Commend your wife’s/girlfriend’s inner beauty

May 14, 2009

Carolyn McCulley

Woman going without makeup for a month to make statement about the ‘crisis of distorted self image’

February 18, 2009

day141TrueCampaign.org (HT: D. J. Chuang)

‘Miss America struggles to stay relevant in a changing media world’

January 27, 2009

Laura Vanderkam, Culture11

FYI: Venus-Jupiter-moon conjunction tonight

December 1, 2008

From spaceweather.com:

“When the sun goes down tonight, step outside and look south.  Beaming through the twilight is one of the prettiest things you’ll ever see–a tight three-way conjunction of Venus, Jupiter and the crescent Moon.  The event is visible from all parts of the world, even from light-polluted cities.  People in New York and Hong Kong will see it just as clearly as astronomers watching from remote mountaintops. Only cloudy weather or a midnight sun (sorry Antarctica!) can spoil the show.
 
The great conjunction offers something extra to Europeans. For more than an hour on Monday evening, the crescent Moon will actually eclipse Venus. Astronomers call such an event a “lunar occultation.” Venus emerging from the dark edge of the Moon is a remarkably beautiful sight.  Sky watchers across Europe will be able to see this happen.”

Find out your sunset time here.

“Top 10 best-designed Christian blogs”

November 3, 2008

A list (with screenshots) compiled by self-professed Christian geek, Isaiah C.

Don’t you wish you were in Texas?

November 1, 2008


“An autumn view of ‘The Blue Hole‘ on the H.E. Butt Foundation property, near Laity Lodge.”

Courtesy of Mark D. Roberts.

20 unusual churches

October 29, 2008

Some very interesting images at a blog called Village of Joy.

PRISM Weight Loss Program: a review

October 28, 2008

Posted by at twoorthree.net by Daniel G., who has been a participant of the program for the last ten weeks:

“To the right are my 0 and 6 week pictures. I lost 15 lbs. in that time. I am actually surprised that I like the program, and it succeeds because of it’s multi-faceted approach.”

Official PRISM site.

The science of beauty

October 9, 2008

“There is a difference, isn’t there, between beautiful and attractive.”

Beliefnet’s Rod Dreher comments on a NY Times story about a software program that can manipulate photos of people to make them appear more beautiful (to most beholders).