ingest before you climb behind the because
won't be organizing too many (full story)

#4
You might want to consider an

to throw in as a stuffer for your favorite minority or disenfrachised person(s). After it seem in these days. Made popular by...and and most recently...

---it's all the rage. (the 'hot' Christmas item this year) Yeah I know you thought the "it" gift was the

#5

Finally some last minute gift suggestions for all those tough people on your list...

for the mini-golfer who is tired of the worldly influence of the typical windmills and loop-de-loops...

and you may as well throw in a sleeve of...

and it not just important for the teenagers in your life to listen to the right music - it pretty much should be pumping out of one these

how about for the retirees on your list who are looking for that special 'inspired' get-away. The Pickle is proud to present:

TOP TEN CHRISTIAN DESTINATIONS

of course there is always that one person on your list that seems to have everything. Well we even have a suggestion for that person(s)...

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Don't worry too much Christmas is still pretty

-y

On a more serious

I've been wondering about

Jesus' birthday to another day of the year.
It's not that I think that Jesus is embarrassed about his age.

It's just so little about Christmas is really about Jesus.

Giving each other

is great and even a wholesome Godly activity that exercises kindness.
I just wonder how disturbed the God incarnate would be about how, the gathering around the

with all its excesses has become central to our celebration of his

Maybe Jesus wouldn't mind a quieter where the celebrations would see Jesus' identifying with the in need around them.

You know we could become mini-Christs and who knows what would happen

Hey Jesus... party on man!

check out last year's pictogram

Emotions R Us

Just heard this website plugged on the CBC noon hour show here.
http://www.wefeelfine.org/
Here's the basic gist of the thing. From what I know this website takes the emotional pulse of the blogging world and fits it into a pretty powerful database. I'm just startingto explore this thing but apparently you can search specific locations and see what the emotional barometer is reading. You can also develop an emotional forecast of sorts. the iterface is funky too becuase it is set up (and intended as an art project of sorts)
anyhow I'll keep playing around on it over lunch here (actually lunch happens after one oclock for me since I am usually at the schools till then) and let you know what I find...
Here's a quote from the websites mission:

Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human
feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches
the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel"
and "I am feeling". When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence,
up to the period, and identifies the "feeling" expressed in that sentence (e.g.
sad, happy, depressed, etc.). Because blogs are structured in largely standard
ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be
extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions
at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved.
The
result is a database of several million human feelings, increasing by 15,000 -
20,000 new feelings per day. Using a series of playful interfaces, the feelings
can be searched and sorted across a number of demographic slices, offering
responses to specific questions like: do Europeans feel sad more often than
Americans? Do women feel fat more often than men? Does rainy weather affect how
we feel? What are the most representative feelings of female New Yorkers in
their 20s? What do people feel right now in Baghdad? What were people feeling on
Valentine's Day? Which are the happiest cities in the world? The saddest? And so
on.