Saturday Links Serving

Hi Friends.

I ended up not going to homeless breakfast yesterday. There was no way for me to get home, because they were going to be involved in moving the location all mid-morning post breakfast, and I had Chapel to get back for. Next Friday.

I have a few links to pass along... I read a lot of blogs, and most of them help you improve your life. Here are some fresh links for your weekend.

Services:

Mint >> Online Money Management (I so need this...) [via: Lifehacker]

Facebook >> Social Networking... Its not just for high schoolers. Promote yourself on the web. There are endless applications to customize your experience. I now track all the books I have read through my Visual Bookshelf. [See my Facebook here]

Google Docs >> Create, Edit, View, Share, and Collaborate your documents, spreadsheets, and now powerpoint presentations all online. [linked to your Google Account]

Blogs:

Church Relevance Blog >> Cool demographic insights, solid interviews, and wonderings about how to engage modern culture better.

Smashing Magazine >> For web developers and other tech geeks. Cool design stuff (like graphics, and fonts), and other useful applications.

Google Reader >> Ok, not a blog in itself, but, it is the only way I can keep up with the 109 subscriptions I have. That number grows at a net rate of probably 1-2/week. Here are some stats. I have only recently started to star/share/and email things. All of those emails are from the last week.

"From your 109 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 942 items, starred 22 items, shared 3 items, and emailed 3 items."

Ok... I have a paper to try and write before I jet off to the city. You rock.

History Papers - And a photo.

I have written my first tougher paper of the semester for my History of US since 1945 class (HIS480). It's about 1500 words, entitled: The Facade of Postwar American Consensus.

Here is the thesis:

In the late 1940's and 1950's, America showed signs of growing popular consensus regarding what was good for the nation. This consensus, or general agreement, was shared by many flocking to suburban America and, although policy implementation among parties differed; shared by many national leaders. This is true - however, consensus was not shared by all, most notably, the impoverished, African Americans. This era of consensus would not last long. [read the rest of the paper on Google Docs by clicking here].

As this paper marks a real attempt to write a quality paper, I would appreciate all feedback. I wish it wasn't due for a week so I could revise it based on critique, but alas... It is due at 1pm, today (and I already emailed it to my Prof. haha).

I also had a primary source document assignment for History of Civ II (HIS262).

Document Assignment - Chapter 3 (HIS262)

Re: The picture. I whipped up a little Gimp/Picasa magic last night as a creative response to feeling the pressure of the paper. Stop the Traffik has been on my mind a lot lately... I have a cool story about a recruit I talked to earlier this week too... So I hope I can get that up soon.