BibleMap.org is a very cool Google Mashup that lets you link Bible locations in the ESV to Google Map views. In addition to pointing out the location on the map, the pop-up window has information and links to photos of the area. The project is in active development, and new locations are being added. One [...]
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 [...]
“Here will be an old abusing of God’s patience and the king’s English.” –William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I, Scene IV
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 [...]
They have strange and wonderful sports (like hurling and Gaelic football), the clubs are all amateur, and they make for the most viewed sports on their local TV stations.
Having spent some time doing the “pomo church” thing, I’m no stranger to finding good movie connections to scripture. I actually love it, whether in movies or life in general, when I see scripture connections and teachable Bible moments. One of the great underrated movies is the kid/baseball movie, Sandlot. Thinkling De made a fantastic [...]
“To be nobody but yourself in a world that’s doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.”– e. e. cummings (HT: Kent)
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.
That which was Lance Armstrong’s team Discovery is no more, disbanding after it failed to secure a new sponsor, as reported today by the BBC. This isn’t a surprise, since continued doping scandals have seriously damaged the sport in recent years. I won’t defend this kind of behavior among professionals, but I find it odd [...]