Actually these are trackbacks, plus they were very popular topics.
The first is Bart Barber and the topic of the [then upcoming] Southern Baptist presidential election
The other is Jarrod Morris (on the same day he was linked by flowerdust.net) and the topic of christians and drinking. Something everyone has an opinion about.
And the places where it bottoms out are Sundays. Apparently no one reads blogs on Sundays.
Whether this photo is a tornado or not, it's pretty amazing. Better yet. Click here for a bunch of interesting pictures of the flood The best fail I saw this week - This has to be a joke
I think I said this a while ago - via Digg
Woman dies in front of TV, not found for 42 years - via Digg
Why is Dana not at work tonight?
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Feedbags = funny
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I left this comment in this blog earlier today. So I'll ask my readers to answer it.
Here’s a question no one has ever answered satisfactorily for me. -Why does a Christian want to drink a beer?- If you know it’s wrong to get drunk and you don’t need a little alcohol to stay dysentery free, then why?
I do not want a discussion about legalism and christian freedom in my comments. I simply want an answer to this question, "What advantage do you get from drinking?" Why do it?
I get the idea from all the people who argue that it's ok that the main reason that they want to drink socially is because they were taught that it is wrong. It is pure rebellion. In fact, the best reason I've ever gotten from anybody when I asked this question in person is that it is fun. Also I'm probably not going to buy the argument that it is delicious. Nobody lives the taste of beer the first time, and most of us are not in the habit of drinking stuff we think is nasty until it starts tasting good.
I am conceeding that the Bible doesn't say "thou shall not consume alcohol" and that it does say "be not drunk with wine." Let's not have a discussion of whether or not it is okay. I want to know; why drink at all? Especially since there's no clear line between sober and drunk.
Firefox 3 releases today and the mozilla folks hope to set a new record for downloads in one day. It's supposed to be awesome and you know you've always wanted to see the internet without IE (although IE only accounts for 42% of the visitors to my church website.) So what are you waiting for...go get firefox now
Be ready for a slow download. Setting a record takes a lot of bandwidth. Also, sooner or later all your extensions will be updated, they will work again. Don't worry.
I have long said that I have only 1 material goal in my life - visit and do something meaningful (experience the people or geography) in all 50 states - but I have recently seen some lists like this on different blogs, so I decided to make me a list of 100 things to do before I die. Most of them are just things it would be nice to do. But some of them I take seriously and actually work for. I’ll try to put the important ones at the top of the list, but outside of the top 10 they are pretty much just random.
Feel free to comment on my list, or put your own top 10 list in the comments.
44. Win my fantasy football league again (Done 2009)
43. See the northern lights
42. Memorize the book of James
41. See one of my youth group alumni become a career missionary
40. Go on a foreign mission trip (to the third world)
39. Travel somewhere by train
38. Eat frog legs that I gigged myself. (I’ve done this many times but not in over 5 years)
37. See a World Series game
36. Earn a ThM (only because it’ll probably be a necessary step toward my PhD)
35. Get a passport
33. Witness 52 times in 1 year
32. Teach an ESL class
31. Eat a crazy expensive meal
30. Read 24 books in a year - Done 2008
29. Beat Phil Thomas at Scrabulous - Done 8-26-08
28. Have a really great looking yard
27. Grow a 100 lb pumpkin
26. Get 100% on one song at intermediate level guitar on Rock Band
25. Fish all the open lakes on Ft. Bragg (Done 10/24/08 Last one was Smith Lake)
24. Teach on a university level (Done, Though CBC is only in candidate status for accretidation)
23. Write a book
22. Lead 10 people to Christ in one year (2 so far this year)
21. Catch 20 different species of fish (5 so far this year)
20. See a race at Daytona
19. Go on a cruise
18. Catch a 10 lb bass
17. Become scuba certified
16. Get 500 blog hits in 1 day (Done 05/14/2012)
15. Write 500 blog posts (Done, Here is post #500)
14. Write a list of 100 things to do before I die ;-)
13. Make a budget and keep it
12. See a TV show taped live
11. Visit 6 continents
10. Catch a 7 lb Bass
9. Go peacock bass fishing in the Amazon River
8. Have me some kids
7. Earn a PhD
6. Be completely debt free
5. Go 3 months without missing a single day of quiet time
4. Lose 80 lbs
3. Get married
2. Become a Certified Apologetics Instructor (Done 08/11)
1. Visit and do something meaningful in all 50 states
I was away most of the week and I wanted to do that final update on the convention so these are a day late and short. Enjoy anyway Sexism; funny? How about a train wreck?
