Some college students are putting together a life size Super Mario Bros game.  There's a video of their prototype on the site.

Joe Bageant is making me want to move to Belize again, damn him.  And where can I get some of those bitters?  Joe, I'm officially nominating you to organize the emigration for the rest of us.

Peacebang points us to Matt Stone's Eclectic Itchings, an "emerging spirituality" blog with several cool icon collections, including my two new favorite Jesii, Jesulope and Alien Jesus. Good content too.  A generously ecumenical take on spirituality — Christianity, paganism, Judaism, Buddhism and more — that doesn't get bogged down into a gooey New Age melting pot.

He also keeps a second blog on meditation, Ekstasis, which is just as spiritually diverse.  His critique of Zen meditation reminds me of conversations with my Buddhist friend kermit_is.

Is his take on spirituality one that could mesh with the univeralism that Atlanta Unitarian wrote about, a universalism of radical welcome to all?

Last week our co-pays at the pharmacy totalled $85, for prescriptions valued at just under $1000.  How are any of us sick people supposed to survive without insurance?  How do folks make it?

Ever since the nytimes.com redesign launched, I’ve had trouble getting pages to load. Here’s the exact scenario: I click on a story off the RSS feed in my toolbar. Usually it will load. But any subsequent pages I click on from inside the site do not. I suspect it’s the Adblock extension that’s doing that, but I’m hesitant to go without that. Anyone else having this problem?

I recently got a burr in my saddle to write a best selling book on Leadership. This is a really good idea, especially since I happen to be a Leader myself.

"How do I know if I am a Leader?" you may ask. If you have to ask, then you are not a Leader. Real Leaders™ already know they are Leaders, see? No, of course not. You wouldn't understand because you're not a Leader.

People not understanding is a big problem for Leaders. But that's why we're the Leaders and they're not. Leaders understand. They understand because they lead. That's what Leaders do, see? Oh, of course you don't.

Because people don't understand anything, we Leaders have to tell them when they're wrong. This is important because it reminds people why we're the Leaders and they're not. Because they don't understand, they forget that we're the Leaders. You must constantly remind them so they will remember their wrongness. Click to continue reading “How to be a leader”