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You know something new has become something real when TIME Magazine covers it with such a reasonable tone. Read their article There's No Pulplit Like Home.

Just a little fun game to test your ability to watch and avoid four things at once: Escape!

Andrew over at Tall Skinny Kiwi gave voice to feelings of misunderstanding between numerous critics and leaders in the conventional church and the movement of churches known as "emerging church". I appreciate his encouragement to not only stay the course, but to speak up and help others understand what the movement is really all about.

The Kroc Community Center offers its ice skating rink for public use at least once per day. Check the schedule for dates and details. Cost: $6.50 to skate, $2.50 to rent skates.

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog is the closest I have come so far to reading a definitive site on the subject of this new web application design philosophy known as Web 2.0. The days of static web pages with links and buttons is being overtaken by pages that come alive kinda like the programs we began using before the web emerged, but in a new massively connected way not possible before it did.

When we lived in Papua New Guinea, we watched the games played by village children with curiosity. One tag game, which they called Tali Masok involved a pair of teams taking turns strategically guarding lines or avoiding being tagged.

Here are some more sites with games form around the world:

• Kids Games from Around the World
• GamesKidsPlay.net
  

You can now fit a full collection of open source productivity software onto a regular thumbdrive for easily transferring your work environment from comptuer to computer. Download a full suite or each portable-ready app individually at johnhaller.com.

Even though Microsoft is finally getting around to releasing a version seven of their Internet Explorer browser, most of the recent innovation has been taking place with the freely downloadable Firefox browser. The main feature Firefox brought to the mainstream and that IE7 will be offering is tabbed browsing. With a tabbed browser, you can open new browser "windows" in the same window but with the page title appearing in a tab instead of the window title bar. This makes it really practical to switch between multiple web pages simultaneously without spending all your time finding the right window on your task bar.

Beyond tabbed browsing, Firefox has captured a significant share of the browser market by offering programmers the ability to extend its functionality through add-ins they call Extensions.

Here are some of my favorite Firefox Extensions and why:

A friend of mine suggested we go trap or skeet shooting sometime. He says that San Diego Shotgun Sports is the best in the San Diego area, and Project 2000 Range is the best in the El Cajon area.

Jakob Nielsen, the father of the science of web usability, has just released his second review of intranet portals and found that products and usage are still lagging behind what we know about them. Learn, then do, would be a good guiding principle, it appears.