Grandmother with a machine gun - via the ninja
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I didn’t know how to wrap up my experience at the 2008 SBC, so I decided to just make a list of stuff I am thinking. This list will be complete thoughts, but not expounded upon unless you want to hear more.
Thoughts in no particular order
...WowI’m not that popular but I saw a bunch of people I know pretty well
Here's some other stuff not necessarily convention related but related to my trip.
So this was the first day of the actual convention. I got up and was gone from Lafayette by 7:30. A wreck on the interstate and pouring rain here in the Indiana rainforest, and I was in a seat on the convention floor by 9:00. I should describe the layout of the convention here in Indy. It is about 100 rows deep in 6 sections. There are huge projection screens in front of two sections. So it is ridiculously wide and not that deep. There are practically no good seats in the entire hall. But if you park yourself in front of one of the giant screens you have a very good view. The same exact view you would get if you watched it online.
Now...on to the business of the day. The vote for SBC president. You all read my previous posts and had the opportunity to lobby me. After praying, I voted for Frank Cox. We passed the ballots to the right. And there was no question when I passed the ones in my section that Johnny Hunt got the majority of the votes in my section. There were 6 candidates and I figured that there would be a runoff, but I guess I underestimated Johnny’s popularity, . Johnny got 52% of the vote. I admire Johnny and believe he will be a good president. In case anybody is counting I am 0-2 in voting for SBC president.
First VP is Bill Henard from Porter in Lexington KY. I did vote for him. Also I voted for 2nd VP, but I left before they announced the winner. (There will be a runoff between Mulkey and Newland.) I voted for Newland from the Indianapolis church that was sued by the NFL for hosting a Super Bowl party. But Mulkey had one of the greatest nomination speeches I’ve ever heard. It was great.
In other news, I attended the Annie Armstrong banquet because our church was top in giving and per capita giving in our association. It was a very good banquet and the missionary speaker did a wonderful job. But a fire alarm went off before the end, and I was very ready to leave the room. The alarm, strobe, and voice emanating from the speakers was incredibly annoying.
Tomorrow, there will likely be no report. Read Baptist Press.
This week’s posts are going to not strictly be a summary of the Southern Baptist Convention. They will contain the summary but they will also be a bit of a travelogue of my personal adventures. If all you want is a summary I recommend one of the other SBC blogs, with the political, or tonal slant of your choice. They are all out there. Also, I'm typing these on a janky old laptop at the end of the day, so if there are extra typos and less links than usual, please ignore that. Now, without further ado, I present SBC 2008 pt.1
I got to Indianapolis on Saturday night around midnight. My brother and his wife live in Lafayette IN and I’m staying with them. So Sunday I got up and went to his church, then we spent the rest of the day just visiting and being drooled on by his giant dog. I never even considered going to the first day of the pastor’s conference. I considered Sunday as a vacation day. Monday morning I got up, got ready and headed into Indy. It is about an hour drive and I had an errand to run, so it was after 10 before I got there. Then it took me quite a while to find a parking place. By the time I made it to the convention hall and registered for the convention the last speaker of the morning was already on. I toured the exhibit hall not really stopping anywhere, just getting the lay of the land and looking for people I knew. I did go ahead and buy a new Baptist Hymnal in the convention edition for our Music Director. Otherwise I was just roaming.
I called and met my great-uncle, Don Mathis, for lunch. Then we went back for the afternoon sessions.
The afternoon included messages by Dr. Jimmy Draper, Rev. Bill Stafford, Dr. James MacDonald and a special guest. James Draper is always a good speaker, and this message on revival was no exception. He said that he was talking about something he knew nothing about. And none of us knew anything about it, because nothing like it had happened in our lifetime. I think many of us genuinely want to see a great awakening like in the days of Whitefield. I certainly do.
Bill Stafford was one of the most entertaining sermons I have ever heard. I wish I could quote all the great things he said. You just have to trust me, he was wonderful. And he said he was, “So saved it’s pitiful.”
