This is too funny not to share. (And for the record, poopy or no, I would love one of these new MacBooks). From TUAW: Thanks to what appears to be a character encoding problem on a French version of the Apple website, the MacBook announcement — meant to say “perfectly […]
Monthly Archives: October 2008
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Cathleen Falsani, the “God Girl” of The Dude Abides, offers a review of a new book by Andy Crouch, Culture Making. Andy was, in addition to everything else about him that Falsani says below, was a classmate of mine (or I of his) at Cornell. I haven’t read the book […]
This one is a bit rude but I offer it especially for our dear Dr. West. See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
I don’t often post my sermons here largely because while I write my sermons out they are not really meant to be read and are more like an detailed outline. This one is a little more complete but I particularly wanted to post it because I am interested in any […]
For this strip to make sense (which it never really does) you need to know that the gentleman in the suit is “Monty” who is, for lack of a better term, God. The gentleman in the overalls (or “coveralls” if you are from certain regions) is “Thorax” who “sells strange […]
The Economist has a short article on a new edition of the Talmud. I haven’t spent much time with this so I am not sure how it is revolutionizing Talmud study… For Orthodox Jews, lifelong study of the Talmud is the supreme religious precept. But for many earnest students through […]
In the absence of anything spiritually uplifting (or at least distracting) I offer this: Classic Album Art A friend just sent this to me and I had to share it. No comments necessary, just good, clean fun. Um. What he said.
Stephen Cook has a great series of discussions going on over at Biblishe Ausbildung regarding the above mentioned topic. I am working my way through it now and I think I am in agreement with Cook against Wrong. I have some thoughts on this topic and hope to share them […]
I watched this skit live and it was (in fact the whole episode) one of the funniest things SNL has done in a long time. (Tina Fey is great as Palin but I have never found her writing very funny. SNL has a long way to go to return to […]
From our beloved IOTS President Willem Smelik: Dear members of the IOTS and other interested parties, The IOTS has long discussed the desirability of new editions of (most of) the Targums. A first task, the collection of data on targumic manuscripts, has already started and has come to a promising, […]