The chihuahua made famous for its role in those late-90s Taco Bell commercials has died, reports People.com.
Gidget, the female dog who played a male dog on TV, and was given the GGI ability to exclaim "Yo quiero Taco Bell!" suffered a stroke at the home of her long time trainer Sue Chipperton.
Chipperton eulogized her thus: "She made so many people happy... I like to joke that it's like looking after a plant. Gidget always knew where the camera was."
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Earlier today, the moon passed directly in front of the sun, causing a total solar eclipse that crossed nearly half the Earth - through Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar and China. Today's was the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, lasting as much as 6 minutes and 39 seconds in a few areas. Despite cloudy skies in many of the populated areas in the path, millions of people gathered outside to gaze up and view this rare event. Collected here are a few images of the eclipse, and those people who came out to watch.
There is very little that the ACLU and I agree on, but I thought I would post a link to one of their videos here. A friend published this link on FaceBook and I thought it was worth sharing. At the end of the video there is a petition link that you should consider signing. Click on the image above to watch the short video.
The Houston Chronicle science blog has a post from "a very young rookie Chronicle reporter" that was covering the Apollo 11 moon landing. It is hard for me to imagine what that time was really like. Click on the picture to read the full post.
Once away from the brighter lights of the buildings, I found a grassy spot and lay on my back looking at the moon, which was a bit more than half-full and waning, and wondered at what man had just accomplished. I found tears streaming down the sides of my face as I was overwhelmed with the wonder of it all and knew that I wanted more than anything to report on space exploration.
Our church is heavily invested in church planting. Back in 2002 we helped Kevin and Amy Colón start Cool River Church in Superior, CO. I don't know Kevin or Amy personally but I have really enjoyed getting to know them through their blogs over the last couple of years.
Yesterday Kevin had a post titled "Lead With Love" that I thought I would share. An excerpt from the post is below. Click on the link to the left to read the full post.
Now that can be a challenge for some of us that grew up with the 'get the message out at all cost' approach. It may sound nice but it's actually not much like what Jesus was doing. Many people think that Jesus was just preaching and teaching away. But how do you think the crowds got there? Jesus didn't have a PR guy. He didn't have an email blast to send out. He didn't have billboards announcing he would be in town to speak the next Saturday. Nope. His life was so amazing, what he was doing was so full of love that people, he was such a blessing to those around him that the people HAD to get to him.