The next scheduled speaker was sick and didn’t make it. And apparently word got out about who the guest speaker would be, because the convention hall filled. In his place, straight from practice Tony Dungy, came in. He only spoke for about 10 minutes but it is very nice to see some in the public eye who appears to be genuine in his faith. I appreciated his time.
The final speaker of the session was James MacDonald. He spoke on repentance, and the need for it. In fact he said that revival was a simple as “repent!” His message was punctuated by the fact that it pouring rain outside and thundering. He would often say “repent” and be punctuated by a loud thunder clap. It was quite a good message.
At the dinner break, I went back to Lafayette, mostly because there was a break in the rain, and I wanted to get back to my car while I had the chance, but also because the next two days will be so hectic and punctuated by a 3:30 a.m. trip to the airport.
I probably saw a dozen people I knew and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Don’t forget you can watch tomorrow and Wednesday’s sessions at sbcannualmeeting.net
This is a bit late, but I'm in the basement for the next few days. There may possibly be a post from Indy but I wouldn't count on it. when I return I'll regale you all with full details. Auditory Illusions - via Digg
I know a while back I declared the Rickroll to be lame and over, but this is pretty clever
Apparently a new term to replace "jumped the shark" when dealing with movies, "nuked the fridge." I'm not sure I totally buy in.
Who's worth more - rich people vs. rich dead people
The TSA is checking you out now
I don't know if this is real, but if it is, it's amazing. If it's fake it's still really cool. - via Myextralife
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In my previous post I asked people to lobby me for their candidate for SBC president. As I have thought about this I realize that many of my readers need a bit of a lesson in Southern Baptist polity.
I think the first thing to establish is that the president of the Southern Baptist Convention is largely a figurehead position. What I mean by that is that the SBC itself is not so much a denomination as a collection of independent churches. No president of the convention or Associational Director Of Missions has any actual power over any church. Our statement of faith the BFM 2000 is just that; a statement of faith. We join ourselves together because we hold common beliefs not because of any hierarchy. Our associational DOM has no authority over the 96 churches of the NSRBA. The convention president is the same. He has no real power.
So what does the president do and why even bother going to the convention at all? The president is moderator of the convention, he appoints the committee on committees, and he serves largely as a spokesman for all Southern Baptists to the media.
Let’s look at each of these duties and deal with them separately with the 6 candidates in mind.
First, the SBC president serves as moderator over the convention. This is a 2-day per year job. (In execution, though surely there is a lot of prep work that must be done.) Based on my knowledge of the candidates any of them would be fine in this position. There is a parliamentarian on hand to keep whoever it is straight on the details. It may well be that some of the candidates are a bit more in love with the sound of their own voice than others ;) but the sheer amount of business that must be carried out in two days makes it necessary that the president keep things moving. The position of moderator concludes with the convention sermon, they all have different skills in this regard, but hopefully any of them would be well-prepared and ready to bring God’s word to the convention.
Second, the SBC president nominates the committee on committees. Once upon a time, this was probably the most significant part of the job. Now that the convention as a whole is solidly conservative, and full of inerrentists, most likely all of the candidates would appoint all conservatives to this position. (An aside: I am thankful to God for those who figured out the significance of this and led to the conservative resurgence.)
Third, the convention president largely serves as spokesman and ambassador to the media for the entire denomination. It would be impossible to be a spokesman for the entire group of millions of Southern Baptists. As I stated earlier, we are a very independent group, and only joined because we choose to cooperate. This part of the job is significant because the media does not understand the nature of our convention. So we need an apt spokesperson. I have heard Frank Page say repeatedly that he was approached by all the major presidential candidates and asked for an endorsement. There are many other people who to some degree speak on behalf of Southern Baptists. That is essentially Richard Land’s job description, and to a large degree Al Mohler does the same thing. But there will never be a true replacement for the SBC president. This is the part of the job where the candidates truly begin to separate themselves. This is also one of the reasons that the megachurch pastors have a leg up on the field in most cases.
At this point, for me, the election is down to Frank Cox, Johnny Hunt, and Avery Willis, in no particular order. You basically have one more day to lobby me for your candidate, or disagree with my analysis in the comments. Feel free to do so.
Also as a bonus, here are links to the candidates interviews with Baptist Press
One of the major concerns we hear about in Southern Baptist life is the lack of “young leaders.”
