The power of HTML: The Synoptic Gospels Primer
It’s rare that I see web page that so perfectly captures the power of HTML to make complex ideas accessible as this wonderful website exploring the Two Documents Hypothesis in New Testament studies....
View ArticleSometimes you DON’T get the best deal online
I've found this rather counterintuitive, so I thought I'd share for bargain hunting posterity. Since I spilled a cup of coffee on my laptop (a Lenovo 3000 N100) recently, a few of my keys either...
View ArticleIgnore messages from FanBox
Judging by my inbox over the last few days, a lot of people I know seem to have been taken in by the spammongers at FanBox, one of the more disreputable sites out there that masquerade as legitimate...
View ArticleThe case of the purloined curly quotes.
I'm making final revisions to a masters thesis that's had stuff pasted in from many sources. What I generally do is choose to Paste Special and choose Unformatted Unicode to avoid importing any...
View ArticleLatest pseudo-science inspired by this blog’s title
I see it more of a quirk of the unexpected workings of Internet media than anything else, but as I’ve mentioned before, despite my blog’s quite modest traffic every now and again a contributor to an...
View ArticleReport on the Arabic Blogosphere
Dustin over at His Peace Upon Us, a thoughtful and recommended new Christian blog dedicated to dialogue between Christians and Muslims, reports on a very interesting study of the Arabic-language...
View ArticleLocal activism from abroad
This is quite random (not to mention old, as it’s dated Nov 3, 2008), but having a background in ICT4D I found this report on a technology blog intriguing. It goes without saying that the Internet...
View ArticleTips for Internet-based scholarship
I write painfully little these days, but I save huge amounts of online references for future reference–I'm an Internet equivalent of a paranoid backwoods survivalist, except that I'm compulsively...
View ArticleWhy is Apple denying Americans information about their governnment’s drone...
If you care about the health of American democracy and/or the large numbers of civilians being regularly killed through drone attacks in South Asia, please spread the word about the outrageous decision...
View ArticleAmazon, leading the way…back to the 19th Century!
Check out Simon Head’s “Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon’s sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers” on Salon.com. It’s chilling and eye-opening. It’s an expose of truly...
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