Faraway, So Close

It’s Sue’s birthday today. So please wish her a happy birthday (suenns at gmail dot com) and send her lots of money because her husband’s been living off her income all year and spent it all on video games and beer.
Seriously though - I love my wife and love the amazing person she is [...]

This email from a friend (who had no idea of my involvement or lack thereof with the website in question) made my week:
“Why does Forest Grove’s website kinda suck now? What is this annoying “I bought my website at monstertemplates.com” flash menu doing on here?”
I offer no further comment because of something someone told [...]

Immersion is a project by a New York Times photographer showing how focused kids can be while playing video games. (Watch the video here) Basically he has a video camera mounted behind/in the screen that the kids are playing the games on so you’re staring right at them staring at you playing the [...]

Something that I’ve been working on with a couple friends is a website called About This Mac, found at www.aboutthismac.com. The three of us are Mac nerds who get the odd *cough* Mac related question from friends/family. We thought we might as well put the answers we’re giving out there on the internet [...]

A good read for any parent worried/frustrated about their child not keeping up with their friend’s kid, (and especially if you’re worried (why?) that you’re child isn’t watching enough TV or getting enough stimulation) from The New Yorker:
A third development that pushed people into overparenting, Marano and others believe, is the “brain plasticity” research published [...]

From whatilearnd.com’s entry on what’s in her yoghurt after hearing about Burt’s Bees ‘Natural Vs’ ad campaign:
Yoplait Strawberry Contains: cultured pasteurized grade A low fat milk, sugar, strawberries, modified corn starch, high fructose corn syrup, nonfat milk, kosher gelatin, citric acid, tricalcium phosphate, natural flavor, pectin, colored with carmines, vitamin A acetate, vitamin D3.
She then [...]

Update: Looks like the video was pulled. Just due to copyright issues, not anything political or anything to get you conspiracy theorists going.
It’s so bizarre to think that there are people like this, so disconnected from reality.
It’s not exclusive to the Republicans, Democrats have their crazies. Nor is it [...]

Here’s a few random tshirts from http://www.bustedtees.com that I found funny/interesting/etc. (aka avoiding working on stuff I should be).
The last one is really only for hardcore fans of a certain tv show - any guesses?

Incredibly (scary?) realistic rendering of a dance off between McCain and Obama. You need to watch at least until the face off to appreciate how well done this is:

Direct link