You often read that people under age 40 feel somehow alienated by the processes of the SBC. I am under 35, and seminary educated, but I don’t feel either jaded or disenfranchised with the processes of the SBC.
I have no idea what all the commentators mean by “leader” but I’m pretty sure I don’t qualify on that front. I’m the youth minister at a small church, and I have no ambition to ever preach the convention sermon, but I do want to see the Southern Baptist Convention be the best it can be. I obviously am a blogger, (hopefully the stigma from that label is gone now) and I read a handful of SBC blogs. Some I agree with, some I don’t. I would very much like to one day earn my PhD and my readers already know I want to be a certified apologetics instructor. It would be great to have a bunch of readers on my blog, but this blog is too often about fishing to ever catch on in a big way. So, surely I am not a “leader.” All I want is to bring glory to God in whatever position He puts me. And if that means being a youth minister to 10 kids, then hopefully I can help them to grow closer to Christ and have an impact on their world.
Despite not being a “young leader” I believe I am the very person that many people are concerned about. As an under 35, seminary educated, Southern Baptist, I am interested in what happens, and deeply concerned with the baptism decline. I hope this doesn’t sound arrogant, really I just believe I fit the mold. I’m sure there are many like me.
I will be attending the Southern Baptist Convention in Indianapolis, and I can honestly say that I do not know who I will be voting for for president. There are 6 candidates. (<update>I am only seriously considering 3 </update>of them.) I am genuinely undecided. This is your opportunity to lobby for my vote. Use the comments to convince me that your choice for SBC president is the one who will best lead the convention.
Here are some things you may want to know about me before you begin your defense. Some of this is a repeat.
Let the lobbying begin
I know this post is a couple of days early. I'm in the basement til Saturday. So enjoy the best of the web this week, and I'll post about my adventures on Monday. How Google really places map markers - via Digg
Find the Lizard - Here's the answer key - via Digg I wasn't sure it was there at first. But it is. And once you cheat, you can find it right away
Bacon Salt "Because everything should taste like bacon" - via @hangry
This video makes me certain that there is a God.
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I’m just back from the city council meeting (the one from this post) and we won. That is the third time this property has been defeated for rezoning. I don’t know if my letter was any help to our case in the meeting, but thanks for reading it earlier. Also thanks to Caroline for editing the crap out of it.
I have an old post called “Makes Me Proud to be From Kentucky.” Tonight I learned something interesting at the city council meeting that makes me proud to be from Fayetteville. Apparently, Fayetteville is the third worst city in the US to raise a kid. That’s right…third worst (#255). Take that Beaumont Texas!
As you can imagine, all the local media outlets have picked up on this, and of course, they have man on the street style quotes in the articles. My favorite is in the one from our nearest ABC affiliate,
It's almost not surprising…
That is pride in a city right there.
I know these kinds of things are just done to sell magazines and start arguments, but this is a poor distinction.
Interestingly, the worst city on the list, Clarkesville TN, is a mere half-hour from my hometown. Maybe this magazine has a bias against me. Or maybe they just don’t like military towns.
I’ll end this post with another quote from one of the many articles.
How your children turn out has much less to do with where you raise them than how you raise them. I daresay you could raise a wonderful kid in Clarksville, Tenn., and a rotten one in Honolulu.
Well said!
You know you are really fishing when you come home all scratched up. I fish most of the time in a private lake between two neighborhoods. It is the middle in a string of three lakes. And it is the only one of the three I have fished. The one above it is very small, and is located behind an apartment complex. And the one below it is huge and located on about 3 apartment complexes, 2 neighborhoods and one of the busiest roads in town.
At the eastern end of the lake is a fork. As you can see in this picture, 
it looks like a peninsula that reaches out into the shallow end of the lake. The guy I fish with, Jack, always calls it an island, and says that he has been all the way around it before, but I never quite believed him. We usually fish as far as we can go into the shallower of the forks, and it is one of our most productive parts of the lake. The other fork is much deeper, partly. It is much deeper in a channel about as wide as the boat. The rest of that fork is about a foot deep. That channel is the main channel feeding the lake. For some reason, Friday I said, “Why don’t we go under the bridge and see if we can get to the spillway of the next lake.” (That would be the upstream lake. The one on the left in the picture.) We didn’t know if we could make it, but it seemed worth a try, so we headed out. Immediately I learned a lesson. It is, in fact, an island. 
