Refined by Fire

Embarking a New Leg of the Journey

Life. That sweet, but sometimes blustery gust we all breathe can at times go in strange and divergent directions than we intend for ourselves. Try as hard as we might to craft our own sails and guide our destinies, we’re still subject to both the seemingly whimsical storms and the peaceful lulls of calm.

Recently, life brought to me an opportunity that just made too much sense to pass up.

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Intelligent Design in Louisiana Public Schools; Internet Sings with Praise

Yeah. Right.

Learned about this news through Kevin D. White’s FriendFeed page, but as one can imagine, it didn’t exactly come along with positive support.

He picked this up from Phil Plait at “Bad Astronomy,”

the education bill that will allow creationism to be taught in public schools has now passed both the House and the Senate in the state government. In other words, if Governor Bobby Jindal signs it, it becomes law. And then Louisiana is doomed.

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Cultured Code’s iPhone Flow Sketches = Nice Craft

I gave a little Things tip here, but here’s another reason to like these guys. Just ran across this illustration on the Cultured Code blog and had to share.
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Social Media in Plain English

Gotta love the simplicity. Video are now available for corporate use via Common Craft’s Web store.

via Laughing Squid

NYC Tweetup. Or, Face-to-Face Support Groups for When Twitter’s Down

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That’s what Chrissie Brodigan overheard. Some of the twitterholics got together tonight and actually met up face-to-face. I mean actually shaking hands and seeing eye-to-eye… I know, crazy right?

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