Zip around the airport in these oh-so-british driverless pods. The future is now.

Someone please tell these guys " why?" before they get whiplash or hit their heads on something sharp.

Consumer's Union put out another clever movie highlighting the growing media hegemony in the U.S. I'm not personally so concerned with media consolidation, but what bothers me is the way media companies throw their weight around to enact DRM that makes for lousy products and loss of freedom. I don't pirate anything, why do I need DRM in my products? I don't want to have to buy a different copy of every song I like to play on my phone, versus my stereo, versus my computer. Consumer's Union isn't directly addressing this issue with this campaign, but it is more than peripherally related.

An unbelievable sculpture which recreates San Francisco in Jell-O. An artist after my own heart. See the photos here.

This ad traces the evolutionary history of three gents at a pub back to their evolutionary ancestors. The punch-line is brilliant: "Good things come to those who wait"

What an awesome commentary on faith, consumerism and pop culture. This lanyard replacement for the iPod shuffle turns your player into a cross. In the process it forces you to ask yourself where your worship is directed. Buy one here.

Here is a wacky video that looks like a demo for some special effects artist. Someone took a bunch of close-up plant video and added wacky eyes and beaks and probers and stuff. Disturbingly realistic, but obviously fantasy.

God's Politics by Jim Wallis is an encouraging book that critiques the state of religion and politics in the U.S.

Some of the points that I drew from the book are:

• ...that the Republicans have co-opted the sincerely faithful followers of Jesus by reducing the public discussion of faith to issues of abortion and gay-rights when in fact Jesus' teachings are far broader.
• ...that this has been possible because the Democrats have run in fear from all public expressions of faith and react caustically to the suggestion that personal faith should express itself publically.
• ...that this is necessary because Jesus' full teachings would challenge the current power structure, the current disregard for the poor, the current American budget and the consumer economy machine that thrives on materialism.

The reason I found it encouraging was because throughout the book, Mr. Wallis presents a method of rejecting the false choices that are presented to us by finding a "third-way". So rather than accepting that you are either pro-choice or pro-life, you can be pro-adoption, anti-poverty, pro-family and reach many of the same goals in a non-confrontational way. Rather than being pro or anti-homosexual, you can be pro-family, pro-marriage and respect homosexuals as people created in the image of God. In both cases there is no need to give ground and say that abortion is okay, or that homosexuality is okay - I don't believe they are - but you can reject the us vs. them mentality which makes it impossible to show Christ's love to people with whom you disagree.