another day shows its face

1. CONFESSION: Sometimes I e-ssume

We live in a day when it’s so easy to just assume. We see people as books. Or as blog posts. Or as Tweets. Or as avatars. Or as champions of one cause. Or as political positions. Or as (fill in the blank).

I don’t know about you, but my “online identity” is only a small portion of who I really am. Yet all of us are guilty of e-ssuming far too much about people based on their online identity.

2. This is a brilliant idea:

CATHOLIC VOICES is a bureau of Catholic speakers able to articulate with conviction the Church's positions on major contentious issues in the media. Through regular expert briefings and media skills workshops from March to July 2010, a team of Catholics drawn from a broad spectrum of the Church are preparing for Pope Benedict XVI's visit in September, to make themselves available to the media before and during that time.

3. Check this out:

4. Have you seen the "Double Rainbow" video? If so, you need to hear the musical version by the makers of Autotune the News.

5. Someone (with a lot of time on their hands) has started to film Star Wars using Star Wars toys.

6. Speaking of Star Wars toys, have you ever wanted a pet AT-AT walker?

When I was a kid, there are two things I wanted badly and never got... A real dog and a Kenner AT-AT Walker.

7. It turns out that Marty McFly did not time travel to this week after all.

8. Wayne's World on Google Street View.

9. Arrested Development as an action movie.

10. And I just found a KFC/Taco Bell "Double Rainbow" parody.

11. Coheed and Cambria performing "World of Lines" live. I'm not that into the new album, but it has a few cool songs - this is one of them.

12. Apparently Underoath and drummer/singer Aaron Gillespie have parted ways. It's too bad - he was great at what he did and really made Underoath a unique band. I still have hope that they can continue on with some great music. The whole band is a talented group of guys.