The struggle when success and creativity collide.

My friend Preston sent me this video from a creative conference with Elizabeth Gilbert speaking. If you’ve ever batteled the creativity monster, then, this is for you.

How long have ya’ll been holding out on me?

On occasion, I will be forced to drive past the Krispy Kreme doughnuts downtown next to Baptist Hospital. Today, the hot and fresh doughnut sign was lit up. This forced a decision that I have not regretted…. yet.

While in the drive-thru, I stumbled upon this:

What mad genius has devised such a deadly combination of sugar? I have heard of other strange mutated doughnut concoctions, but none actually sanctioned by the Krispy themselves. So here is the question:

iPhone, it’s all about to change.

I am blown away by the extreme usefulness of the new phone from Google and T-Mobile. Check it out.

Sarah Palin at Church

A friend of mine, (and maybe yours) AnnieLaurie Walters sent me this link.

Her words:

You may have seen this already but I thought you would be interested
in watching the video of Sarah Palin speaking to her home church in
Alaska about her faith.  She was baptized in this church at the age of
12.  Keep in mind, this speech was delivered in June of this year,
months before she was looking good for the nomination.

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1766638341

This is legit, here is the link to the church website where they say
they had to take the video down after she became the VP candidate for
McCain http://www.wasillaag.net/

Someone must have grabbed it and added it to brightcove so that the
rest of us can enjoy it today.

Want good grades? Go to Church.

thanks to Bethany Hader for this article.
from: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,409121,00.html

FOXNEWS.COM HOME > SCITECH
Church Attendance Boosts Student GPAs
Friday, August 22, 2008
By Robert Roy Britt

If you want to boost your teenager’s grade point average, take the kid to church. Or, a new study suggests, find some similar social activity to involve them in.

Researchers found that church attendance has as much effect on a teen’s GPA as whether the parents earned a college degree. Students in grades 7 to 12 who went to church weekly also had lower dropout rates and felt more a part of their schools. On average, students whose parents received a four-year college degree average a GPA 0.12 higher than those whose parents completed only high school.

The Saddleback Civil Forums

I know many of you are still attempting to discern a presidential choice to make for the upcoming elections. I’ve heard several postive comments about the Saddleback Forum and wanted to make them available in one place for us to watch.

I hope you’ll take the time.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

$600k offering? No Thanks.

How bout this one- found it on the Drudge Report.

Church Rejects Donation from Lottery Winner
Posted By: Ryan Duffy     19 hrs ago

ORANGE PARK, FL — After Robert Powell hit the Florida Lottery jackpot last month and took home more than $6 million, he thought of his church.

And he offered to drop his tithe, around $600,000, in the collection plate of First Baptist Orange Park.

But the church and Pastor David Tarkington politely declined and told Powell they will not accept the lottery winnings.

Many churches do not approve of the lottery and gambling but on the other hand Pastor Dr. Lorenzo Hall of the El-Beth-El Divine Holiness Church says $600,000 can do a lot of good.

www.jingproject.com

Every once in a while my dad will send me a link. Like any good son, I am sceptical. I should learn.

This is AWESOME.

slide on over to http://www.jingproject.com/

Trust me. You’ll be glad you did.

I was able to capture this image from my desktop, make an arrow, write text, and put a box around it. and then capture it to my computer for your veiwing pleasure.

Even better- you can capture video of you doing whatever you want on your computer and send your friend a link, showing them the video. In other words, you know that person that you have to walk them through everything on the phone for hours on end? Send them this!!!!

I can hear the collective cheering from around the internet.

Thanks Dad.

Anyone else ever heard of cuil.com?

From my intern, Kevin Johnson’s blog: http://falloutofline.wordpress.com/

I found it too funny to let go. Hope all is well.

for those of you who don’t know yet, the supposed google-killer cuil.com has pretty much died itself.  it’s been called out on its lackluster approach to pulling up the most relevant information on the internet.  their servers crashed yesterday because they couldn’t handle all the visitors.  but here’s the deal:  i thought the front page looked pretty wicked awesome:

i thought the black and blue was pretty sweet.  and if you think about it, it probably saved some laptop battery power! not much backlight needed for that page.  go green by going black.  what a concept.  but yeah, when i was discussing cuil.com with my coworkers, Jay asked the question, “I wonder with the word cuil stands for?”  Within 30 seconds, Lindsey replied, “it’s an old irish word for knowledge.”  when asked how she came up with that, she quickly explained, “i googled it.”

eucharist smuggler

Thanks to Russell Hilton for the article…

Last Edited: Monday, 07 Jul 2008, 11:38 PM EDT 
Created: Monday, 07 Jul 2008, 11:36 PM EDT 

Student Who Took Religious Icon Getting Death Threats  
By Cheryl Getuiza
FOX 35 NEWS

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35, Orlando) –A UCF student claims he’s getting death threats for messing with something sacred.

Webster Cook says he smuggled a Eucharist, a small bread wafer that to Catholics symbolic of the Body of Christ after a priest blesses it, out of mass, didn’t eat it as he was supposed to do, but instead walked with it. Catholics worldwide became furious.