Ant made this. It's his very own creation and looks quite like a teenage posture-destroying, long-legged bird creature from millions and millions of years ago. Dude, you'll have to come back and make another!

Hey all ya happy people! As previously posted, there's a great new indie game out called World of Goo. It's fun, it's quirky, and a large part of that fun is created by the great soundtrack. And now, that soundtrack is available for download! And best of all, it's free!

Get it here.

I thoroughly enjoyed it while playing the game. Hopefully it's as good thru iTunes.

I was always a little concerned in elementary school that the library was called the "media center." It's like the grown-ups didn't know how to properly label the rooms in the school. The library was a fun place to go listen to our tall, eye-fluttering librarian expound on the many nuggets of wisdom to be found in children's books at the time, while we all sprawled leisurely around the Inca-inspired reading pit.

Now, years and many dollars later, I come to find out that there are other resources -- media, if you will -- that are found in the library. And they are found in abundance! Did you know that the public library will RENT you computer games?! Haha, this was a life-changing revelation for me about 2 weeks ago, when I discovered Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization sitting on the shelf -- this game that had been out for a matter of months was sitting there, waiting for me to take it home and enjoy it for the next 3 weeks. Well, I did just that. I was also sure not to leave the library without querying the digital dewey decimal system to compile a list of future conquests. I think I'll make it a point to visit the library, er media center, more often.

Pogs are just a funny thing that come up in conversations between April and I. It's almost like we have a secret stash of milk-caps stashed away in our closet, just waiting to bring them out, let the slammers fly, and play for keeps.

Whatever happened to pogs? Apparently, they disappear amidst some controversy... It's funny how many of fads there were/are that are in and then out w/in the same year. I mean, totally! Go, 90s! Hehe, this is funny -- from Wikipedia:

"In the UK Pogs were banned for a number of reasons mainly the arguments between children as well as the injuries children sustained. Slammers would be thrown aggressively causing them to travel long distances as well as bouncing off objects or walls, resulting in injury. This became more of an issue when using metal slammers."

If anyone has a few pogs around, especially those awesome ones with the cool saw blade-cut edges, we're ready for the ultimate pog tournament at our house! But remember, we always play for keeps, so no cryin'.

This is just such a great example of how the church is expanding and using technology at an accelerating pace to connect with the techie generations. I think it is wonderful. I think it is inspired. And I think it will help and support a wider and wider mesh of young people and others who will find and experience the full gospel of Jesus Christ in whole new ways.

I love listening to Elder Holland! His voice just rings of gospel truth.

See the whole website here.

Here's her worshipfulness, herself:

Lest anyone think me too cool for my britches for having created such a masterpiece, I'll just say now that Corel Painter Essentials helped me out... It's called photo painting. You can get a photo, put it behind your canvas and essentially trace it. It helps with color too. Where your brush starts, that's the color that that stroke is. In this case, it's actually colored pencil with oil pastel for the background.

And for those of you that don't get the vague reference to a Star Wars parody, check this out.