In case you haven’t heard the news, Ricardo Montalban passed away.
Here’s a nice interview with JRR Tolkien from 1964, released in 1971. (HT: Michael Spencer and Bettnet.com)
It looks like Peter Jackson may finally get to make The Hobbit. It would be an understatement to say that this is freaking awesome.
Gordon Bell and others are working on technology that they hope will allow us to make backups of our memories. This falls in that category of being simultaneously cool and creepy.
TED – Technology, Entertainment, Design TED is a group that brings in people of many views on many topics who talk about big ideas. You’ll hear thoughts on everything from religion to story telling to science and technology and anything else bright people talk about. Some will challenge you to ponder new ideas, and some [...]
Steve Wozniak (the Woz), the engineer who actually designed and built the original Apple computer, is getting interested in energy efficient housing. For as much as Apple is known for its design style and simplicity, I wonder how much of that philosophy came from Woz? (I’d wager his is as much an influence as Mr. [...]
If you happen to be in the market for a new Greek New Testament, the new Nestle-Aland Novum Teatamentum Graece (NA27) is now available in a Wide Margin Edition. If I hadn’t bought a Greek NT last year, I’d pick this up. As is, I’ll have to keep a notebook for any notes I make [...]
Bit the first: Eleven Photoshop tricks to create movie poster effects (HT: Lifehacker)Bit the second: Jerram Barrs on raising educated peopleBit the third: The CoE Bishop of Buckingham links to one fantastic guitarist.
The inevitable side effect of following too many blogs is that you find too many cool links to share. Most of the time I sit on them for a couple days, and if I still have a passing interest, I’ll pass them along. Sites like Lifehacker and Lifehack provide endless linkage. Sometimes I feel like [...]
Sure, you can find me on Facebook and Myspace, but there is a much cooler social networking site: Virb. You can find my profile here. If you’re on, add me as a friend. If you’re not on, go sign yourself up, then add me as a friend! I created a brand new group for Anglicans [...]