The Clayton iHouse

This may be the coolest thing I've ever seen in the realm of affordable housing - to say nothing of it being manufactured housing as well:

the Clayton iHouse

There's also a good article about it on Yahoo! News and a blog devoted to it as well. And guess who thinks it's such a good idea that he bought the parent company ? Warren Buffet.

I want one out in the Hill Country on the West side of Austin :)

You May Live in Texas If...

Here is what Jeff Foxworthy has to say about folks from Texas . . .

• If you find 60 degrees "a little chilly," you may live in Texas.
  
• If the speed limit on the highway is 55 mph -- you're going 80 and everybody is passing you, you may live in Texas.
  
• If "Vacation" means going anywhere south of Dallas for the weekend, you may live in Texas
  
• If you carry jumper cables in your car and your wife knows how to use them, you may live in Texas.
  
• If you measure distance in hours, you may live in Texas.
  
• If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you may live in Texas.
  
• If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you may live in Texas.
  
• If you install security lights on your house and garage, but leave both unlocked, you may live in Texas.
  
• If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you may live in Texas.
  
• If someone in a Lowe's store offers you assistance and they don't work there, you may live in Texas.
  
• If you actually understand these jokes and forward them to all your Texas friends & others, you definitely live in Texas.
  

QotD for 4 May, 2009

I submit to you that cynics are critical to society's function. You see, cynics rarely start wars, we leave that to religion. Cynics end wars. Cynics are all around you, challenging society, the church and the powers that be. Cynics do what idealists talk about doing. --- Trevor Buvyer

Shamelessly stolen from the delightful Stephanie Hill Drury. Her blog Stuff Christian Culture Likes is endlessly amusing and insightful.

QotD for 30 Apr., 2009

We have enough youth. We need a fountain of smart. --- seen on a t-shirt at ThinkGeek

GMail Guide

PC Magazine has a handy guide to Google's GMail up on their site. See An Unofficial User's Guide to Gmail for a good place to get started with this popular, eternally in Beta, service.

Wallis and a Christian Mistake

The Religious Right was a Christian mistake. It was a movement that sought to implement a “Christian agenda” by tying the faithful to one political option—the right-wing of the Republican Party. The politicizing of faith in such a partisan way is always a theological mistake. But the rapid decline of the Religious Right now offers us a new opportunity to re-think the role of faith in American public life. ---Jim Wallis, in his Newsweek blog A Christian Nation

Why I Hate U2

Wanna know why I hate U2 ? No, it's not because I think Bono is a bit pretentious ;) No, it's not the :: shudder :: U2charist thing.

It's garbage like this that really gets to me...