3-D Traffic Stopper
If you’re reading this blog in Canada, you may have already been part of a new road-going experiment. But for the rest of you, let me set up a scenario: You’re tooling along in your aging family sedan, a bit late and pushing the speed limits, when out of nowhere a little girl darts in […]
It’s a Girl Thing
It seems everywhere you look nowadays there’s a new story about girls going wild. And I’m not talking about spring-break videos. I’m referring to young girls unleashing rage-filled rants or Fight Club-style beat-downs. Is there something in the water, or what? Now, I guess I ought to quickly backtrack to add that I’m not being […]
Fame Monsters All
I remember seeing an ABC report with John Stossel a while back that looked at America’s growing obsession with fame. They were interviewing people in a wintry Times Square who had stripped down to bathing suits and body-painted themselves in various colors for an audition to play, of all things, M&M’s candies. “Everybody wants to […]
Keep It Short, Pastor
I just read about a guy on a quest that seems almost as daunting as the rich man’s challenge to thread a needle with his camel. Chris Juby, a worship director at King’s Church in the northern English city of Durham, has determined that he will summarize the Bible in a series of daily tweets—one […]
The Age of Technology
The New York Times recently posted an article about mothers and technology, using a study from Parenting magazine and a woman’s social media Web site called BlogHer. The moms surveyed said that new tech could be a good thing for their families, even though it demanded more effort to keep up with the latest advances […]
The Eyes of Facebook Are Upon You
It looks like there’s another way that Facebook is serving mankind: By helping fix traffic problems in India. Hey, don’t underestimate the little social network that could. It all started when overburdened police officers in New Delhi started a Facebook page to let the public friend-up and give them suggestions on how the endlessly snarled […]
If You Can’t Text Something Positive …
According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 75% of all U.S. teens have a cell phone. When you drop the age to 12 years old, it’s still a whopping 58% with a ring-tone piping out of their pocket. 90% of all those kids are texting each other at any given moment—to a tally […]
Park Well, My Brother
NEW TECH ALERT—woo-woo-woo In case you haven’t heard, Google has created a new Android app for all you frustrated city folk who endlessly round the block looking for someplace to jam your ride. It’s called “Open Spot.” With it you can open a little map of your area decorated with bubble markers that indicate an […]
Your Tweet is My Command
Did you hear about David Perez and his recent adventure? If not, let me fill you in. This 29-year-old advertising guy wanted to attend a weeklong fete at the Cannes Lion’s International Advertising Festival in France. (Yeah, I had no idea that advertising guys threw big shindigs in France, either. But there it is.) Anyway, […]
The Twilight of Addiction
This is the age of addiction. Think about it. People are pointing to new addictions just about every day. The Internet, now, there’s a real life-stealer. Reality TV shows, wow, just can’t get enough of those dancing stars of yesteryear. Movies. Music. iPads. Videogames. Seems that everybody is up-ending their lives to mainline something or […]