Here you can see the water on the back side.
So we proceeded under the bridge, we didn’t know which side to go up, and I was afraid of it having a concrete bottom, but we chose the right and headed out. 
I was surprised that there were no bats under there, also that it was so easy to get through. There was one limb in the path, but we could put up the trolling motor and paddle past with no trouble. When we came out the other side I could see we chose the right side, because the other had a beaver dam blocking the entrance.
Also after we came through the bridge we were navigating a stream only about as wide as the boat. We moved along with the paddle and by pulling on low hanging branches. It forked several times, but we always took the path that seemed deepest. We were just getting the hang of it, when we were blocked, unable to make it to the spillway in the boat. We came to a place where we could see the spillway probably 50 yards in the distance, but we were blocked by a beaver dam. Stupid beavers. 
We thought since we’ve come this far, we should get out and see if we can walk to the spillway. It was strange, I sort of felt like a 12 year old out “exploring” in the woods. Also I learned a lesson, though it is a lot lighter it is much harder to walk through the woods with a fishing pole than a gun. It’s longer and gets tangled on every stupid branch. So we tried working our way up the stream then had to turn back. We tried to go around the thicket but were swamped in by all the forks in the creek we didn’t take the first time.
It turns out, we went all that way for nothing. Then we had to figure out something that hadn’t occurred to us before. How do we turn the boat around? After taking the trolling motor off, and putting Jack in the boat, (to float up the front) I was able to stay on the bank and swing it around. Then I managed to get back in without falling in the water, and we paddled back. Back under the bridge, 
and into familiar home water. We caught nothing, but it was an interesting little adventure. So I thought I’d share it. 
Despite that detour, I had a good day fishing. I caught 2 bass and 2 jacks (pike) and I had a third bass hooked. In fact I had 2 fish on in my first 10 casts of the morning. (a topwater chugger with a 3 foot trailer) But I had to fight about 25 backlashes trying to throw that rig.
This post was kind of a rambling mess. Thanks for reading.
<update> This is a very popular post. Somebody really needs to answer this thoroughly. But if you are dealing with a young peach tree you may find this article helpful. </update>Anybody know? The tree was pretty much completely laying on the ground, so I propped up some on the boughs with these planks. Once the fruit begins to grow, it will be probably on the ground again, but it was certainly going to rot the way it was.
I used two different boards to prop up the 2 biggest branches on the tree. it is absolutely loaded with peaches, and I'm afraid it will break or the boards will grow into it or something. So anyone who knows let me know, and I'll get rid of them if they will harm the tree
Here's what the whole tree looks like all propped up.
This is a slow week in good web junk. But the video is frightening and amazing. Fish in Urinal - From Dave Barry
Amazing video of a tornado
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Today’s topic is hypocrisy.
I’ll start by asking a question, what exactly is hypocrisy? Is it a difference between teaching and action? Or is it a difference between belief and action, or is it something else?
If I struggle with a particular sin, is it hypocritical to tell others it’s wrong?
Let’s use the example of the sin I cannot hide. All you need to do is look at the banner on this blog to see that I clearly am engaged in very poor stewardship of my body. My weight is a problem. I believe that it is a sin. In fact, I know it’s wrong to be obese. So the question I have is, do I become a hypocrite for saying so, when clearly it is a problem I struggle with? If this is hypocrisy, then what is my option? Do I have to pretend that it’s okay? Am I barred from ever speaking on the subject? What about related questions? Can I not tell my youth it's wrong to smoke because it destroys their bodies? Am I stuck in some sort of unending question mark loop?
To restate the question - can I acknowledge a sin and at the same time struggle with it?
I have often said that everyone is a hypocrite in some way. Usually there is something that we say we believe, but we live in a way inconsistent with that belief. For example, if I say that I love fishing but I haven’t fished in 2 years, (I’m definitely not talking about myself now) does that make me a hypocrite, a liar, or just somebody with a poor sense of what I like. (Just for the record, everybody finds time to do what they want to do.) Maybe that’s too trivial to be hypocrisy. Maybe I say I am committed to conservation and I do many good things for the planet, but I’m just not willing to take that extra step and switch to the cloth grocery bags, because they are expensive and stupid looking. I’m not quite sure that that is in fact hypocrisy.
