Monthly Archives: August 2007
40 posts
I hope that we can do more of this. I am still waiting for an unnamed (because I still want to publish with them 😉 ) publisher to grant me permission to post some of my articles. “Hearing the Children’s Cries” Ten years ago I published my first article in […]
You may have noticed new, red, and dashed links on the blog. If you hover over them you will see Amazon ads. I am trying out their Contextual Links ads. I don’t think they will be too intrusive, but by all means give me your feedback. Unless you have customized […]
From the NTCS site: John Hobbins posted this article about Wikipedia and asks whether or not contributors to Targum.info and NTCS will also be making Wikipedia entries on Targum better as well. I personally would hope so. (See my comments here.) The NTCS Wiki will be controlled, with only registered […]
Another chat with my brother. We talked about Apple’s Safari browser and Leo Laporte‘s defense of the app. (Leo’s point: Safari is standards compliant. Steve’s point: even if IE/Firefox are not compliant, they display more sites correctly.) UPDATE: I ran the podcast through “Levelator” so the levels should be more…well, […]
Somehow I missed the fact that my good friend Dr. Richard Wright (Jim W. you need to get to know this fellow Baptist!) has started a very thoughtful blog. I should note that I have known Richard since we were at Cornell together and he taught me biblical Hebrew. (He […]
Interesting… Don’t call me a “hater” I am just looking for facts. DailyTech – Blogger Finds Y2K Bug in NASA Climate Data These graphs were created by NASA’s Reto Ruedy and James Hansen (who shot to fame when he accused the administration of trying to censor his views on climate […]
This is an amazing site. Shorpy: The 100-Year-Old Photo Blog No, it is not 100 years old but the photos on it are. And they are gorgeous. If you are a fan of photography or just history, set aside 30 minutes or more to go through these beautiful images. (And […]
If you are a fan of Macs and Apple products in general, you should also be a listener of MacBreak Weekly, a TWiT netcast. At the end of each podcast they give their software pics and now there is a site documenting them! From TUAW: MacBreak Weekly has a Picks […]
I know many in the biblioblogging world have been following this story. Today and ad came out in the NY Times with the signatures of over 300 presidents, including the presidents of my past and current institutions. The statement is on the American Jewish Committee’s website and reads, in part, […]