When we lived in England (over 10 years ago now) one of the things that I found so amusing was the almost amateurish looking political press conference. The main element of which was the big backdrop with the name of the party and the issue du jour repeated endlessly across […]
I am a root beer lover. I have never tried to make it, although tempting, but I love me a good, cold mug of root beer. The NY Times has a great article on this elixir of the gods. WHAT is it about root beer? Photo: Stacey Cramp for The […]
From the Chronicle of Higher Education News Blog: ACLU Complains About Noon-Meal Prayers at Naval Academy The American Civil Liberties Union announced today that it had asked the U.S. Naval Academy to discontinue its longstanding requirement that all midshipmen attend prayers at the daily noon meal. … In a letter sent […]
My brother put up this post the other day after I was showing him the power of Delicious Library. This is a fantastic app where you simply put your ISBN bar code of a book in front of your Mac’s camera and it reads it, searches Amazon, and reads out […]
I am watching BBC America news right now (and why on earth do we not simply have BBC international news?!) and they just ran a story on the conservative Anglican leaders meeting in Jerusalem this week prior to the Lambeth Conference and some have some rather dramatic comments.One story is […]
This is how technology and society should always work. I am sitting poolside while my daughter has swim practice. A company built a new building and moved in over the winter and last week announced that they are providing an open WiFi connection for us. Just ’cause. Awesome!
Others have noted this as well. I have to say that I think Akma’s comments and those on his post are a bit too harsh. Bishop N. T. Wright appeared on the Colbert Report the other day, and I have to say that this match-up didn’t bring out the best […]
No one is sure yet. But this week the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) is meeting in Jerusalem prior to the Lambeth Conference which is meeting in mid-July. The Pew Forum just ran an informative and helpful piece setting the issues into a demographic context. One of the major flashpoints […]