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23rd
JAN
Library of Congress Photo Collection at Flickr
Posted by Jonathan | Filed under Culture, Gallery, Photos, Websites
Library of Congress Blog » My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven (Library of Congress)
The Library of Congress has partnered with Flickr to pilot a LOC Gallery of uncopyrighted photos that have been collected through the ages. They currently are piloting a 1910’s set with 1500 photos, and a 1930’s-40′ in color set with 1615 photos. Just in these two collections there are some amazing photos.
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19th
JAN
Watch TV Online with Fancast
Posted by Jonathan | Filed under Culture, TV, Video, Websites
Back on November 17th, I told you about watching network television over the internet through the various network television websites. Well now you can go to one location for not only network tv, but for cable tv as well.
Comcast Cable recently put Fancast beta online, not only for their subscribers, but for anyone browsing the internet. According to Comcast Interactive Media (CIM)
“Fancast is the first online destination that enables users to watch, manage and find entertainment content wherever it is available – on Fancast, on television, online on DVD or in theaters. On Fancast, users can view an expanding library of free full episodes and clips from top networks and movie partners, find the content they are looking for across multiple platforms and create a personalized entertainment experience.”
5th
JAN
American Gladiators
Posted by Jonathan | Filed under Culture, TV
If you are a fan of outrageous television you will be excited to learn that NBC is reviving their American Gladiator series. American Gladiators originally aired from 1989-96 and featured muscle bulging gladiators named Nitro, Malibu, Zap, Sunny, Lace, and Gemini squaring off against firefighters, police officers, ex-millitary and average Joe’s that think they can best the gladiators in physical events. Here’s the intro to the retired series:
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5th
The Gratification of a Resolution
Posted by Jonathan | Filed under Culture
Well, I’m only 5 days late to say Happy New Years to everyone. The holidays have been a whirlwind of events with 3 different Christmas celebrations, a visit from my Dad to meet his grandson for the first time, a New Years party and a new job. It’s been an exciting 2 weeks.
Now that the new year is upon us it’s time for everyone to make their resolutions for change. Resolutions have become a joke in our American culture. Instead of a list of goals we wish to achieve, the majority of people see them as a list of the first things to fail on in the new year. I think this view of resolutions is based on many factors, but on in particular is our view that we have to achieve these goals immediately. Our society wants instant gratification in whatever it does and resolutions are now different.
Tags: Culture, New Year, Resolutions
17th
NOV
Net…(work) TV
Posted by Jonathan | Filed under Culture, Websites
This September, Nikki and I started watching NBC’s “The Office” starting with season 1 which we rented from Netflix. We zipped through the first 3 seasons and were left wanting…. You see we don’t have a tv to watch the new episodes as they air. So all we had was the anticipation of season 4 on dvd in 1 year. However, the idea popped into my head that maybe in our new fangled age of the internet maybe they aired the episodes online. I was in luck. NBC Video Rewind allows fans watch most of their shows repeatedly online using a flash player. And without most of the annoying advertisements. They do typically advertise one product per episode during the regularly scheduled break. It’s typically 30 secs and can be muted. You can also resize the player inside your browser to normal, large or full screen. However, the full screen option typically locks up my entire system and forces me to close my browser and reload the page.
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- There is More to the Secret by Ed Gungor
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Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church: Understanding a Movement and Its Implications by D. A. Carson
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Lord, Teach Me to Study the Bible in 28 Days by Kay Arthur
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