January 2008
24 posts
December 2007
26 posts
Download Uproar: Record Industry Goes After... →
“Sony BMG’s chief of litigation, Jennifer Pariser, testified that “when an individual makes a copy of a song for himself, I suppose we can say he stole a song.” Copying a song you bought is “a nice way of saying ‘steals just one copy,’ ” she said.” Holy crap that’s ridiculous. (Via Gruber)
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliog... →
‘Ode to Joy,’ Followed by Chaos and Despair -... →
Quicksilver's Creator on the Future of QS →
This is one of my favorite apps, and a huge reason I love to use a Mac machine. It’s not a rosy future, but at least I can still use the version I have here.
Church Begins Using O-Slashes and Umlauts to... →
Tominthebox: “Last week we had three couples show up from Finland, one from Sweden and a guy from Denmark, all thinking we were some kind of special Scandinavian church. When we told them what we were doing they didn’t seem to understand.”
Top 10 Books Read This Year
Come on, everybody’s doin’ it: Mine are a bit eclectic, and encompass some required course reading: 1. On Being a Theologian of the Cross - Gerharde Forde (life-changing) 2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling 3. Covenant, Justification & Pastoral Ministry – R. Scott Clark, ed. 4. The Architecture of Happiness - Alain de Botton 5. The Theology of the Book of...
Icelandic teen dupes White House →
”It was totally worth all the fuss.”
Light Shining Out of Darkness
William Cowper.God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the sea And rides upon the storm.Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up His bright designs And works His sov’reign will.Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take; The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break In blessings on your head.Judge not the Lord by feeble...
“In the same way that paying off our nation’s debts by printing a few...”
– Jason Stellman: Cult, Culture, and the Christian’s Dual Citizenship: On Hermetic Sealing, Overlap, and Boys Who Cry “Wolf!”
Various Works of P.T. Forsyth « Per Crucem ad... →
In dog we trust: Japan's childless turn to... →
Wow—real life validation of much of P. D. James’ The Children of Men: how does modern Japanese worldview fall in line with that portrayed in James’ futureless Britain?
Auden on criticism
“Criticism is tradition defending itself against the three armies of the Goddess Stupidity: the army of amateurs who are ignorant of tradition; the army of conceited eccentrics who believe tradition should be suressed by the stroke of a pen in order that true art may begin with them; and the army of academicians who believe they maintain tradition by a service imitation of the past.”...
A Sinner's Tale
NYT: It seems to me that the impulse to atone is a religious one, and yet you are a self-declared atheist.
Ian McEwan: Yes, I am an atheist, and probably Briony is, too. Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It’s a little easier if you’ve got a god to forgive you.
NYT: Not necessarily. Faith in itself is not easy to sustain.
Ian McEwan: Well, we won’t get into that.
The making of FF Meta Serif – Fontshop →