Feel free to chime in on this one.
This topic is brought on because I am reading unChristian
I'm planning on sending this as a e-mail to the city council later this week. I would like you, my brilliant readers, to critique it, and let me know how it could be improved.
Fayetteville City Council, and Mayor Chavonne:
My name is Jeremy Mathis, and I am writing, regarding the rezoning of the property at the corner of Reilly Road & Telfair Ave. I live in within the notification range and also am a staff member of LaGrange Park Baptist Church
What are the concerns of our church? In other words, why would we care enough for me to send you this letter?
First, we are concerned about the potential for business that might move in. I have not seen any plan as to what may open up in the property, there are no restrictions over what kind of business may move in. To put it plainly there are certain things we as a church do not want to have right next door. And regardless of what it is planned as now, once it is rezoned, there is no controlling what it might become in a few years
Secondly, we want to be the LaGrange Park Church. We are not interested in becoming between the Fast food restaurant and used car lot. Help us prevent what has happened to the Yadkin Road churches.
Thirdly, we desire to be an advocate for our community, at least to the degree that it's desire is moral. Very clearly, the will of the neighborhood is to keep that property zoned residential. It will suffice to remind you that the city council is elected, and the count in the zoning board meeting was about 20 opposed and 3 (consisting of the 2 property owners and their lawyer) in favor.
Fourthly, the only entrance to the property is from Telfair Avenue. There is no Reilly Road entrance. Therefore the only way to enter any future businesses located on this property would be to enter the neighborhood. This moves traffic further back into the neighborhood, and closer to our homes and children.
The lawyer speaking in favor, Mr Charleston, will say…
that a property owner has the right to the “highest & best” use of his property. – I honestly do not know what he means by “highest.” But as to “best,” we would all be in agreement. A property owner is entitled to the best use of his or her property. Best, however, is a contextual term. If one buys a residential property, it seems that the best use of it would be for residential. The owner can sell it, rent it out, or improve upon the property. But the best use of a residential property is residential. I definitely don’t think that this council wants to begin to say that all property is best used as commercial.
that the character of Reilly Rd is commercial. – I submit to you this photograph. Although, three of the properties in view in this photo are commercial, the character of the road is not overwhelmingly so. As you look towards the church, you see trees rather than buildings. The only sign is the one for the nail salon.
that the church is essentially a commercial property. – I would argue that we are not commercial. We are not commercial in terms of mission or function, or for the purposes that affect this council. We meet on Sunday mornings and evenings. Low traffic times on Reilly Rd, and we therefore have little impact or effect on the traffic footprint. Otherwise on Wednesday evenings we meet at 7:00 p.m. and the rush has long since dispersed when our traffic is generated.
that there is no opposition from adjacent homes. – I say there are at least three currently empty homes in the circle. Furthermore, at least 3 of the homes in the circle are rental properties, the owners do not live there, so of course they do not care if traffic is moved closer to their homes. And there are 3 representatives of properties within the circle, here speaking in opposition.
many similar properties all over town have been rezoned - I say that those do not matter, we are only dealing with one property now and should only look at the case in hand. My mother would say, "if all your friends jumped off a cliff would you?" Please don’t jump off that cliff.
You may be thinking the die is cast, and that Reilly Road is destined to become a commercial zone. I submit that you are the holders of the die, and it will only become what you, the council, allow it to become. I would like to think that you had a very compelling reason to overrule the entire neighborhood, by rezoning this property. I urge you, don’t do it.
Putting up this week's Friday fun post a bit early. Statistically speaking this is the most posts ever in one week for me. this week also had the busiest and slowest days ever on this blog. Odd. Maybe the awesomest and scariest pictures I've ever seen - From Ryan
guyforceshiswifetodressinagarbagebagforthenextthreeyears.com - From HIMYM so weird that networks register every website mentioned on TV.
Youngme/Nowme - Ryan showed me this a while back, then I saw it again this week. Very cool
Mirror's Edge - I obviously have no idea what this game might be about. Looks like some sort of first person Ninja game. Look at it. It's so pretty
Extreme sports have clearly gone too far - via Dave Barry [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67fFDiPRsrk]