After (too many) years of reading Slashdot fairly regularly, today I removed it from my feed reader. The signal-to-noise ratio has gotten really, really bad (and has been forever), and I finally got tired of it. Far too often, a story about some piece of technology, or law/policy regarding technology, for example, inexorably leads to …
While there’s nothing explicitly pro-life about this story, I love how the doctors suggested abortion (Hippocrates must be spinning in his grave), but the mother refused and it ended up saving her life. It reminds me of this heartbreaking story. A mother refuses to terminate her pregnancy or start chemo for her liver cancer, saying, …
The new year is here and I’m going to try something a lit bit different, something, in fact, that I have actively avoided for many years: I’m going to make some New Year’s resolutions.
Apparently, R.O.U.S. do exist!
My friend Brian sent me this story. He didn’t send a link, so I can’t attribute it correctly, but I’ll share it anyway. What a great story.
I just found this REALLY cool Greek Study Bible website and pointed it out to a couple friends of mine who are also students of Koine. One of them noted that, on this site, verbs are highlighted in red and nouns in blue. He felt this contradicted the popular romantic poem. My efforts to show …
Wow. “Comprehensive, yet simple, stealthy and fast. Datejs has passed all trials and is ready to strike. Datejs doesn’t just parse strings, it slices them cleanly in two.”
Awesome.
This guy lists the top ten most obnoxious bumper stickers he has seen in Madison. In related news, this guy has good take on the uber-obnoxious “COEXIST” bumper sticker.
Another one of my all time favorite bands is Saviour Machine. Like the aforementioned 311 song, I decided I’d read the lyrics as the song played. Not that they’re hard to understand, necessarily. Just thought I’d do it. Well, they may be easy to understand, but they’re far from being easy to comprehend. To wit, …