the blog of ben davidson
Comparison of how people around the globe spend their discretionary income. Looks like Canadians love their household goods and prefer to get outside, rather then pay for free recreation.
What Your Global Neighbors Are Buying - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com
Hands down the best Jewish Reggae Rock I have ever heard.
Ask Hashem for mercy and he’ll throw you a rope
You’re looking for help from God you say he couldn’t be found
Searching up to the sky and looking beneath the ground
Like a King without his Crown
Follow the link and check out the video, pure genius. Thanks Rielly.
It only took me a few months but I figured out how I broke my ability to add new posts to my blog. I guess this puts the pressure back on to write something…
May it come to pass: “For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism… That is one option. Or, at this moment, in this election, we can come together and say, ‘Not this time.’” - Barack Obama (via Daring Fireball, view the text or the video)
Oh man, that sucks: “As humiliating as it sounds, let me repeat: the MacBook Air is so thin that it got tossed out with the newspapers. Yes, it’s still possible the gizmo may have been stolen. Or it may be somewhere jammed into an obscure crevice in my apartment. For now, though, my review unit lays claim to being the first MacBook Air to be discarded by mistake. But, I will wager, not the last.” From Newsweek
Interesting comment’s on e~mergent’s Kiwi’s blog in response to the following:
In summary, “for all you’ve done” is a surprisingly broad song theologically. Christians often limit what Jesus does to the cross. Yet this song names Jesus, for all you’ve done as including creation, incarnation, life, resurrection and ascension. e~mergent kiwi: the theology of Hillsong
Perfect night predicted for lunar eclipse:
“The moon is to appear high in the southern sky when the Earth’s shadow begins to travel across the lunar surface from left to right at 8:42p.m. Total eclipse is to last from 10p.m. to 10:51p.m… Unlike a solar eclipse, no special eye protection is necessary to watch the event, caused when the Earth comes between the sun and the moon.”
Hurry it’s only five minutes away!
The Forest Stewardship Council is a not-for-profit organization that exists to help establish sustainable forestry management practices. By purchasing products that are FSC certified we are ensuring that the wood used in the product was harvested in a sustainable manner. Look for there logo next time you buy something made from wood.
DoBeDo ToDo Widget. A genuinely great to-do manager that works with iCal. This is genuinely great because I am genuinely in need of some serious help shrinking my to-do list.
After reading a few books on Mount Everest and watching a couple of great documentaries Sir Edmund had had become quite the hero to me. Compared to the equipment that modern climbers and how difficult they still find it to climb Everest, it is almost unthinkable that Hillary and Norgay were able to accomplish what they did. Mount Everest climber Sir Edmund Hillary dead at 88 [Via CBC | World News.]
