I don’t often talk about donating to organizations (maybe I do in your opinion), and I’m not suggesting that here. We currently live in a world that creates problems, and then creates organizations and campaigns to fix those problems. It seems a bit backwards to me.
About one year ago I decided to stop eating chocolate, at least chocolate I wasn’t sure was ‘fair trade’ (or if I found it in a dumpster). I went the majority of the year without eating chocolate period, which wasn’t too difficult. The reason …

A collection of links I found interesting this week:

Those ‘Educational’ Toys aren’t what they say they are.
Greg Boyd is an Anarchist. Go Greg! [via]
Shaun talks about Dollar (Creflo that is) and Kanakuk.
You might be interested in reading about Harlem Children’s Zone Project.
No Impact Man tackles The Problem with Air Travel
And Today’s Quote [via]:

A new survey of U.S. adults who don’t go to church, even on holidays,
finds 72% say “God, a higher or supreme being, actually exists.” But
just as many (72%) also say the church is “full of hypocrites.” -USA Today

Top 10 List of Most Fashionable Racial Trends of 2007

I’ve been talking about the house and budgeting a bit and I wanted to get into some discussion about budgeting and housing. This will be more about how I ‘think’ about it it terms of my budget more then anything, you’ll find it will kind of pan out the same. I’m not doing anything magical, but I still think the discussion is important.
I’ve mentioned before that in our month to month budget we’ve allotted $400 to cover rent and all utilities (internet, phone, gas, electricity). In the past we’ve lived …

You should Precycle

I’d like to know your opinion of this billboard…

Occasionally, I have the opportunity through some affiliate sites, to review different blogs and websites. This means I in no way am supporting or advocating for a particular site, I’m simply being paid to review that site, both positive and negative.
The following is a paid review:
Before I even post the name and link of the site I’m reviewing, I need to issue a warning. My first opinion on the review is that the picture on the header of the site is troublesome. It’s a portrait shot of a women …

Again, no set cohesive theme, but I had a lot of short snippets I thought I’d share, that you might find interesting. I’ll try and give a brief description of each. (the numbers in parenthesis are about how long each clip is. i.e. 1:00 is one minute)
“Kill’em with Kindness”, a short photo montage with some sermon words about in the background (3:45) (ht Gavin)

The Year of Living Biblically- a short video about AJ Jacobs who tried to live following all the rules of the Bible for a year (3:24)

Interesting PSA …